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This page records how BC-DS has published its work on the decision architecture discipline. It covers the framework papers by Monica M. Hernandez and Daniel A. Montero, and Monica M. Hernandez's articles and posts in English and Spanish, on LinkedIn and in PM World Journal. For each piece it gives the date and where anyone can check it. It records the publications of BC-DS and its two authors only. It makes no claim about who first used the words "decision architecture" or "arquitectura de decisiones", or about anyone else's use of them.
All times are given in UTC, with Rockville time beside them.
| Date | What was published | Where | What proves the date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 February 2026, 06:43 UTC (01:43 Rockville) | BDA v1.00, Business Decision Architecture: A System Architecture for Decision-Making in the Age of AI | Daniel-ams/BDA-Framework-v-1.00, added at 06:53 UTC in commit 58dfb36 | An RFC 3161 time stamp by freetsa.org inside the PDF, and GitHub's signed commit |
| 28 February 2026, 02:39 UTC (27 February, 21:39 Rockville) | BDA v1.10 | The same repository, added at 02:47 UTC in commit 3f54d05 | A freetsa.org time stamp inside the PDF, and GitHub's signed commit |
| 17 March 2026, 21:28 UTC (17:28 Rockville) | BDA v2, with its appendices B and C, as Markdown texts | BCDS-LLC/Frameworks-BDA-and-SDA, commit 50578cd | GitHub's signed commit |
| 31 March 2026, 01:21 UTC (30 March, 21:21 Rockville) | SDA v1.0, Solo Decision Architecture (SDA) Framework, as a Markdown text | The same repository, commit d34e80b | GitHub's signed commit |
| 3 April 2026, 18:24 UTC (14:24 Rockville) | The PDFs of BDA v2.1, its appendices B and C, and SDA v1.0 | The same repository, commit eacddae | GitHub's signed commit |
| 3 April 2026, 21:58 UTC (17:58 Rockville) | The Markdown texts of BDA v2.1 and SDA v1.0 as a website | frameworks.bc-ds.com, built by Netlify from commit a8b735b | Netlify's record of the deploy, held by BC-DS |
The Markdown texts were edited until 2 April 2026, and the repository's history keeps every version. The PDFs have not changed since 3 April 2026. Each repository's README lists its files with their SHA-256 fingerprints.
Each paper was published first on Zenodo, with a DOI, and then listed on SSRN, whose record carries the Zenodo DOI. The date given for each paper is its date on Zenodo. That date is not always the day of the upload, so the moment of each upload is given beside it.
| Zenodo date | Paper | Uploaded to Zenodo | DOI | SSRN |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 April 2026 | The Realities of Decision Distortion in the Age of AI: Human Cognitive and Organizational Biases and AI-Specific Amplification Mechanisms, v1.0 | 27 April, 22:01 UTC (18:01 Rockville) | 10.5281/zenodo.19831515 | 6663938, posted 6 May 2026 |
| 28 April 2026 | Backcasting and the Dual Lens: A Methodological Foundation for the Decision Architecture Discipline, v1.0 | 27 April, 22:17 UTC (18:17 Rockville) | 10.5281/zenodo.19832436 | 6668140, posted 28 April 2026 |
| 29 April 2026 | Solo Decision Architecture (SDA) Framework: An Operating System Powered by the Dual Lens Principle, v2.0 | 29 April, 02:50 UTC (28 April, 22:50 Rockville) | 10.5281/zenodo.19871192 | 6675481, posted 29 April 2026 |
| 30 April 2026 | Business Decision Architecture (BDA) Framework: The Discipline of Organizational Decision Governance, v3.0 | 30 April, 02:14 UTC (29 April, 22:14 Rockville) | 10.5281/zenodo.19903175 | 6682698, posted 11 May 2026 |
BDA v3.0's Zenodo record says that it supersedes BDA v2.1.
These documents use the terms "decision architecture", "Decision Architect" and "decision architecture discipline" in public, at the dates proved above. Each quotation is exact, and each source is linked at the commit that first published it.
| Term | Earliest use in these documents | Quotation |
|---|---|---|
| decision architecture | BDA v1.00, 26 February 2026 (PDF) | "Organizations began treating AI as the transformation itself, when AI was an accelerant that made sound decision architecture more urgent, not less." |
| Decision Architect | BDA v1.00, 26 February 2026 (the same PDF) | Its Part Seven is headed "The Decision Architect and the Business Decision Architect", and one of its sections "The Decision Architect: An Open Role". |
| decision architecture discipline | SDA v1.0, 31 March 2026, 01:21 UTC (30 March, 21:21 Rockville) (text) | "The SDA is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License as part of BC-DS's commitment to an open decision architecture discipline." |
On 17 March 2026, in the BDA v2 text it first published (commit 50578cd), BC-DS wrote:
BC-DS explicitly disclaims exclusive rights to the following terms, which are dedicated to the public as open disciplinary concepts. Any individual or organization may use these freely in the practice, teaching, or development of Business Decision Architecture:
The terms it lists include Business Decision Architecture (BDA), as an "Open disciplinary term", and Business Decision Architect / Decision Architect, as an "Open professional title". The same passage is in the BDA v2.1 PDF of 3 April 2026.
These quotations record BC-DS's own public use of the terms. They do not claim that BC-DS was the first to use them.
Monica M. Hernandez, an author of the papers above, has also written about decision architecture on LinkedIn, in English and Spanish, and in PM World Journal. The table lists each piece that uses one of the terms "decision architecture", "Decision Architect", "decision architecture discipline", "Business Decision Architecture" or "Solo Decision Architecture", or the Spanish forms "arquitectura de decisiones" and "arquitectura de decisión". Each quotation is exact.
LinkedIn prints an exact date under the byline of an article, and that date is given here as LinkedIn prints it. LinkedIn shows a post only by its age, so a post's date and time are worked out from its LinkedIn identifier, the number in its address, whose leading part counts the milliseconds since 1 January 1970 in UTC. Worked this way, the identifiers give the right date for six articles whose exact dates LinkedIn prints. Both kinds of date come from LinkedIn's own records. The account's owner can edit a piece after it is published, and LinkedIn marks an edited post without saying when, so these dates are not independent time stamps like the freetsa.org time stamps above.
| Date | Kind | Title, or first line of the post | Where | What proves the date | The terms, quoted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 February 2026, 14:00 UTC (09:00 Rockville) | Post, in Spanish | "Sharing insights from my work on decision debt, ahora en español:" | Its LinkedIn identifier. LinkedIn marks this post as edited and does not say when, so its text may have changed after this date. | "la arquitectura de decisión que debe sostenerla" and "con la arquitectura de decisiones" | |
| 9 March 2026, 13:00 UTC (09:00 Rockville) | Post | "Backcasting is usually discussed in strategy sessions—but some of the best examples happen in our personal journeys." | Its LinkedIn identifier | "the framework we call Business Decision Architecture (BDA)" | |
| 16 March 2026 | Article | Business Decision Architecture: The Missing Discipline in the Age of AI | The date LinkedIn prints under the byline | "In the age of AI, decision architecture may become" | |
| 2 April 2026, 13:01 UTC (09:01 Rockville) | Comment | Monica M. Hernandez's reply to a reader, under her post sharing the article above | Its LinkedIn identifier | "in Business Decision Architecture (BDA)" | |
| 14 April 2026, 13:00 UTC (09:00 Rockville) | Post | "Why ~90% of AI Pilots Never Make It Out of the Testing Phase" | Its LinkedIn identifier | "This is where decision architecture becomes critical" | |
| 5 May 2026 | Article | Decisions That Stay Decided | The date LinkedIn prints under the byline | "the Decision Architecture discipline at bc-ds.com/decision_architecture" | |
| 6 May 2026 | Journal article, labelled "Advisory Article" | Why Projects Misalign, and the One Shift that Fixes It, in PM World Journal. The journal's site header prints "Volume XV, Issue 5 May 2026", and the article's suggested citation prints "Vol. XIV, Issue V. May." | PM World Journal, PDF | The journal's web page gives 6 May 2026, in its issue of May 2026 | "Her work on decision architecture" and "is a Decision Architect", in the author's biography |
| 22 June 2026 | Article | Messi, the World Cup, and the Hidden Architecture Behind Great Decisions | The date LinkedIn prints under the byline | "the underlying decision architecture is broken" | |
| 3 July 2026 | Article, in Spanish | Lo que Messi y el Mundial de la FIFA nos enseñan sobre las grandes decisiones | The date LinkedIn prints under the byline | "la arquitectura de decisiones no está funcionando" | |
| 9 July 2026, 00:06 UTC (8 July, 20:06 Rockville) | Post, in Spanish | "La resiliencia no se construye cuando la tierra empieza a temblar" | Its LinkedIn identifier. LinkedIn marks this post as edited and does not say when, so its text may have changed after this date. | "#ArquitecturaDeDecisiones" | |
| 9 July 2026, 13:30 UTC (09:30 Rockville) | Post | "Resilience Isn't Built When the Ground Starts Shaking" | Its LinkedIn identifier | "#DecisionArchitecture" |
Each new publication is added to this page as a row on the day it appears. No existing row is rewritten.
From this version on, the text of each version of this page, its file README.md, is time-stamped by freetsa.org under RFC 3161. A version cannot hold its own time stamp, so each version's stamp is added afterwards to the repository's folder timestamps/, with freetsa.org's request, reply and certificates. Each version is also saved to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine.
To check a version without trusting BC-DS:
timestamps/. The command openssl ts -verify -in reply.tsr -data README.md -CAfile cacert.pem -untrusted tsa.crt, with freetsa.org's certificates from the same folder or from freetsa.org, answers "Verification: OK" only if the text is unchanged since the stamp was made. The command openssl ts -reply -in reply.tsr -text shows the time in the stamp.The papers are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).