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Decision dashboard
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Dashboard
Decision dashboardSee what needs attention and where to work next.
Stage 1 of 7
Name the decisionState the concrete choice that requires ethical judgment.
Field instrument
Make ethical reasoning visible, traceable, and revisable.
STEWARD helps teams examine who benefits, who carries the burden, what consent means, which harms remain possible, and what professional duties still need an owner.
DeliberateMonitorBaselinePublish
No ethics score.
Ethical conflicts are not reducible to one number. STEWARD preserves competing duties, unresolved burdens, dissent, uncertainty, and conditions for revisiting a decision.
Decision readiness
Not ready
STEWARD is checking named readiness conditions, not calculating an ethics score.
Review required
Time sensitive0 due
No overdue reviews or commitments.
Since approved baselineNo baseline
Create an approved baseline to track ethical change.
Recommended next actionFrame the decision
State the concrete choice and evidence boundary.
Named conditions
Decision readiness gates
Active patterns
Context prompts
Workspace history
Recent ethical change
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Stakeholders mapped
People, communities, institutions, and environments.
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Open concerns
Impacts with meaningful residual uncertainty.
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Unresolved obligations
Duties without a complete response or owner.
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Options considered
Including restraint, delay, redesign, or refusal.
Recommended workflow
1
Frame the decision
Separate evidence, assumptions, judgment, authority, and constraints.
2
Map and engage affected parties
Identify unequal exposure, weak voice, accessibility needs, testimony, and commitments.
3
Trace claims to evidence
Preserve counterevidence, stale sources, unsupported claims, and assumptions.
4
Analyze impacts and duties
Show who benefits, who carries burdens, and which obligations conflict.
5
Compare alternatives and safeguards
Include refusal and prefer structural controls over warnings or vigilance.
6
Deliberate and document
Name dissent, unresolved duties, conditions, accountability, and review triggers.
Current ethical tensions
Decision frame
Define the actual decision, its boundaries, its owners, and the claims that need evidence.
Decision record
Observation
Evidence
Assumption
Judgment
Stakeholders
Map direct, indirect, future, and environmental stakeholders. Pay special attention to high exposure and low influence.
Add stakeholder
Stakeholder engagement
Record what affected parties actually said, what was promised, what remains unanswered, and whether the process offered consent, consultation, notification, representation, or merely compliance.
These relationships are not interchangeable. Notification is not consultation. Consultation is not consent. Representation is not proof of agreement. Legal compliance alone does not establish legitimacy.
Add engagement event
Add commitment
Evidence and claims
Build a traceable evidence register, link claims to supporting and contradictory sources, and keep assumptions visible.
Add evidence source
Add claim
Distributed impacts
Record benefits, burdens, harms, safeguards, and uncertainty by ethical domain. Do not hide distribution behind an average.
Add impact
ObservationEvidenceAssumptionJudgment
Professional duties
Track duties from codes, law, policy, standards, contracts, public commitments, and the responsibilities of professional judgment.
Professional duty prompt library
These prompts support analysis. They do not replace the actual governing code, law, or standard.
Add obligation
Obligation conflict view
Conflicts must be explained and managed, not averaged away.
Options
Compare meaningful alternatives, including delay, reduced scope, redesign, independent review, or not proceeding.
Add option
Alternatives comparison
Comparison remains qualitative. No weighted ethics total is calculated.
Safeguards and controls
Use the strongest feasible control. Track ownership, verification, dependencies, residual burdens, and what happens when a safeguard fails.
Safeguard hierarchy
1EliminateRemove the hazard, burden, collection, or unethical use entirely.Strongest
2SubstituteUse a less harmful approach, material, process, or data practice.Strong
3RedesignChange the architecture or workflow so the burden is structurally reduced.Preferred
4Technical controlInterlocks, isolation, minimization, encryption, automation, and enforced limits.Technical
5Procedural controlRules, approvals, audits, retention schedules, and operating procedures.Administrative
6Train or warnNotices, training, labels, disclosures, and instructions.Weaker
7Individual behaviorDepend on vigilance, memory, personal protective action, or good intentions.Weakest
Add safeguard
Deliberation and rationale
Record the reasoning that survives review, including what remains unresolved and what would force the team to revisit the decision.
A defensible rationale is not the same as certainty.
Record dissent, residual risks, and obligations that continue after approval.
Review sessions
Capture the evidence considered, who participated, and what the group actually discussed.
Add review session
Objections and minority views
An objection remains visible even when the decision proceeds.
Add objection
Checkpoints and signoffs
Record conditional approval, objections, conflicts, recusals, and expiration dates.
Add checkpoint
Monitor and revisit
Track what happened after the decision, verify safeguards, and reopen the analysis when the real system departs from the approved one.
This decision has been reopened.
New evidence, incidents, scope changes, or failed safeguards require renewed deliberation.
0Active indicators
0Reviews due
0Threshold breaches
0Open events
Ethical monitoring plan
Indicators are prompts for attention, not a replacement ethics score.
Add monitoring indicator
Events, complaints, and changes
Record incidents, secondary uses, scope expansion, stakeholder feedback, and unexpected consequences.
Add event or change
Baselines and change history
Freeze reviewable snapshots, compare revisions, and preserve why the decision changed.
Baselines do not erase uncertainty. They preserve what was believed, approved, unresolved, and required at a particular point in time.
Create decision baseline
Lineage
Each baseline points to the snapshot it followed.
Baseline history
Restoring a baseline first creates a safety snapshot of the current workspace.
Compare revisions
Compare facts, assumptions, options, duties, safeguards, monitoring, and rationale without producing a score.
Stakeholder maps
Influence runs left to right. Exposure runs bottom to top. The upper left is the ethical blind spot: high exposure with little influence.
Consent posture
Meaningful consent possible
Constrained or consultation only
Absent
Not assessed or not applicable
Accessible alternative
Stakeholder map table
| Stakeholder | Influence | Exposure | Benefit | Burden | Representation | Consent | Attention |
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Review the upper left quadrant first.
Use each map to inspect unequal exposure, burden distribution, weak representation, and stakeholders who cannot meaningfully control the decision.
Ethics brief builder
Create an executive brief, full assessment, deliberation record, monitoring report, or public transparency summary.
Included sections
Redaction is a publication aid, not a security control. Review exported material before sharing it outside the decision team.
Relationship inspector
Follow a record across stakeholders, evidence, impacts, duties, safeguards, deliberation, monitoring, and decision history.
Choose a record to inspect its decision context.
Global archive
Search all historical records in one place. Archived material stays out of active analysis, maps, readiness gates, and reports unless explicitly included.
Patterns and reasoning checks
Use contextual patterns to ask better questions, then examine common ways ethical reasoning becomes distorted, incomplete, or too convenient.
Prompts and signals, not moral automation. Patterns do not supply conclusions. Failure-mode signals are heuristic review prompts, not findings, violations, or scores. A human reviewer must investigate and document each disposition.
Activate a pattern to begin a structured contextual review.
Reasoning quality
Ethical failure-mode scanner
Signals identify conditions worth examining. No signal means only that the current rule did not detect one.
Create a project-specific pattern
Local library
Custom patterns
Settings and recovery
Accessibility, storage recovery, import validation, relationship repair, and complete decision-package controls.
Accessibility and display
Keyboard access Press / to search, Escape to close drawers or search results, and use standard Tab and Shift+Tab navigation throughout the workbench.
Workspace integrity
Repair scope Automatic repair removes broken identifier links and supplies missing stable IDs. It never resolves an ethical tension or alters substantive findings.
Safety backups
STEWARD retains a small set of local safety snapshots before imports, demonstration replacement, baseline restoration, and periodic autosave checkpoints.
Decision package
Exports include schema and integrity metadata so another STEWARD workspace can validate the package before import.
Local first No workspace data is transmitted by STEWARD. Files leave the browser only when you explicitly export them.