Definition
A Decision Ledger is an auditable action record. A Decision Receipt can capture the relevant context, decision, tool/action, approval, result, correction and outcome for important workflows.
Technology
Decision Ledger and Decision Receipts
Decision Ledger is MarketIQX's governance pattern for recording important AI-assisted actions, approvals, corrections and outcomes without exposing private model reasoning.
AI prepares action
Risk and confidence check
Low riskExecute within permission
Higher riskHuman approval: send, edit, or reject
Record outcome and correction
How it works
- Capture the business context and requested action.
- Record policy checks, approvals, tool calls and outcomes.
- Link human edits or rejections to future corrections.
- Avoid storing private hidden model reasoning as if it were an audit artifact.
When to use it
- AI prepares external actions.
- Humans approve, edit or reject outputs.
- The workflow requires accountability.
- A future reviewer needs to understand what happened.
When not to use it
- Low-risk draft exploration.
- Purely internal brainstorming with no operational action.
- Workflows with no durable business consequence.
Technical constraints
- Receipts should be concise.
- Private data needs minimisation.
- Audit logs must not become chain-of-thought capture.
Security and governance
- Approval records
- Action provenance
- Correction history
- Outcome records
- Access control
Related MarketIQX work
- Anika approval workflow
- MarketIQX governed autonomy architecture
FAQs
Do Decision Receipts store chain-of-thought?
No. The public pattern is about auditable action records, not exposing private hidden model reasoning.