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Decision Card

Decide First,
Write Second.

Jev answers three kinds of question — yes-or-no, which-one, how-much — for a fraction of a cent. This card is the whole method on one page.

↳ The three shapes, five copy-paste business questions, the four rules, and the log-row template.

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What's inside
Contents
01 The three shapesYes-or-no, which-one, how-much — the only questions Jev answers, with a real example of each
02 Five business questionsCopy-paste prompts for inbox, replies, hand-offs, drafts and recordings
03 The four rulesHardest step · under 0.5 is no opinion · state text is everything · not a fact-checker
04 The log rowThe one-line template that turns a tool into a system
How to use this

Print it or keep it open in a tab. Every page stands alone — but they're ordered, and the order is the method. The full guide this comes from is linked on every page.

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Jev · Decision Card
The $0.0002 yes-or-no AI

Decide first, write second.

Most of your AI calls are not writing problems. They are sorting problems — and sorting should cost almost nothing.

1
Is this…? → a number 0–1
"Is this email asking for a refund?" A real one scored 0.98. A thank-you note scored 0.01.
2
Which one? → a pick + confidence
"Reply today, this week, or never?" One of your three labels, and how sure it is.
3
How much? → a level on your scale
"Cosmetic, Minor, Major, Blocking?" A level, low to high, plus confidence.
Inbox triage
Which one
  • ✓Lead / client / vendor / noise
  • ✓One pick per email
  • ✓Before you read any of them
uncommon
Hand-off gate
Is this…?
  • ✓"Enough detail to act without asking me?"
  • ✓Yes → VA, contractor or agent
  • ✓No → stays with you
Recording review
Is this…?
  • ✓"Worth writing down?" per paragraph
  • ✓Turned 838 h of calls into notes
  • ✓Keep ≥ 0.7, skip the rest
What's on this card
3question shapes
$0.0002per question, my usage
0.98 / 0.01refund vs thank-you
4rules that keep it honest
The plain-English post behind the card
What Is Jev? covers the five uses, the mistakes and the FAQ. The technical post has the install and the code.
What Is Jev?
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Five business questions, copy and paste
Page 2 · Prompts
Write the question as one plain sentence. Hand Jev the text. Keep the number.
1 · Inbox triageWhich one: "Is this email a lead, a client, a vendor, or noise?" — one pick per email, before you open any of them.
2 · Reply timingWhich one: "Does this need a reply today, this week, or never?" — most of an inbox is never.
3 · Hand-off readinessIs this…: "Does this task have enough concrete detail for someone else to do it without asking me a question?" — under 0.5 it stays with you.
4 · Draft gatingIs this…: "Is this note ready to publish, or still thinking out loud?" — the gate before anything ships.
5 · Recording reviewIs this…: "Did the speaker just say something worth writing down?" — paragraph by paragraph over a transcript. Keep ≥ 0.7.
The four rules
Hardest stepWhen routing a job, describe its hardest step, not the average. A job rated easy on average sent to the cheap tier stops at the hard step and doesn't tell you.
Under 0.5 = no opinionA pick with confidence below 0.5 is not "probably". Keep your default. Never downgrade on a weak signal.
State text is everythingJev only knows what you show it. A missing field produces a confident wrong answer, not an error. If confidence jumps when you add a field, the first run was wrong.
Not a fact-checkerIt reads surface signals. "Is this summary faithful?" scored 0.38 on a faithful one. For judgement questions use a rubric score and test on twenty examples first.
The log row

| date | where it runs | shape | the question | result | what it saved | — one line per use, in one file. The next tool you build reads this file before it asks a model anything. A tool becomes a system when its decisions are written down where the next decision-maker will look.

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The one win

Hand one decision to a machine, on purpose

You already answer the same yes-or-no question dozens of times a week with your own attention. Jev is the cheapest attention you will ever hire — but only if you write the question down, test it on real examples, and log what it did.

  1. 1
    Pick one question you answer by hand ten times a week. Refund? Lead? Ready to hand off? Write it as one plain sentence.
  2. 2
    Run it on twenty real examples and look at the numbers. If the yeses sit above 0.7 and the nos below 0.3, it is ready. If not, add the field you left out of the state text.
  3. 3
    Write the log row. Date · where · shape · question · result · what it saved. The next tool you build reads it first.

One question stops costing you attention. Then the second one. The log is what compounds.

If that worked, here's the rest of it
FreeThe Creator VaultThe pre-wired system every guide plugs into. Ten-minute install. $297The Bridge KitThe four-zone AI rules, the publishing pipeline and the consolidation protocol, installed into your vault. By applicationThe Bridge InstallI build it with you in two to three weeks. Documented, handed over, yours. Two a month.
Frank Anaya
Former Senior Mentor in Tiago Forte's Building a Second Brain · 5× Praxis Fellow · fifteen years building systems for thinking
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