Decision intelligence for design teams
The Intent Ledger turns project conversations into source-backed records of decisions, design intent, risks and actions, and builds a living Project Memory your team can return to.
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New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
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More studio floor vs. Larger review space
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1 risk · 1 unresolved
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Product walkthrough
A narrated walkthrough: project conversations become source-backed ILM Records, and those records build a Project Memory your team can return to.
Why this exists
Design direction is shaped in critiques, meetings, client calls, consultant conversations and handoffs. The final choice may survive, while the reasoning behind it becomes scattered across notes, transcripts and people’s memory.
The Intent Ledger keeps the reasoning attached to the decision.
How it works
Three steps, from the conversation where a decision was made to a record the project can return to.
Start with a conversation where design decisions were made: a recording, a transcript, meeting notes or an earlier critique.
“Okay, let's start with the stair. Did structure get back to us on the mezzanine tie-in?”
“Structure's confirmed. The stair can land directly on the existing mezzanine, no extra steel needed.”
The Intent Ledger analyses it into an ILM Record: a structured, source-backed record of what was decided, why, and what still needs resolving.
Decision
New stair confirmed to connect directly into the existing mezzanine.
Risk
South-facing curtain wall may still cause glare on the working studio floor without a shading strategy.
Commitment
Structural engineer to confirm loading feasibility for the mezzanine stair tie-in.
ILM Records accumulate into Project Memory, a living, dated record of how project direction was formed.
The method behind it. ILM stands for Intent-Led Memory: keeping the intent behind each decision, not only the decision itself.
What an ILM Record keeps
Each ILM Record organises one conversation into the parts of a design decision that usually go missing.
What changed.
Extend along the eastern riverbank edge rather than infill the courtyard.
Why it changed.
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
What still needs resolution.
South-facing curtain wall may cause glare on the working studio floor.
What people agreed to do.
Structural engineer to confirm loading feasibility for the mezzanine stair tie-in.
Where the finding came from.
Every finding links back to the exact quote it came from.
Source evidence
Each finding in an ILM Record carries the quote it came from. When a conversation leaves a question open, the record keeps it visibly open instead of tidying it into a false answer.
A decision, with its source
Decision· High
Pre-weathered zinc confirmed as the primary cladding material.
The client reviewed both options and confirmed zinc, resolving the earlier cladding contradiction.
SourceClient Material Review · 6 Mar
“Let's go with the zinc. That's the one we actually approved.”
High confidence
A question the conversation left open
Open question· Medium
Whether the ground-floor café use requires a separate accessible entrance is still being confirmed.
A late-stage programme addition (a small ground-floor café) raised an access question not yet resolved with the client.
Recommendation
Confirm with the client and check against accessibility requirements before the next review.
Moderate confidence
Source
“If the café's open to the public, does it need its own entrance separate from the studio?”
Project Memory
Individual ILM Records accumulate into Project Memory: a living, dated record of how project direction was formed over time. Decisions, risks, actions and open questions stay connected to the conversations that produced them.
Conversations analysed, in order
3 Feb
Concept Coordination Kickoff
19 Feb
Structural Feasibility Check-in
6 Mar
Client Material Review
24 Mar
Facade and Programme Coordination Review
Where the project stands now
Project context1 item
The expansion should read as quiet infrastructure, deferring to the existing riverside pavilion.
Direction and decisions3 items
Extend along the eastern riverbank edge rather than infill the courtyard.
Delivery and actions2 items
Update cladding specification and reissue elevations with the zinc panel module.
Commitments and outcomes1 item
Structural engineer to confirm loading feasibility for the mezzanine stair tie-in.
Interrupts the current flow
Risk · raised in 3 sessions
South-facing curtain wall may still cause glare on the working studio floor without a shading strategy.
Open question
Whether the ground-floor café use requires a separate accessible entrance is still being confirmed.
Who it’s for
Critique, coordination or client review: the problem is the same. The reasoning behind a decision doesn’t survive the meeting.
The Intent Ledger keeps the design principle and the critique that shaped it, connected across every review.
Used forTutor, critique and jury conversations.
It keeps commitments, actions and the risks behind them tied to the conversation that produced them.
Used forCoordination calls and consultant check-ins.
It turns client conversations into a dated record a studio can return to.
Used forClient reviews and approvals.
Project data
Private and account-scoped.
Findings retain their evidence.
See exactly how information is handled.
Start
Bring a recording, a transcript, meeting notes or earlier critiques. Your first 3 ILM Records are free, with no credit card required.
Need more later? Record packs and monthly plans are on the pricing page.
Early access. Tested with early design teams and students.
Accepted sources
Audio recording
Transcribed for your review before analysis.
Transcript
Pasted and reviewed before analysis.
Meeting notes
Notes, minutes or a summary.
Earlier critiques
Past discussions, imported as project history.
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