decision

ComparisonCanvasStructure

The verdict slide — one chosen path, named explicitly.

Variant

Use after a comparison slide to land the decision. The justifications render as one unified categorical strip — co-equal cards that together signal a single resolved verdict; the heading carries the decision, not a focal/subordinated split.

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When to use

Land the verdict. Follows a comparison slide to make the chosen path unambiguous. The heading carries the verb of the decision; the cards substantiate it.
Two to four justifications. Each card is one short rationale — the chosen path first, then a Why-not card for each rejected alternative. More than four crowds the horizontal strip.
After the comparison. Pair with compare-prose or split-compare upstream — that slide does the weighing, this slide lands the answer. Reaching for decision without a prior comparison reads as edict.

When not to use

No clear chosen path. If the cards don't resolve to a single verdict, the slide is back to being a comparison. Use compare-prose or split-compare; reserve decision for the resolved call.
Long body per card. Each card is one sentence of rationale. Paragraphs belong on the comparison slide upstream, not on the verdict slide.
Generic heading. The h2 carries the decision verb — Build, not buy. Adopt the framework. Pause the rollout. A heading like Next steps wastes the focal real estate.

Common mistakes

Reordering justification cards, expecting their categorical accent color to travel with the same justification. The accent color is assigned purely by card POSITION (an nth-child cycle through the categorical palette), not by content — reordering cards in the markdown reassigns colors; they don't follow the justification.
Manually bolding the option name with **…**. The lead text auto-lifts to <strong> (the corner-tag CSS keys off it), and the lift step already skips an already-bolded lead — a manually bolded lead and a plain one produce byte-identical output. Wrapping it yourself is a harmless no-op, not a defect, but it's also unnecessary — write plain text and let the lift handle the weight.

Authoring

<!-- _class: decision -->

## What we are doing.

- Chosen path
  - One-line rationale for the decision.
- Rejected option
  - One-line rationale for why this didn't fit.

Slots

Slot	Selector	Required	Description
`title`	`h2`	yes	Slide heading framing the decision.
`options`	`ul > li`	yes	List items. Authoring contract: a top-level bullet is the option name (renders bold by default); an indented bullet underneath carries the short rationale. The cards render as a unified strip of co-equal categorical tags; the verdict is carried by the heading, not by emphasizing one card.

Anatomy

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  header                                 │
│            Decision heading.            │
│                                         │
│  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  ┌─────────┐  │
│  CHOSEN       Option B     Option C     │
│  rationale    rationale    rationale    │
│  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  └─────────┘  │
│                                         │
│  footer                           1/19  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Variant decision rule

default (no modifier) — The reasoning carries the weight — a quiet corner tag labels each justification without competing with the verdict heading.
banner-tag — The camp or stance itself is worth headlining — converts the quiet corner tag into a full-width banner strip per card.

Variants

`banner-tag` — banner-tag

Headlines each card with its camp.

<!-- _class: decision banner-tag -->

## banner-tag headlines each card with its camp.

- DECIDE
  - The banner carries the stance; the body carries the reason.
- RECORD
  - Use when the slide is the decision log's public face.

Explore in Playground

compare-prosethe comparison slide that should precede decision
split-comparecomparison and verdict on one slide instead of two
closingthe deck ends without a single-call verdict
big-numberthe decision is a quantitative commitment