Nothing to paste? — a senior engineer weighing an outside offer against a counteroffer and the option to keep interviewing, with real numbers, a vesting cliff, a re-org rumor and a deadline. Or , rendered from a saved reply with no run and no charge.
Paste the situation, not a summary
The background, the numbers, the quotes, the deadline. List the options one per line — including “do nothing” when it is real. If you have criteria and scores, the matrix calculator runs in your browser, free, no sign-in.
Say what you optimize for
Money and low regret owe different answers, and so do a two-week deadline and an open-ended one. The stance is called honestly: a clear call, a close call, a toss-up — or the finding that the options as posed hide the real decision.
Read what tips it first
The call is argued from your own page, the matrix shows its arithmetic, reversibility is named on the one-way-door test, and every risk on the recommended path carries a mitigation or an early-warning sign.
What does a run cost?
Runs are metered: the meter next to the button shows what is reserved for the run before you press it, and the figure under the result is what was actually charged, which is usually far lower. The weighted decision-matrix calculator is free and needs no sign-in - it runs entirely in your browser and nothing you type into it leaves the page. If your balance is below the reserve, the button is disabled and the shortfall is shown before you submit rather than after.
Will it just tell me what I want to hear?
The stance is called across five levels - Clear call, Close call,
Toss-up, Needs more information and Reframe the decision -
and the app checks the verdict against your own page rather than trusting it. If the call
names an option you never listed, disagrees with your matrix winner, claims a clear call
while your own arithmetic puts the top two within half a point, or reports high confidence
under a stance that declines to separate the options, the app says so above the result and
does not paint the verdict green.
What if I want to change a weight and run it again?
That is the normal path. Past runs are kept on your SkillSafe account with the inputs that produced them - the paste, the options, the context and the criteria and scores - so you can reopen an earlier run, change one weight and work it again with the old verdict still to hand. Re-running the same text deliberately is a real second run, not a replayed copy of the answer you are trying to move past. Clearing history removes the copy on your account as well as the one in this browser.
My decision is very long. What gets sent?
Up to 40,000 characters of the decision go through as typed. Above that the app cuts the middle, never the end - a pasted decision carries its situation and numbers at the top and its deadline, its do-nothing branch and what you actually want at the bottom, and a plain cut-off would throw away the second half. Both ends are sent intact and the cut is declared in the text itself, so the assessment knows it is not seeing everything and says so.
What happens if the reply stops half-way?
Whatever arrived is kept and shown, with a note saying how many of the six sections were recovered and which ones never arrived. Nothing is filled in or guessed: a field that did not arrive is labelled as not received, and a final half-written bullet is dropped rather than shown as a finding.