# Decision Model **Entity class:** AI model class **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Automation **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition A decision model produces a bounded categorical, numerical, ranked, or binary output instead of an open-ended generated response. ## Mechanism and significance For routing, fraud detection, database classification, interface control, and other micro-decisions, this narrower output can be faster, cheaper, and easier to validate than a general reasoning model. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Model Architecture and Compute Economics|Model Architecture and Compute Economics]] - **Primary fields:** [[Machine Intelligence]] · [[AI Infrastructure]] · [[Compute Race]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Embedding Model]] · [[Reinforcement Fine-Tuning]] · [[System 1 Machine Intelligence]] · [[System 2 Machine Intelligence]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > Organizations make thousands of small decisions—route this ticket, approve this exception, choose this supplier, escalate this transaction. Using a large reasoning model for each one is like convening the Supreme Court to choose a supermarket line. Cheap decision models can collapse the cost of micro-coordination while reserving deep reasoning for strategy. > **— Adapted from Salim Ismail**, *MOONSHOTS Live, October 2026* [[reminders/AI Economy/Cheap Decision Models Can Collapse the Cost of Organizational Coordination by Salim Ismail|Cheap Decision Models Can Collapse the Cost of Organizational Coordination by Salim Ismail]]