Cider House Tools

Practical control systems for consequential AI-assisted work.

Generative AI makes it easy to keep moving. Cider House Tools is developing practical systems that help people preserve the objective, evidence, assumptions, branches, and authority behind important decisions.

Introducing
Pro Decider

A decision-control workspace for keeping complex AI-assisted work understandable, reviewable, and under human control.

Product

Pro Decider

Pro Decider is an early decision-control workspace designed for consequential, multi-step work with generative AI.

It helps users keep known facts, working assumptions, open questions, indicators, decision branches, and recommendation status distinguishable while a decision develops.

Known Facts

Record information currently treated as established for the decision.

Working Assumptions

Keep necessary but unverified beliefs visible instead of allowing them to quietly become facts.

Open Questions

Preserve unresolved issues that could change the direction or readiness of the decision.

Decision State

Track branches, indicators, recommendation readiness, and what still prevents the decision from moving.

Pro Decider supports human judgment. It does not claim to replace judgment, automatically verify every fact, or guarantee a correct outcome.

The Problem

AI makes continuation easier than judgment.

Long AI sessions can accumulate momentum quickly. Assumptions begin to sound established. Implementation details replace the original objective. New branches appear faster than they can be evaluated. A polished recommendation can arrive before the evidence is ready.

Pro Decider is being developed around a simple principle:

Protect the decision from unsupported momentum.

Objective Drift

The work keeps moving, but the original objective becomes less visible.

Assumption Creep

Unverified ideas gradually begin to function like settled facts.

Premature Recommendation

The system produces an answer before the unresolved evidence has been properly cleared.

What Makes It Different

Built for decision control, not more conversation.

Not another chatbot

Pro Decider is designed to organize and control decision state rather than simply generate more text.

Not just a better prompt

The difficult part often begins after the prompt, when branches, assumptions, and recommendations start accumulating.

Not automatic judgment

The system is intended to support deliberate human authorization, not pretend that important decisions can be safely delegated without review.

Current Stage

Current Stage

Founder testing and beta preparation

The operating framework and initial decision workspace are established. Current work is focused on real-world founder testing, product refinement, cost and usage analysis, public explanation, and preparation for a controlled private beta.

  1. 1
    Founder testing
  2. 2
    Workflow refinement
  3. 3
    Controlled private beta
  4. 4
    Evidence-led commercialization
Founder

Built from an operator's problem

Founder
Keith Hamm

Pro Decider grew out of a practical problem: complex AI-assisted work can move faster than the objective, evidence, or authority behind it.

The first working system was built to help the founder manage real business, product, research, and operating decisions before asking anyone else to trust it with theirs.

The product is being developed from an operator's perspective: use it on real work, find where it fails, and improve it before making broad claims.

Contact

Follow the development

Cider House Tools is establishing its public presence while Pro Decider remains in founder testing and beta preparation.

For now, inquiries may be directed to the founder.

Contact the Founder