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Stage 3 of 5  ·  Decide

Our recommendation. Your decision.

Your Technology Advisor reads the tested evidence, weighs the alternatives and makes a recommendation, with the reasoning attached, and answers for it. Then you decide.

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Approve it, question it or decline it. Once approved, it is the direction Execute works from, and what everything after it is checked against.

Decision · AwardSample data

Connectivity, all 48 locations

Your Technology Advisor recommends

Provider B

Reasoning
Meets the Site Standard at all 48 locations. Resolves the three sites the Benchmark flagged.
Alternatives weighed
Incumbent, renegotiated · Provider C
Rests on
Baseline · Site Standard · three responses, one scope

You decide

  • Approve
  • Ask a question
  • Decline
Approved
Provider B
Approved by
Client operations lead14 Mar 2026, 10:42

Carried to ExecuteImplementation plan opened from this decision

The recommendation

A recommendation someone answers for.

NarrowGateX holds relationships across the technology market. Where a provider pays NarrowGateX a fee, we disclose it to the client in writing. It does not change the recommendation.

  1. 01Reads the evidence.What the Baseline established and the Benchmark tested, gaps included.
  2. 02Weighs the alternatives.The incumbent's terms among them. Changing provider is never the default.
  3. 03Recommends, or sets out the tradeoffs.When the choice is genuinely yours to weigh, it says so.
  4. 04Attaches the reasoning.Written on the decision it supports.

Your Technology Advisor recommends.You decide.

An approval is recorded with who gave it and when. No AI worker makes the recommendation or the decision.

What the decision controls

This is what Execute works from.

  1. Approved direction
  2. Implementation planOpened from the approved decision, with the selected provider's terms.
  3. AgreementChecked against what was selected. Differences raised before signature.
  4. ImplementationStarts once the agreements are signed.

Where the market is tested first, that happens in Execute, and the responses come back here before the award.

The cycle
  1. Baseline
  2. Benchmark
  3. Decide
  4. Execute
  5. Govern

Next, Execute carries out the direction you approved. See how execution works

Govern keeps the Baseline current, and the cycle starts again.

Every recommendation starts from the record.

The Baseline is where the evidence comes from.

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