Decision Memory
Decision memory is Nairo’s longer-term direction to help insurance teams preserve useful reasoning from review work.
The idea is simple: insurance teams should be able to understand not only what was produced or decided, but also which materials, logic and human judgment informed the work.
Decision memory is a product direction. It is not a single shipped module today.
Why decision memory matters
Insurance organisations often lose valuable context when reasoning is not captured clearly.
This can happen when:
- Expert reasoning stays in emails, documents or individual memory
- A manual correction is made but the reason is not recorded
- Similar cases are reviewed differently with little visible explanation
- A team needs to reconstruct why something happened after the fact
- New team members cannot easily understand prior review logic
Over time, Nairo aims to help teams retain useful review logic more systematically.
That capability is not fully available today.
What exists today
Nairo provides building blocks that can support review and traceability, depending on the workflow and configuration.
These include:
- Citations and references in supported Assistant and review outputs
- Structured extractions in Projects and Insight Table where configured
- Conversation history where supported
- Draft outputs, notes or deliverables generated during review
- Manual correction of certain extracted values where the product supports editing
These capabilities can help teams review and organise work, but they do not yet constitute a full decision-memory store, precedent system or immutable audit log.
Current limitation
Today, teams should not assume that Nairo automatically captures every decision, override, rationale or approval.
If a team needs a specific decision record, rationale note or approval trail, that should be defined as part of the team’s own workflow and governance process.
Nairo can support the work, but the organisation remains responsible for deciding what must be recorded, reviewed and retained.
Product direction
A fuller decision memory capability would help teams retain useful review logic, corrections, rationale and validated outputs in a more systematic way.
Over time, this could help organisations:
- Reuse prior review logic more consistently
- Understand why outputs were corrected
- Preserve expert reasoning before it is lost
- Prepare audit or management review materials more efficiently
- Build a more durable organisational knowledge base around insurance work
This is product direction, not a claim that all of these capabilities are available today.
How teams should work today
Teams using Nairo today should treat decision memory as a direction and design their workflows accordingly.
Practical steps include:
- Use Projects or Insight Table for review work that needs more structure
- Review citations and source materials before relying on an output
- Keep important notes, memos or outputs where the team’s process requires it
- Record correction or override rationale in the organisation’s own governance process
- Define which outputs must be retained before a case or review is closed
What decision memory is not
Decision memory is not automatic today.
It is not a replacement for formal records management, compliance archives or regulatory reporting systems.
It does not mean every Assistant message becomes institutional memory.
It does not mean every output is approved, validated or audit-grade by default.
Human review and organisational governance remain required.
Related areas
- Core Concepts - how to review outputs and materials
- Projects - focused document workspaces
- Insight Table - structured review across many documents
- Actions - repeatable tasks with defined outputs
Getting started
Start with one workflow, such as underwriting review or policy comparison, and define which outputs your team wants to retain.
Then decide where those outputs should live in your current process.