Independent audits for consequential decisions
Decision Clarity Audits and AI-assisted Human Decision Audits for founders, chief executives, boards and senior leaders.
Life Laboratory examines the evidence, assumptions and authority shaping a consequential decision, and whether they remain appropriate to current conditions.
Each engagement produces an Executive Calibration Brief and a Correction Plan. The findings may identify changes to make, questions to resolve or safeguards to strengthen. Where no correction is warranted, that is stated.
Implementation remains with the client.
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Two Audits. Different Points of Examination.
Decision Clarity Audit
An independent examination of the decision environment: what is being decided, which signals and assumptions carry weight, how the situation is interpreted, and where authority and responsibility sit.
Relevant when conditions have changed, outcomes diverge from expectations, competing interpretations remain unresolved, or the basis for a major commitment needs testing.
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AI-assisted Human Decision Audit
An independent examination of how human decisions form when artificial intelligence contributes materially to the process.
The audit examines three areas:
- Question formation: how the problem and the question put to AI were defined.
- Evidence and alternatives: how information, interpretations and options were generated, selected and checked.
- Human challenge and authority: how AI contributions were questioned, and who retained responsibility for the decision.
Its subject is the human decision process. Technical AI testing and certification sit outside the engagement.
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You do not need to know which audit fits before making an enquiry.
When an Audit May Be Useful
- A major investment, restructuring, platform rollout or strategic commitment is approaching.
- Conditions have changed and existing assumptions need re-examination.
- Data, metrics, advice or AI outputs support competing interpretations.
- Activity is increasing without resolving the underlying issue.
- Responsibility for examining, challenging or authorising a decision is unclear.
What the Engagement Includes
1. Agree the Scope
Define the decision or decision environment to be examined. Scope, required access, deliverables, timing and fees are agreed in writing before work begins.
2. Examine the Decision Process
Review relevant records and discuss the decision with agreed participants. Establish how the decision forms, what supports it and what remains uncertain.
3. Deliver the Executive Calibration Brief
Set out the decision map, findings, supporting evidence and limits of the examination. Distinguish documented facts, participant accounts, inference and unresolved questions.
4. Deliver and Discuss the Correction Plan
Identify what should be reconsidered, clarified, reassigned, stopped or safeguarded, with proposed ownership and sequencing.
The engagement ends with delivery and discussion of the correction plan. Implementation remains with the client.
The Method Behind the Work
Life Laboratory uses SOC — Signal, Orientation and Calibration to structure the examination of relevant information, the assumptions shaping its interpretation and what may need recalibration.
Its research and publications examine the conceptual basis of this work and the limits of its claims.
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Who Conducts the Audits
The audits are conducted by Luiza Scurtu, founder of Life Laboratory.
Her experience includes founding and leading a business, with responsibility for strategy, profit and loss, finance, people, operations and technology.
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A short conversation to establish whether an audit is the right engagement.
Describe what is being decided, what has changed and why the situation matters now. Include whether AI contributes to the decision process.
You do not need to diagnose the problem yourself.
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