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decision intelligence
also DI or decision intelligence engineering
Definition of decision intelligence
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: an interdisciplinary approach to improving or automating decisions by combining data, analytics, machine learning, business rules, optimization, and knowledge about how actions lead to outcomes
- The retailer used decision intelligence to combine demand forecasts with inventory rules before recommending a promotion.
- A decision-intelligence system should record the evidence, policy, and model behind each automated approval.
Origin & history
The modern discipline grew from earlier work in decision engineering and was popularized at Google in 2018, when Cassie Kozyrkov led a practice called Decision Intelligence Engineering. The shorter name later became a software-market category for systems that support, augment, or automate operational decisions. OpenAI's October 2026 beta release of a Decisions API was a new example of models being packaged for typed classification and scoring decisions.
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"Decision intelligence." AI Dictionary, Dadgogo, https://dadgogo.com/dictionary/decision-intelligence/. Accessed 8 Oct. 2026.