Supersession becomes legible when every replacement points to the prior decision, carries its own effective date and source, and leaves the earlier record intact.
Give every decision a stable record
Assign each accepted decision a stable identifier, a concise statement, the source meeting and timestamp, the approving role, the effective date, and the work it affects. Keep questions and proposals outside the accepted state until the named authority confirms them. Atlassian's DACI play similarly separates the driver, approver, contributors, and informed participants so a group can see who owns which part of the decision process.
When a later meeting changes the plan, create a new row. Add a supersedes link to the prior identifier and state whether the replacement is complete, partial, or temporary. The old row remains searchable with its original source and active date range. This lets a reviewer understand why a team followed the earlier instruction before the replacement took effect.
Carry the change into commitments
A changed decision can invalidate tasks without canceling them automatically. Review each open commitment linked to the prior plan and assign a disposition: continue, revise, close, or return to an owner. Preserve the disposition source and the person who confirmed it. This avoids a register that records strategic change while the connected task system continues executing the superseded state.
Decision Custody Ledger links these records for the buyer through Reality Contact, LLC. The register is evidence of what the supplied meetings support, not an independent ruling about authority or obligation. Buyers and participants confirm ownership, choose the effective state, and decide how to handle conflicts, private topics, personnel matters, and records outside the agreed meeting series.
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: Atlassian DACI decision framework; Microsoft research on extracting meeting actions and context.