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CEA Project Decision Support Overview

A concise product record generated from the same canonical workflow and status sources as the Platform and Product Status pages.

Category and initial use

A CEA project decision system before material commitment.

The primary user is a CEA developer, sponsor or owner’s representative preparing feasibility, configuration or supplier-selection decisions.

Decision problem
Requirements, supplier claims, assumptions and calculations are reviewed in disconnected records.
Core result
A source-linked record of what is known, declared, calculated, assumed, unresolved and approved.

Initial workflow

Six steps from project baseline to decision record.

Establish the project baseline

Define context, constraints, owners and unresolved questions.

Capture source claims

Retain source, location, wording and version.

Map requirements and alternatives

Normalise comparable information and expose missing conditions.

Build design cases

Apply versioned calculations to explicit assumptions and ranges.

Review uncertainty and dependencies

Expose evidence status, sensitivity and stale dependencies.

Record the decision

Preserve rationale, reviewers, limitations and downstream requirements.

Four capability groups

One decision workflow, not eight independent modules.

Project baseline and requirements

Project context, constraints, responsibilities, gaps and validation questions.

Supplier evidence and configuration comparison

Source-linked claims, operating conditions, comparable values and clarification needs.

Scenario and decision analysis

Conditional design cases, versioned calculations, sensitivity and decision readiness.

Decision continuity

Reviews, rationale, dependencies, changed inputs and downstream requirements.

Evidence and uncertainty

A precise value is not automatically a verified fact.

Source origin, extraction confidence, evidence status, review status and real-world uncertainty remain separate.

AI
Assists bounded information tasks.
Calculations
Remain versioned and reproducible.
People
Approve consequential use within named scopes.

Current boundary

Project decision support—not live greenhouse control.

No public self-service, autonomous professional approval, guaranteed performance or operational digital twin is claimed.

Review current implementation before discussing access.

The Product Status page owns current implementation, limitations and validation boundaries.