Early access
Break the matter down until what is left is a decision.
Kamelot takes a matter — a build, a case, a hire, a move — and breaks it into tasks, steps and the choices underneath. Everyone you invite says where they stand, in writing. What was decided, by whom, and why, stays attached to the work.
Not open yet. We are aiming to let the first matters in six months from now, and we are finding out who wants it before we build the rest.
The pattern
Six levels, and the last one is where people speak.
Most tools stop at the task. The argument is never at the task — it is at the choice three levels below it, and that is the level Kamelot is built to reach.
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Matter — The thing to be settled.
Buying the house
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Task — What has to happen for it to move.
Ensure own capital
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Step — The concrete piece of work inside it.
Check the accounts at UBS
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Item — The point where a call has to be made.
Which account to draw on
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Option — The choices actually on the table.
The savings account
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Vote — Where one person stands, and why.
Anna is for it — the penalty for drawing early is the lowest
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Option
The investment account
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Option
The pillar 3a
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Task — and the next one under the same matter
Arrange the mortgage
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Matter — The thing to be settled.
Replacing the kitchen oven
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Task — What has to happen for it to move.
Settle what the kitchen can take
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Step — The concrete piece of work inside it.
Measure the gap and check the power supply
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Item — The point where a call has to be made.
Which oven goes in
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Option — The choices actually on the table.
The steam oven
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Option
The plain fan oven
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Vote — Where one person stands, and why.
Markus is for it — we would use the steam twice a year
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Option
The self-cleaning fan oven
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Task — and the next one under the same matter
Book the electrician
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Matter — The thing to be settled.
Hiring the studio's first designer
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Task — What has to happen for it to move.
Agree what the role actually is
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Step — The concrete piece of work inside it.
Write down what the first hire must cover
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Item — The point where a call has to be made.
Which kind of designer to hire
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Option — The choices actually on the table.
The generalist
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Vote — Where one person stands, and why.
Sofia is for it — we cannot keep a specialist busy for a year
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Option
The specialist
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Option
The part-time senior
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Task — and the next one under the same matter
Agree the salary band
Three matters of very different size, one shape, carried all the way down. Every level holds its own people, its own comments and its own files.
Nothing here elects a winner. A vote says where one person stands and why; the person responsible for the item closes it with all of those reasons in front of them.
Every level carries the same things.
Whatever you attach, say or hand to somebody at a matter, you can attach, say or hand to somebody at any level down.
On every matter, task, step, item and option
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Files, including the heavy ones
Images, audio and video, PDFs and documents, up to 25 MB each — and every one of them carries the reason it was attached, because a file with no reason is a file nobody opens again.
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Versions of a file
Replace a drawing and keep the one it replaced, with its own comments, so an argument about the old version still makes sense.
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Comments
At every level, and on the votes themselves — so an argument about somebody's reasoning sits next to the reasoning.
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Indications
A tip, a hint, something somebody heard — kept as what it is rather than buried in the discussion, so a decision can show what it leaned on and how firm that was.
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Deadlines
A date on a matter, a task or a step, shown for what it is — and shown differently once it has gone.
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Something that chases them
Being told a date is coming, rather than finding out that it went.
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The people invited to it
Bring somebody in at a matter, a task or a single step. They reach that branch and nothing above it, so an outside expert can settle one question without being shown the rest.
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Who owes it
Handing a matter, a task or a step to one person by name — which is a different question from who is allowed to see it.
A vote is the exception: it carries a written reason and its own discussion rather than files. Tell us which of these you would reach for first — the form asks.
A task list says what is left. Kamelot says what was decided.
The reason is the record
No vote is a click. Every one carries a written reason, because six months later nobody asks what was decided — they ask why, and that answer normally lives in one person's memory.
Decisions sit in the work
Not in a thread that scrolls away, not in a document nobody opens. The choice hangs off the step it belongs to, next to the files and the discussion that produced it.
Any project that ends in choices somebody has to live with.
- A renovation with three trades and one budget
- A family settling what happens to a house
- A studio choosing between two ways to build it
- A committee that has to show how it decided
- Two founders who disagree and have to move anyway
- Anything with a deadline and an argument
If a decision needs more than one person, and has to hold up when somebody questions it later, it fits.
Would you use this?
That is the only question we are asking today. Tell us who you are and what you do, and we will come to you before anyone else.
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