How EchoLogic turns notes and transcripts into a decision record

“Not sure yet if we should raise now or wait for stronger metrics.” Written in the Scratchpad, no whiteboard picked. When the typing pauses, Echo says what it's close to: the runway risk already on Series A Fundraising. File it there and it becomes an open question on that whiteboard.

The new question is checked against everything on record. A decision on a different whiteboard already addresses the same risk, so the two whiteboards are now connected — and a third, Mobile Redesign, joins them, because its timeline moved when the pricing test did.

The founder opens Series A Fundraising and asks Echo whether to raise now or wait. Echo answers from what the whiteboard already holds: Monday's question and the runway risk. It's saved there as they talk. When the founder settles on April, after the March numbers, Echo picks it out as a decision, linked to the words it came from, and the founder adds why while it's fresh.

On a separate whiteboard, Marketing's pricing test lands on usage-based tiers. Days later Finance locks in flat per-seat pricing for the same segment while building the budget. Contradiction Watch puts both sides next to each other, marked as contradicting, instead of letting either win silently. Finance records the decision that settles it on both whiteboards, and both originals stay on record.

When text isn't enough, the team lays it out on a Canvas: the timeline switched on, the runway risk connected to the pricing decision with the reasoning on the line, and the term sheet linked to the call it backs.

Marketing needs a tool to track the live pricing test. Anyone who can see the whiteboard can ask Tool Advisor. The answer is a tool, a fallback and the reasoning, saved as a decision on that whiteboard and listed with every other tool choice the team has made.

The resolved plan is shared with Finance and Marketing — read-only, department-scoped, nothing else on the whiteboard exposed. For anyone outside the company there's a public link to the clean record, set to expire when you choose.

Read access lets Finance see the plan, not change it, so the question goes on the whiteboard rather than into a thread nobody else will find. The owner keeps it, and from there it's checked against the record like any other thinking — still credited to whoever asked.

Nothing to dig for: the whiteboard, the Canvas, and the meeting where it was actually discussed all surface at once, scoped to exactly what they're allowed to see.

The Continuity Index has now seen this exact tension — simplicity vs. usage-based flexibility — three separate times. It doesn't just log another round; it flags the pattern, so this time the team moves on it instead of re-arguing it from scratch.