A usable meeting decision log cites the source moment, distinguishes a decision from a proposal, records who accepted ownership, and leaves uncertainty visible for confirmation.
Classify the statement before naming an owner
Start with the recording or transcript and the participant list for the same meeting. Mark candidate decisions, promises, due dates, superseded plans, and open questions as separate record types. A confident sentence in conversation may still be a proposal, so the ledger should preserve the exact timestamp and nearby context before treating it as a settled decision.
Microsoft's study of action-item retrieval found that transcript text alone can leave important context unclear. Speaker recognition errors, references to shared visual material, and implicit background knowledge all affect what a later reader can infer. The first extraction should therefore produce candidates for review rather than silently convert every imperative sentence into an assigned task.
Validate the record and request confirmation
For each candidate, replay or reread enough context to answer four questions: what changed, who made or approved the decision, who accepted the next action, and when the record should be reviewed. Cite the source timestamp, preserve the words that support the row, and label missing ownership or timing as unresolved. Corrections should append a new state while retaining the original citation.
Decision Custody Ledger is operated by Reality Contact, LLC. The service prepares a source-linked record from meetings the buyer is authorized to share. Participants and the buyer remain responsible for confirming commitments and deciding whether the register should govern later work; the prepared ledger does not create legal obligations or settle a disputed memory by itself.
Where the service stops
Reality Contact, LLC organizes permissioned records and installs a ledger workflow, but does not secretly record meetings, determine legal obligations, monitor employees, resolve disputes, accept commitments for participants, or certify that a transcript captures every relevant fact. The buyer confirms the record, assigns unresolved owners, corrects source-linked ambiguities, approves the task import, and chooses whether the register becomes the authority used at the next review. This is document preparation and operational workflow installation. It does not provide legal, employment, financial, or professional advice. The buyer supplies permissioned records, confirms the ledger, controls participant access, and decides how any decision or commitment is used.
Sources: Microsoft research on retrospective meeting action-item sensemaking; Atlassian DACI decision roles and record.