Executive summary
We are the decision governance company.
The system of record for consequential decisions — so institutions can answer “Who decided this, and why?”
Origin
We bought datavisuals.com from HP. The name was the plan: make the data easier to see.
Then we spent years inside banks and credit unions with good dashboards. The numbers were there. What nobody could reconstruct was who decided, on what basis, and when.
The gap wasn’t visibility into data. It was accountability for decisions.
The decision record
A decision record holds what people actually ask for later: what was decided, who owned it, who was consulted, why, and what evidence was in hand. Outcome attaches to the same record when it’s known. Rules guide the decisions you know you have. Signals from your existing systems surface the ones you don’t.
We capture owner, rationale, evidence, and expected outcomes at the moment a decision is made — not reconstructed weeks later under audit pressure. The structured decision record is a queryable, exportable artifact, not an email thread, slide deck, or set of committee minutes.
Automated workflows capture updates and comments throughout the decision governance lifecycle, including measurable outcomes.
Products
One discipline across two products. AI is a capability of the platform — a property of every decision record, not a third product.
- Decision Governance™
- Banks & credit unions. Ten workflows from lending and BSA/fraud to board decisions. Exam-ready record.
- Decision Pipelines™
- Federal government & states. Fraud and eligibility governance for benefits, grants, and disbursing agencies. Built for OIG, GAO, and improper-payment oversight.
Customers
- Financial institutions
- Community banks, regional banks, credit unions. Buyers: CEO/Board, CRO, CIO, General Counsel. Self-serve entry; optional implementation services.
- Government
- Program-integrity teams, agency leadership, and certifying officers focused on waste, fraud, and improper payments.
- Partners and OEMs
- Software vendors and consultancies embedding decision governance into their own products through our API.
Differentiation
We sit at the intersection of governance, technology, and data. Dashboards, GRC tools, workflow systems, and warehouses do not produce a structured decision record. DataVisuals does — versioned, observable, and citable.
Creators of the Decision Governance Maturity Model — an open-methodology benchmark that makes the category measurable and comparable.
Company
Founded 2021. Southeastern Wisconsin. Three decades of work inside regulated institutions — banking, automotive, CPG, metadata and analytics platforms, and industry methodology.
In short
DataVisuals turns the most consequential institutional decisions into governed, defensible records — so when an examiner, inspector general, board, or auditor asks, the answer already exists.