Criteria before conclusions
Define the decision, authority, mandatory constraints, evidence threshold and evaluation criteria before models see the preferred answer.
Prioritize the work—and preserve why the choice was defensible.
Public decisions must survive more than a model score. 3Dogs structures the question, makes criteria and tradeoffs explicit, challenges the recommendation, preserves dissent, and produces a record a human decision-maker can examine.
A ranking is not enough when every tradeoff has a constituency.
Infrastructure, road safety, food access and capital planning combine incomplete data, legal constraints, geographic equity, operational capacity, urgency and political scrutiny. The job is not to hide disagreement inside a single number. It is to expose how the recommendation changes when assumptions, weights or evidence change.
Challenge before approval
Test alternatives, counterfactuals, missing communities, sensitivity to weights and evidence that could reverse the ordering.
Record after synthesis
Preserve sources, assumptions, unresolved questions, minority positions and the named human approval boundary.
Published demonstrations
Demonstration · simulated decision process
Demonstration · illustrative feasibility
Two public problems, with limitations kept visible.
DOT safety prioritization
A structured case explores how a transportation agency could prioritize safety investments under budget and evidence constraints. It demonstrates the method; it is not an agency deployment or validated safety outcome.
Review the case →Grocery-access feasibility
A public-private investment case examines food access, commercial feasibility and policy tradeoffs. It does not establish that a specific community or project will succeed.
Review the case →Enterprise requirements are part of the decision, not an appendix.
A public-sector engagement should begin by identifying the authority, records requirements, accessibility target, security boundary, retention schedule, data sources, review roles and required procurement evidence.
- 3Dogs does not publicly claim current SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP, CMMC or HIPAA certification; absence of a public claim is not proof that no certification exists.
- In-perimeter or customer-cloud designs are options subject to technical and contractual validation; they do not convert into a 3Dogs certification.
- WCAG 2.2 AA is the target for public web experiences, but conformance must be assessed across the complete scoped process before it is claimed.
- Any uptime, incident-response, support, DPA, records or deletion commitment must appear in the signed agreement.
Review the Trust Center and Accessibility statement before treating the service as procurement-ready.
Human authority
The system can strengthen a record; it cannot inherit public authority.
The responsible agency, official or board remains accountable for data quality, statutory duties, consultation, equity analysis, professional review and the final decision. 3Dogs output is decision support and may be wrong, incomplete or unsuitable for a particular jurisdiction.