
Human Capability Preservation Standard
Think clearly about a real decision.The judgement remains yours.
Most AI tools give you answers. Arbor Wise is built to help you think.
Examine a decision, surface assumptions, and leave with a decision record you can keep.
Takes around 10–15 minutes. Built for real decisions, not quick advice.
What this is
- Structured reflection
- Explicit reasoning
- Your own judgement
What this is not
- Recommendations
- Answer generation
- Outsourced decisions
How it works
Five stages. Each one grows from the last.
- Choose one small next step that keeps the decision yours
- Identify constraints, risks, and trade-offs
- List the options currently visible
- Clarify what a good outcome would look like
- Define the decision you’re facing
What you can leave with
- A structured decision record
- Your reasoning, made explicit
- The assumptions you surfaced
- A Decision Tree you control
A decision record you keep, revisit, and grow into a grove of your own thinking over time.
Leaf, Tree, Grove
Three ways to keep your thinking, as it grows. You start free.
Leaf
FreeOne decision, thought through and written by you. Save it as a leaf and keep it.
- The full guided session: five stages, questions shaped to your words, AI reflections preserved verbatim
- A final summary and a leaf file that is yours to keep
- One knowledge gap explored per session
- Encrypted files, with an optional passphrase only you hold
- Review any leaf or tree, and bring a leaf back to nourish a later session
Tree
Pay as you goGrow related decisions into one connected structure. Saving a Decision Tree uses a session credit you buy as you need it.
- Everything in Leaf
- Save related leaves into a Decision Tree, with the relationships you declare: continues, revises, replaces, contrasts
- Branch buds: set a thought aside mid-session to explore as its own session later
- Explore as many knowledge gaps as you wish
- Structural observations: plain facts about a tree's shape, never an interpretation
Grove
SubscriptionHold many trees together and work with them in one space.
- Everything in Tree
- The grove workspace: every tree and leaf record in one place, with search, tags, and visual exploration
- My Allotment: plantings (tasks) you author from your own thinking, each keeping a visible origin
- Take plantings elsewhere: copy as text or add to your calendar
- Tend your grove: cuttings, pruning, and encrypted downloads of the whole collection
Arborwork
Coming soonArborwork brings HCPS-based decision support into organisations while preserving individual ownership of meaning. Organisations manage access and collaboration, but personal reasoning remains private to the author.
- A subscription for organisations across Business, Education, and Research
- A dedicated organisation sign-in portal
- Branding with customisable themes
- Encrypted hosted data
Interested for your organisation? Read more about Arborwork
Why this exists
AI is the first tool capable of replacing, not just assisting, human reasoning.
The Human Capability Preservation Standard (HCPS) exists to protect independent thinking, decision-making capability, and confidence in personal judgement as AI grows more powerful.
Arbor Wise is an early example of that standard in practice.
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