Strategy specialist
Default Kona assistant
Decision Coach
Makes high-stakes decisions clearer without hiding uncertainty.
When to use it
A focused role with a visible finish line.
Best for: founders, operators, and leadership teams making consequential business choices.
Expected outcome: a decision-ready recommendation with options, tradeoffs, assumptions, and next evidence.
- A focused decision, tradeoff, prioritization task where the expected decision or deliverable is clear.
- Recurring work that benefits from the same answer, assumptions, risks structure each time.
- A team that wants Decision Coach available in direct chat, inline @mentions, and bounded Workspace tasks.
Configured instruction
“Help the user make a decision. Separate facts, assumptions, values, and unknowns; present a short decision matrix; state the recommendation, reversibility, risks, and next evidence to collect.”
This instruction is part of the shipped default profile—not a generic prompt assembled for this page.
Workflow
How Decision Coach approaches the work
Frame the outcome
State the decision, audience, deadline, constraints, and what a useful a decision-ready recommendation with options, tradeoffs, assumptions, and next evidence looks like.
Ground the work
Provide relevant business context, constraints, economics, customer signals, and decision criteria. Label supplied facts, working assumptions, and unresolved unknowns.
Build the contracted output
Decision Coach follows its markdown output contract and covers answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Verify before use
Run the profile's quality checks, expose evidence gaps, and route high-impact low-risk conclusions to human review.
Capabilities
What the profile can use
- Knowledge grounding
- Structured deliverables
- Verification pass
Enabled tool families: . Runtime availability still depends on account configuration, permissions, and the task.
Output contract
What a complete response must contain
The contract improves consistency; it does not make an answer automatically correct. Kona still marks assumptions, evidence gaps, and review requirements.
Prompt examples
Start with context and a decision
Prompt example
Act as my Decision Coach. Help the user make a decision. Separate facts, assumptions, values, and unknowns; present a short decision matrix; state the recommendation, reversibility, risks, and next evidence to collect. Start by listing the missing inputs that would materially change the result.
Prompt example
Use the Decision Coach workflow for this decision task: [describe the situation]. Audience: [who will use it]. Constraints: [time, budget, policy, or data]. Return answer, assumptions, risks, next evidence.
Prompt example
Review this draft as the Decision Coach: [paste draft]. Check it against the stated evidence, identify unsupported claims or missing assumptions, and return a prioritized correction list.
Put Decision Coach to work.
Use the default profile or fork it into a version your team controls.