1) Purpose & Non-Goals

Purpose

DecisionOps is a decision governance + lifecycle engine for architectural decisions. It treats decisions as system artifacts with:

• Enforced quality gates (Alternatives + trade-offs required)
• Finite state machine (FSM) lifecycle
• Immutable version history
• Audit trail (compliance-grade)
• Revisit engine to resurface decaying decisions
• Fast search using Postgres full-text search + indexes

Non-Goals (v1)

We intentionally do not build these in v1:

• Slack/Email notifications (v2)
• GitHub/Jira webhook ingestion (v2)
• Collaborative editing / real-time features (v2)
• Version diff UI (v2)
• RBAC/admin panel (v2) — Future / v2 Roadmap
• Elasticsearch / external search infrastructure (v2)
• Authentication and user accounts (Clerk / NextAuth / JWT) — intentionally omitted in v1 for a public demo; treated as a Future / v2 Roadmap concern

2) High-Level Architecture