Getting started
What is Learning Nodes?Learning Nodes is a collaborative decision workspace where Business Questions are turned into validated, accountable Decision Records — using guided workflows, evidence, approvals, and a clear audit trail.The Decision ProblemYour organization makes decisions every day, but the reasoning behind them often disappears. When the same question returns next quarter, you start from scratch. When the analyst who did the work leaves, their reasoning leaves with them.This is decision decay — and it's expensive.Learning Nodes solves this by turning messy analysis into durable, defensible, shareable decision records. Every decision stems from a Business Question. Every decision is traceable. Every decision can evolve without losing history.The Golden PathThe workstation follows a simple three-phase workflow:1. ASK — Define your Business Question with constraints and attach evidence sources.
2. DECIDE — Inspect data, run checks, build evidence, and commit your decision with confidence and rationale.
3. ACTIVATE — Share the Decision Record, link related decisions, correct decisions over time, and build organizational memory.
Who is Learning Nodes for?Are you a business analyst who needs to make better decisions with clear accountability?Learning Nodes helps teams that:Re-litigate the same questions quarter after quarterLose critical reasoning when analysts leave or change rolesNeed defensible audit trails for compliance or stakeholdersWant to build on past decisions rather than starting from scratchKey ConceptsBusiness QuestionThe anchor of every decision. A clear, answerable question that drives the ASK → DECIDE → ACTIVATE workflow. Examples: "What is our customer churn rate?" or "Should we expand into the European market?"ConstraintsThe guardrails that shape how a question gets answered. Scope ("UK market only"), timeframe ("last 30 days"), data rules ("exclude weekend data"), compliance notes ("must follow GDPR"), and stakeholder approvals ("signed off by CFO").SourcesEvidence attached to a question — CSV uploads, pasted text (emails, meeting notes), plain text files, or database connections. Sources can be attached to multiple questions and inspected during DECIDE.Decision RecordThe frozen, shareable artifact created when you commit a decision. Contains the question, locked constraints, evidence summary, approval chain, answer, and linked data assets. Read-only and defensible.Decision NetworkA directed acyclic graph (DAG) showing how decisions relate. Decisions can reference prior decisions as context, or supersede prior decisions when they replace them. Visualized in the Question Debt Dashboard.AI? Optional.The product works fully without AI. When Elen AI arrives (Phase 2), it will suggest constraints, surface similar questions, and detect contradictions — but humans remain accountable for every decision.The Marketplace ConnectionLearning Nodes also includes a Data and Tools Marketplace where validated Data Assets can be listed, discovered, and monetized. Decision quality leads to data quality — and quality data has value.Getting StartedStart with one recurring question that frustrates you. Run it through ASK → DECIDE → ACTIVATE. See the difference.