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Using Midfire, page by page.

Each article explains one part of the app. Still stuck? Write to greg@midfire.ai. Greg answers within one business day.

Getting started

Start your first decisionWrite the decision in one sentence, say what it optimizes for, confirm its type, and Midfire takes you to its record.
Choose between everyday and big betThe type sets how much process a decision gets, from two questions about cost and reversibility that you can always change before conditions exist.
How the free trial worksYour account's first workspace gets free decisions with no card and no time limit, and everything you do yourself keeps working after they are used.
Give a decision its areaEvery decision has one area, such as Pricing or People and organization, suggested when you start it and changed in one click.

Your decision

Frame the decisionSay what the decision is for and what it must respect, so the conditions are drafted for the question you actually face.
Name the paths you are choosing betweenList the real options, keep the status quo as the baseline, and know when the set of paths can still change.
Work with the conditionsGenerate what must be true and what must not fail for every path, then read where the decision is exposed.
Make the call on a conditionRecord whether a condition is met, a risk you accept, or not applicable, with the reason on the record.
Check a document against a conditionBring a contract, a report or a sheet you already have, and keep the passage that speaks to the condition as a receipt.
Run the premortemImagine the plan has already failed, name why, and turn the causes worth guarding against into conditions.
Test your path in the hearingBefore a big bet is committed, the hearing argues the strongest case against the path you lean toward, so you can answer it or decide knowingly.
Commit to a path and lock the decisionSay what success looks like, set the predictions and tripwires you will return to, choose the path, then lock the decision.
Plan the rollout and record changes after the lockOn a big bet, say who the decision lands on and how it reaches them, then amend the plan with a reason if it changes after the lock.
Review a decision you madeCome back on the review dates, compare your predictions with what happened, check your tripwires, and keep watching or resolve the decision.
See where a decision standsThe status view says where the decision is, what is missing and what to do next, and lets you catch up on what changed since you last looked.
Change a decision's settingsDecision settings holds the decision's folder, whether contributors see each other's names, who can open it, and the danger zone.

Working together

Ask people for input on a decisionShare a decision in progress, choose what each person can do, and ask for their view on the conditions and the premortem.
Answer when you are asked for your viewImagine the plan failed, then give one answer per condition, in your own words and before you see anyone else's.
See who is involved in a decisionThe People section lists who is on a decision, what each was asked and has given, coverage by condition, and once committed, its brief.
Hand a decision to another decision makerWhoever creates a decision makes the call by default; hand it over from People to someone who can edit it.
Walk the conditions in a meetingThe meeting view puts one path's conditions on a shared screen, one at a time, with who has answered and never what they said.

Your workspace

Find your way around your decisionsThree views show what needs you, what you are part of and everything you can open, and a preview opens beside the list.
Give Midfire your company contextThree short documents about your company, strategy and competition let Midfire tailor every decision it drafts.
Find and gather decisions in collectionsCollections holds Decided and Published for everyone, plus your own collections, which you can share with the workspace.
Manage members and foldersWorkspace admins invite people, choose each person's role, and decide which folders let members read committed decisions.
Set your name, notifications and lookYour own settings control how colleagues see you, which committed decisions reach your inbox, how Midfire looks and how much it drafts.
Seats, decisions and billingYou pay per decision-maker, each seat adds decisions to a pool your team shares, and readers and contributors are free.
Export your decisions as plain filesDownload every decision you can open, with its people and history, as a zip of plain files you can read without Midfire.
Move a draft to Trash and restore itA draft you created can go to Trash and come back within 30 days, with every contribution kept.
Look back on your decisions with LearningLearning reads your closed decisions as seven questions, each answered in one sentence, with the decisions behind it one click away.
Keep working when Claude is having troubleWhen Claude, the model Midfire uses, has an incident, Midfire says so, tries another Claude model, and keeps your work saved.