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    • 10-Foundations & Core Standards

    DACS Executive Brief

    A concise executive guide to decision-evidence risk, DACS readiness, and authorizing a bounded First Look for one material decision path.

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    v0.32Released
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    • 10-Foundations & Core Standards

    DACS Executive Overview

    DACS Executive Overview Evidence and authority for material business decisions Based on v0.7 Release Candidate (October 2, 2026) | Proposed executive-language revision for DVA review Founding Authors &…

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    v0.8Released
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    • 10-Foundations & Core Standards

    DACS Manifesto

    The foundational doctrine of Defensible Analytics: material decisions should be supported by evidence whose meaning, identity, relationships, context, authority, and permitted use can be established and reconstructed.

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    v1.18Released
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    • 10-Foundations & Core Standards

    DACS Pass/Fail and Remediation Catalog

    Operational guidance for evaluating DACS controls, recording Pass, Fail, or Not Applicable, remediating failed conditions, and retesting evidence for closure.

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    v1.1Released
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    • 10-Foundations & Core Standards

    DACS Specification

    The normative DACS control specification for testing whether decision evidence is governed, reconstructable, and ready for certified use within a stated scope.

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    v1.4Released
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    • 90-Tools & Job Aids

    DACS Accountability Gate Example

    A completed Accountability Gate example using Active Customer Count for a weekly executive dashboard. See how scope, evidence, ownership, unresolved ambiguity, readiness state, remediation, and next actions come…

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    v0.1Released
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    DACS Accountability Gate Template

    A lightweight, reusable worksheet for defining one decision path, required evidence, ownership, readiness conditions, constraints, remediation, and the resulting decision. Use it to apply an Accountability Gate manually…

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    v0.2Released
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