History
Each stage carries the name it had at the time and the date its source gives. Where a stage is a publication by BC-DS, its date links to the publication history, where the date is proved. Dates are in UTC.
18 April 2009: multivoting.com
Daniel A. Montero registers multivoting.com, for an app for reaching decisions by consensus through multi-voting.
Source: the .com registry, which dates the present registration of multivoting.com to 18 April 2009.
2 December 2024: convoking4.com
The domain convoking4.com is registered for Convoking4.
Source: the .com registry. BDA v2.1’s development history gives the same date.
27 February to 30 June 2025: six posts
Six posts on decision-making are published on convoking4.com:
- The Collaborative Decision-Making Zone: Strategies for Business Success
- Decision-Making in Business: Navigating the Interplay of Information, Goals, and People
- What is a Good Business Decision?
- Solving Digital Transformation’s Decision Pain Points: From Challenge to Clarity
- Fractured Discussions: The Hidden Culprit Behind Bad Decisions
- Evolution of Decision-Making: Past, Present, and Future
The posts are no longer on the site.
Source: the publication date WordPress gives each post.
10 July 2025: the U.A.D.T. framework
The framework Understand, Align, Decide, Thrive (U.A.D.T.) is set down in the document “Repository Convoking4™”.
It was the first model of the cycle, which evolved into UCADE: Understand, Communicate, Align, Decide, Evolve.
Source: Google Drive’s record of the document.
14 July 2025: the 2025 Global Recognition Award
Convoking4 receives the 2025 Global Recognition Award in Digital Transformation and Project Management.
Source: the Global Recognition Awards’ announcement of 14 July 2025, and their letter of confirmation of 23 July 2025, kept by BC-DS.
21 and 22 July 2025: the Decision-Making Compass
The Decision-Making Compass appears in “The Decision-Maker’s Workshop”, on the Google Site “Convoking4 - Trigger Prototype”, created on 21 July 2025 and first published on 22 July.
Source: Google Drive’s record of the site, and its version history in Google Sites.
July to September 2025: tests on Google Sites
BC-DS uses Google Sites to test sub-systems, architectures, models and names, among them a Decision Lab, an organization profile generator and a strategy builder.
Source: Google Drive’s records of seventeen Google Sites, the first created on 21 July 2025 and the last on 17 September 2025.
5 August 2025: Digital Journal
Digital Journal publishes “The system that turns complex decisions into actionable plans”, by its contributor Mae Cornes, under its note that opinions expressed by its contributors are their own.
Source: the article, as Digital Journal publishes it.
From 19 August 2025: GitHub and Netlify
The development moves from Google Sites to GitHub and Netlify, where the first minimum viable products (MVPs) are built.
Source: Netlify’s records of the sites, kept by BC-DS.
17 September 2025: CEO Weekly
CEO Weekly publishes “Convoking4’s Approach to Solving Decision-Making Challenges in Business”, which it labels as branded content from a third party.
Source: the article, as CEO Weekly publishes it.
September 2025 to January 2026: the BDA prototype
The tests are combined into a prototype for the Business Decision Architecture (BDA): a Convoking4 app with sign-in, built on four steps, Understand, Align, Decide, Transform. It was not launched, because the model was not good enough.
Source: Netlify’s record of the prototype, and its screens, kept by BC-DS.
26 February 2026: BDA v1.00
BC-DS publishes BDA v1.00, Business Decision Architecture: A System Architecture for Decision-Making in the Age of AI, with an RFC 3161 time stamp.
Source: the publication history.
March and April 2026: SDA first
BC-DS develops the Solo Decision Architecture (SDA) first, to refine BDA afterwards. SDA v1.0 is published on 31 March 2026, with MVPs of SDA built on Netlify, and four papers follow on Zenodo from 27 to 30 April 2026.
Sources: the publication history; Netlify’s records of the MVPs, kept by BC-DS.
Now: Decisiontect
Convoking4’s development evolved into Decisiontect, which implements the SDA model. Its beta will launch from decisiontect.com.
Every publication dated above can be checked in the publication history.