Decision Governance for financial institutions
Every consequential decision, made observably accountable.
DataVisuals is the Decision Governance Platform™. Named owner, structured rationale, supporting evidence, recorded outcome — produced as a system of record at the time of the decision, not reconstructed after an examiner asks.
30+
Years of FI risk & compliance experience behind the platform
10
Decision Governance workflows — nine operational, one apex
Days
Per-workflow onboarding. Self-serve from $99/mo.
Section 01 — The Category
A discipline that existing categories miss.
BI tells you what happened. GRC tells you what your policies are. Workflow tools route tasks. Data warehouses store the inputs. None of them produce a structured decision record — who owned this, what they decided, why, with what evidence, with what outcome.
Decision Governance, defined
The discipline of ensuring every consequential operational decision has a named owner, structured rationale, supporting evidence, recorded outcome, and an auditable trail — produced as a system of record at the time of the decision, not as a reconstruction exercise after the fact.
Where we sit
BI / Dashboards
We sit above BI.
BI shows you what happened. We govern what is decided about it. The dashboard becomes evidence on the decision record, not the end of the workflow.
GRC
We sit beside GRC.
GRC documents your policies and controls. We capture the decisions made under those policies — with structured rationale, named owner, and recorded outcome. The two systems answer different questions.
Workflow / BPM
We sit inside the workflow.
Workflow tools route the task. We govern the decision the task represents. The route is the wrapper; the decision is the record.
Data warehouse
We sit above the warehouse.
The warehouse stores the inputs. We capture the decisions made using them. Evidence flows up from the warehouse into the decision record automatically.
Section 02 — The Three Pillars
Three pillars. One outcome. Three buyers who hear them differently.
Decision Governance is heard differently by the CRO chasing accountability, by the General Counsel preparing for the next exam, and by the CEO trying to learn faster than the next cycle. The platform serves all three because the artifact — the decision record — is the same.
Pillar 01
Ownership
For the CRO chasing accountability.
Every consequential decision has a named owner on the record at the time of the decision. Aging, escalation, and override patterns are visible at portfolio level. The question “who owns this?” has an answer before someone has to go find one.
Pillar 02
Defensibility
For the General Counsel preparing for the next exam.
Rationale and supporting evidence captured as the decision is made. Examiner-grade reconstruction does not require a six-week sprint pulling files out of email. The record is the file the next examiner reads.
Pillar 03
Learning
For the CEO trying to learn faster than the next cycle.
Outcomes track back to the decisions that produced them. Override quality, cycle time, and apex linkage are measurable, not assumed. The institution learns from its own record instead of relitigating it.
Section 03 — The Decision Anatomy
The same five steps, across every workflow.
The load-bearing detail of the whole platform. Every workflow's records are structured data — exportable on demand for examiner review, audit reconstruction, or board reporting.
01
Signal
02
Owner
03
Decision
04
Action
05
Outcome
Section 04 — The Product
Ten Decision Governance Workflows. Nine operational, one apex.
Each workflow governs a class of consequential decisions. Operational workflows produce the structured evidence the apex workflow inherits. Pricing is per workflow; start with the one with the loudest pain.
Section 05 — The Decision Governance Index
A measurable benchmark for the category.
The Decision Governance Index (DGI) measures how well institutions govern their consequential decisions across five dimensions: ownership clarity, evidence completeness, decision cycle time, override quality, and apex linkage.
Published quarterly. Methodology open. The first benchmark publication that makes Decision Governance citable, comparable, and ours.
Section 06 — How to Start
Start with one workflow. Add as you go.
Per-workflow subscription is the entry point. Pick the workflow with the highest examiner exposure or the loudest internal pain, onboard in days, and add workflows as adoption proves out.
Per Workflow
$99–$149 /mo
Self-serve entry
Pick one workflow. Onboard in days.
Risk Bundle
$325 /mo
BSA + Compliance + 1
The two highest-exposure workflows plus one of your choice.
Enterprise
Custom
All ten + apex
All ten workflows + Strategic & Board. $3,500 onboarding.