Decide first.
Then task your sensors.

Traditional collection-led ISR begins with what sensors are available and works forward to what they can observe. IDDI inverts that logic. It begins with the commander’s decision — the specific threshold judgement that must be made, by whom, by when, and at what acceptable level of uncertainty — and works backward to determine what sensing, fusion, and staff action is required to support it.

In practice, decision-driven means that no ISR task is generated, no collection asset allocated, and no intelligence product commissioned without a traceable link to a named decision. IDDI’s operating logic — Understand, Decide, Effect — is not a linear sequence. Understanding shapes decisions; decisions reshape sensing priorities; effects generate new understanding. The cycle is governed by command intent, not machine tempo.

Problem-Centric Analysis (PCA) defines the threshold problem the commander must resolve. KASNIAN (Key actors, Alliances, Structures, Norms, Interests, Attitudes, Networks) maps the decision ecosystem inside that problem. Threshold-Evidence logic — testing Activity, Attribution, and Intent/Effect — provides the judgement mechanism. IDDI orchestrates all three, keeping every output anchored to decision relevance rather than collection capacity.

AI assistance within the 360iSR IDDI workflow is precise in its scope. It operates at the analytical preparation and pre-fill stages — reducing the time an analyst spends on structured but mechanical tasks — and at the fusion and convergence stages, where pattern-surfacing and gap detection add genuine analytical value. It does not operate at the decision stages.

In the end-to-end ISRT workflow, the process contains five operator interaction points: three doctrinal Human Gates and two checkpoints. Human Gate 1 fires after §2C — the commander’s threshold framework, risk-confidence linkage, and decision families must be confirmed by the commander before the workflow advances. Human Gate 2 fires after §6 — the convergence state per threshold and UK Probability Yardstick verdict must be confirmed before DSRs are generated. Human Gate 3 fires after §8 — the full DSR list, mandatory rule compliance, and priority ordering are confirmed before tasking. Checkpoint 1 fires after §10B asset declaration; Checkpoint 2 fires after the Stage 3 ISR Coordination Card is produced and reviewed.

AI pre-fills the mission frame and indicators between §0 and §2C; suggests convergence scores at §5 before the operator confirms or overrides at Human Gate 2; and generates draft DSRs at §8 for human review before Human Gate 3 closes. The operational posture throughout is: AI pre-fill, human approve. No gate may be bypassed. No analytical verdict is generated without the human operator’s confirmation at the relevant checkpoint.