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Delayed Knowledge
Decisions made too late
The right information existed. It arrived after the window closed.
→ Deal slipped. Wrong hire. Preventable churn.
100 Days Building Authority AI
Every decision deserves the full picture.
Decision Infrastructure Research
An Exploration in Public
I'm exploring how startups can make better decisions by connecting knowledge across Slack, Notion, CRM systems, financial tools, project management platforms, and internal conversations. Authority AI is an ongoing research and product development project focused on decision infrastructure.
For years I've worked around the systems companies use to run revenue, operations, and decision-making.
The more I observed, the more I noticed the same pattern:
The answer already exists somewhere inside the company.
- A Slack thread.
- A Notion page.
- A CRM record.
- A spreadsheet.
- A conversation someone forgot to document.
The problem isn't missing knowledge.
The problem is that knowledge arrives too late, conflicts with itself, or never reaches the person making the decision.
Authority AI is my attempt to explore a different approach.
What I keep observing
Three patterns. One root cause.
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Incorrect Knowledge
Decisions made on stale data
Outdated pricing in a proposal. A conflicting figure from an old deck.
→ Confidence in the wrong number.
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Disconnected Knowledge
Decisions made in the dark
The answer was in the company. Sales knew it. A Notion page had it.
→ It never reached the person deciding.
What I'm prototyping
The shape of the system I'm building. None of this is shipped product. It's an active prototype.
0101/06
Capture
Decisions, financials, pipeline, blockers, team context, drawn from the tools companies already use.
0202/06
Schema
Knowledge organized by domain, not dumped into a search index.
0303/06
Source Truth
When Slack conflicts with Stripe, Stripe wins. Every answer knows which source to trust.
0404/06
Permissions
Financial data stays with founders. Engineering context reaches engineers.
0505/06
Retrieval
Sourced, cited answers, designed to surface where the decision is being made.
0606/06
Feedback
Every correction makes the system smarter.
Current Progress
A public engineering log.
Completed
- ✓FastAPI API
- ✓PostgreSQL
- ✓Knowledge Objects
- ✓Domain Classification
- ✓Role Permissions
- ✓Retrieval Engine
In Progress
- •Notion Integration
- •Slack Integration
- •Source Ranking
Planned
- ○Multi-source Knowledge Ingestion
- ○Feedback Learning Loop
- ○Knowledge Graph
- ○Company Brain Prototype
The Constitution
The intellectual foundation.
The principles guiding this exploration. Why I believe knowledge is the only thing that has ever separated a good decision from a bad one.
Read the Constitution"Knowledge is not a document problem.
Knowledge is an infrastructure problem."
From the Constitution, Article II
Community
Follow the Research
I'm documenting everything publicly as I explore decision infrastructure, company knowledge systems, and the idea of a company brain.
If you're a founder, engineer, operator, or researcher thinking about similar problems, I'd love to connect.