Walk the Model Selection Gate

Decision pressure The team is comparing open models in a long Slack thread. One person argues benchmark rank. Another argues license. Another argues hosting cost. Nobody has said what commitment the decision will trigger. Without a decision frame, every metric becomes a weapon and no evidence is ever enough. Decision Quality Frame -> Alternatives -> Information -> Values -> Reasoning -> Commitment Use Decision Quality as a gate. Each step removes a common failure mode in open-source model selection: vague purpose, narrow options, weak evidence, unclear tradeoffs, sloppy reasoning, or no owner. Shortcut Pick the top leaderboard model and hope…

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