| DEC-001 | Project class is STANDARD. | MICRO (rejected: multi-component, multi-deliverable, external regulatory exposure — GOV-A1.9 would make it a mis-classification); STANDARD (chosen); MAJOR (credible: real legal and financial exposure, but doubles governance overhead for identical business content). | Not scored — this decision is reserved to Zaid by GOV-A1.8 and was taken by him at intake. | Zaid selected STANDARD on 2026-08-20. | If the business proceeds to actual registration, the project should be re-classified MAJOR, because a real regulatory submission carries the exposure that MAJOR class exists for. | GOV-A1.8 reserves classification to the project owner. Recorded rather than decided by the AI. | 2026-08-20 | Closed |
| DEC-002 | Legacy figures in the four prior working files are quarantined, not carried forward. | (a) Carry them forward and re-source later — rejected: GOV-F8.8 makes an unsourced figure a Class 1 defect, and carrying it forward launders it into the new baseline. (b) Delete them — rejected: GOV-D1.7 forbids destruction. (c) Move to 04_Inputs/legacy_unsourced with a defect raised — chosen. | Criteria fixed before assessment: preservation of the audit trail (40%), prevention of contamination of the new baseline (40%), effort (20%). | (a) 1/5, 5/5, 5/5 = 2.6. (b) 1/5, 5/5, 4/5 = 2.4. (c) 5/5, 5/5, 4/5 = 4.8. | Not close. Option (c) wins on both dominant criteria; no plausible reweighting flips it. | The prior files stated ASIC $636, audit $900-$15,000, '3-9 months' and a '$15,000-$30,000 budget' with no source, and predate the July 2026 mandatory registration regime and the 2026-27 price limits. They are retained as evidence of what was believed, not as inputs. | 2026-08-20 | Closed |
| DEC-003 | Recommended service model: SUPPORT COORDINATION, with core supports as a close second. | B1 Core supports (personal care and community participation); B2 Support coordination, optionally with plan management; B3 SIL/SDA supported accommodation. | WEIGHTS FIXED AND RECORDED AT 2026-08-20T09:40 AEST, BEFORE ANY ALTERNATIVE WAS SCORED (scores recorded at 2026-08-20T11:05 AEST): capital to first revenue 20%; time to first revenue 15%; regulatory stability through 2028 25%; margin resilience against sector evidence 20%; competitive intensity and ease of first client 10%; owner-operator fit 10%. | Scored 2026-08-20T11:05 AEST. B1 = 3.30. B2 = 3.70. B3 = 2.20. Full scoring matrix is in the study, section 7. | CLOSE — and Zaid must decide it, not the AI (GOV-B6.4). Raising the weight on regulatory stability from 25% to 40% flips the answer to core supports (B1 3.45 vs B2 3.40). The whole result turns on how heavily you weight the navigator restructure risk to support coordination against the July 2027 mandatory registration exposure to core supports. | Support coordination wins on capital, owner-operator fit and margin per hour, and its mandatory registration is currently paused. It loses on regulatory durability because the NDIS Review's navigator restructure targets the service line itself. Escalated to Zaid under GOV-B6.4 rather than decided. | 2026-08-20 | Parked-Zaid |
| DEC-004 | Registration strategy: trade unregistered from month one and register in parallel, targeting registration before July 2027. | A1 Register first, trade second. A2 Trade unregistered to plan-managed and self-managed participants from month one while the registration application runs in parallel. A3 Remain unregistered indefinitely. | WEIGHTS FIXED AND RECORDED AT 2026-08-20T09:40 AEST, BEFORE ANY ALTERNATIVE WAS SCORED (scores recorded at 2026-08-20T11:05 AEST): capital at risk before first revenue 30%; addressable market 25%; regulatory durability past July 2027 25%; operational burden 20%. | Scored 2026-08-20T11:05 AEST. A1 = 2.85. A2 = 4.05. A3 = 2.30. Full scoring matrix is in the study, section 6. | Not close for core supports: A2 leads A1 by 1.20 on a 5-point scale. The result would flip only if addressable market were weighted above about 55%, which would require agency-managed participants to be the only viable client base — the evidence does not support that. | A3 is eliminated on evidence rather than opinion: mandatory registration reaches personal care and daily living supports in July 2027 (SRC-015), so an unregistered core-supports business has a defined end date. A2 preserves cash while the four-to-six month verification pathway runs. | 2026-08-20 | Closed |
| DEC-005 | SIL/SDA is excluded from the recommended path for a first-time entrant. | (a) Include SIL as a candidate first business. (b) Exclude it now and revisit after two years of trading. (c) Exclude it permanently. | Scored inside DEC-003 on the same six weighted criteria. | B3 scored 2.20 against 3.70 and 3.30 — the widest gap in the trade study. | Not close. Even weighting margin resilience at 40% leaves SIL behind, because it loses decisively on capital, time to revenue and owner-operator fit. | Mandatory registration for SIL commenced 1 July 2026 (SRC-016), so there is no unregistered on-ramp; certification audit runs 9-12 months (SRC-021); and national SDA utilisation is 53.7% against a surplus of 4,638 places (SRC-050). Option (b), not (c) — the margin structure is genuinely the best of the three once scale exists. | 2026-08-20 | Closed |