Next or Not? — pivot, persevere, or kill

Next or Not? is the decision gate at the end of each LEARN loop. Open it from the board in the final phase.

Synthesize the loop

Click Synthesize this loop with the Coach and Sandai reads your experiments and learnings to summarize what worked, what didn't, and recommend a decision. Use it as a starting point, not gospel.

Analyse every loop

As loops pile up, patterns emerge across them. Analyze all loops has Sandai review the whole project through an enterprise-architecture lens — TOGAF ADM discipline and Zachman completeness — and return a health rating for each Zachman interrogative (Why/What/How/Who/Where/When), an overall score, and a candid Good / Bad / Ugly.

You can then save that Good / Bad / Ugly as retrospective learnings in one click — grouped as a single sitting, exactly like the Retrospective tool creates. (This analysis always reads every loop, regardless of a project's reference-context setting.)

Reflect

Capture your own retrospective: what worked, what didn't, and the next step.

Decide

Make the call:

Persevere — the strategy is working; keep going. Automatically starts a fresh loop back at Look & Listen, carrying your open items forward.
Pivot — change direction based on what you learned. Also starts a fresh loop automatically.
Kill — the evidence says stop on this line of enquiry. It closes the current loop and does not start a new one — and it does not kill the whole project.

After a Kill, the project has no open loop. Unlike Pivot and Persevere, Kill won't move you on automatically — that's deliberate, because you've decided this line is done. To keep working the project, start a new loop yourself with the Start new loop button on the project page, then begin fresh at Look & Listen (see Using loops). (Ending the entire project is a separate owner action in project settings.)

Every decision is saved to the project's decision history, so the story of how the idea evolved is never lost. A killed line isn't a failure — it's a cheap lesson you didn't have to pay full price for.

Completing a decision also auto-captures a snapshot of the loop — a frozen, browsable record labelled with the loop and the call — so you can always look back at exactly what the loop produced.

A decision is locked in

Once you record a decision the loop is concluded, and its Next or Not? phase can no longer be stepped back — the call is final, which keeps your decision history honest. (You can still step back while a loop is undecided; see Advancing and stepping back.)