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Local-first career decision tool

Career Decision Review

Compare a job, promotion, career change or stay/leave decision without reducing it to one salary number or one exciting story. Your draft stays in this browser.

1 · Frame

Write the decision before the arguments.

Decision

Option A

Option B

Three criteria that matter most

Current favourite

Decision date

2 · Independent view

Make your own reference point first.

What would you value or expect before seeing the recruiter, manager or AI estimate?What happened in comparable career moves?Strongest evidence against your current favourite

3 · Five lenses

Use questions, not diagnoses.

Lens 1

Anchoring effect

What would I think this offer was worth if I had not seen the first number?

What does this question change or reveal?

Lens 2

Sunk cost / escalation of commitment

If I had not already invested years here, would I still choose the next year?

What does this question change or reveal?

Lens 3

Projection bias

Am I treating my current mood as a forecast of my future preferences?

What does this question change or reveal?

Lens 4

Planning fallacy

What happened to people who made a similar transition, not just in my ideal plan?

What does this question change or reveal?

Lens 5

Outcome bias

Am I copying someone's career because it worked, without checking the process and luck?

What does this question change or reveal?

4 · Reduce uncertainty

What can you learn before making the expensive move?

Smallest reversible testWhat result would make you reject the current favourite?Next action

Decision record

Your reasoning trail.

Start with the decision above.

Draft not yet saved.

Boundary

This tool does not choose your career.

It helps preserve criteria, counterevidence and uncertainty. It is not career, financial or mental-health advice, and it does not diagnose a cognitive bias.