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The other three waysto make this decision.

Every option here can produce an answer. What separates them is whether you can check it six months later, and whether anything happens afterwards.

	Stride	A chatbot	A consultant	A blank document
Where the answer comes from
Reads your own documents	Yes	If you paste them	Yes	No
Every claim linked to its source	Yes	No	On request	No
Says when it is inferring	Yes	No	Sometimes	No
Available at 11pm	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Making the decision
Several options, scored	Yes	If you ask	Yes	No
Criteria set before the scores	Yes	No	Sometimes	No
Records what you chose and why	Yes	No	In the deck	If you write it
Still legible in six months	Yes	No	In the deck	If you write it
What happens next
Becomes a plan with owners	Yes	No	Yes	No
Tracks against the plan	Yes	No	No	No
Tells you when it drifts	Yes	No	No	No
Still there next quarter	Yes	No	If re-hired	No
What it costs you
Starts in an afternoon	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
Keeps your context between sessions	Yes	Within a chat	Yes	No
Works when you are not there	Yes	No	Yes	No

Where the others win

A comparison table that gives one column every tick is an advertisement, not a comparison. These are the cases where Stride is the wrong tool.

A chatbot is faster for a question with no stakes
If you want a definition or a first draft of an email, opening an initiative is a lot of ceremony for it.
A consultant brings judgement Stride does not have
Stride reads what your company wrote down. Somebody who has run the same decision at four other companies knows what nobody wrote down.
A blank document is better for thinking that has not settled
Structure helps once you know roughly what the question is. Before that it gets in the way.

Not when the answer arrives, but when somebody asks why you decided that and the reasoning is still there.