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Snap Decision

SNAP DECISION · DECISION VELOCITY

Decisions in hours, not weeks.

Snap Decision compresses enterprise decision cycle time. It clarifies who decides what, removes approval theater, builds in pre-mortems and sets decision rituals for AI-era tempo, running alongside every other Mantle framework.

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$250M/yrlabor wasted on poor decision processes
1.98xfast decision-makers more likely to land high-quality decisions
37% / 61%exec time on decisions / share of that time wasted
Hoursto a defensible decision, not weeks

A Mantle framework

WITH SNAP DECISION

Every key decision has one owner, a ritual and a measured cycle time.

  1. 1Names who decidesDecision rights for the high-value, high-frequency calls first.
  2. 2Pressure-tests before committingPre-mortems surface the failure modes early.
  3. 3Measures and recalibratesLatency, quality and reversal rate, tracked for 90 days.
61%

say most of their decision-making time is used ineffectively

20%

say their organization excels at decision making

4 weeks

to roll one leadership team onto Snap Decision

DECISION RIGHTS

Who decides what, settled before it matters.

  • A decision-rights model adapted from RAPID (Recommend, Agree, Perform, Input, Decide), tuned for AI-era operations
  • Applied first to the high-value, high-frequency decisions
  • Long approval chains with no clear owner compressed to one accountable decider with explicit input rights
  • Four decision archetypes (big-bet, cross-cutting, delegated, ad hoc), each with its own ritual
  • Source line: RAPID is Bain & Company's decision-rights tool; archetypes per McKinsey (2019).
PRE-MORTEMS

Failure modes surfaced before the commitment.

  • A pre-mortem before every major decision: assumptions surface before they become commitments
  • A decision log with rationale, decider, dissenters and reversal criteria
  • A reversal protocol, built in rather than improvised
  • A meeting audit: recurring meetings checked for decision yield, high-cost and low-yield ones stopped
INSTRUMENTED

Decision speed and quality, measured, not estimated.

  • Time-to-decision instrumented, reported and recalibrated
  • Decision quality scored against outcomes, not process compliance
  • Mantle Counsel partners with leadership through the first 90 days
  • Quarterly recalibration after rollout
ACROSS THE CATALOG

One discipline that runs across every framework.

  • Rituals embed in Trajectory weeks, North Star refreshes, Litmus arcs, Spark builds and Lightning Build cadences
  • The only Mantle framework that runs across every other one, continuously
  • Accelerated work stops waiting on a decision-rights model built for a slower tempo
Quantified outcomes

From weeks of decision latency to hours, organization-wide.

Snap Decision is the cross-cutting discipline that lets every other framework actually compound — by removing the decision-rights bottleneck.

$250M/yr recoveredLabor wasted on poor decision processes at the average Fortune 500 (McKinsey)
1.98x decision qualityFast-and-good vs. slow decision-making (McKinsey, 2019)
2x financial returnsOn most recent major decision when speed + quality are both present (McKinsey)
6pp TSR premiumTop-quintile decision-effectiveness companies vs. peers (Bain, 10-year study)
$15M / 300K hoursWhat one recurring meeting cost one Fortune 500 (Bain) — Snap Decision kills these
37% → 15%Share of exec time consumed by decision processes after Snap Decision discipline
Hours, not weeksDecision cycle time for the bets that drive value
Pre-mortem standardFailure modes surfaced before commitment, not after
Cross-frameworkThe only Mantle framework that runs across every other, continuously

Compress the decision cycle. Let the rest of the catalog compound.

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