Decision science

The right calculation for the choice in front of you.

You do not need to speak math. Wolf You Feed matches a Decision Opportunity to an inspectable method, names the inputs and assumptions, and keeps the numbers from being rewritten in prose. The default is still a Decision. Calculation is evidence, not a substitute for your values.

Four methods you can invoke today

These four are the shortest path from a brief to inspectable evidence. The catalog below is the full bevy: same Decision-first contract, more situations, same provenance.

Cash-flow and runway

Projects balances, inflows, and outflows against a reserve floor so a purchase, debt plan, or pause in income has a dated consequence.

Consumable-resource depletion

Projects stock, burn, and resupply against a floor so a Tactical Mode Decision names when a resource runs out.

Expected-value comparison

Rolls stated payoffs and probabilities into a comparable value for each option, with the formula and inputs attached.

Pareto non-domination filter

Drops options that lose on every priority you named, then leaves the remaining trade-offs visible.

Family Mode money Decisions

Cash, debt, housing, work, and insurance choices use the balances, rates, and floors you already have on file or supply in the brief. Insurance and retirement math compare scenarios you own. They do not replace a licensed advisor or predict whether a carrier will pay a claim.

Money Decision Opportunities
Decision Opportunity	How WYF computes it	You supply
Can I safely afford this purchase?	Total cost of ownership against a cash-reserve floor	Price, recurring costs, reserve floor, horizon
Which debt should I pay first?	Amortization and constrained payoff ordering	Balances, APRs, minimums, available monthly cash
Should I refinance?	Net present value, break-even, and rate sensitivity	Payoff balance, current and new APR, term, fees
How long is my emergency runway?	Deterministic cash flow plus downside scenarios	Liquid balances, recurring inflows and outflows, reserve floor
What contribution reaches my goal?	Required-contribution solver over a stated horizon	Current balance, target, horizon, return range
Rent or buy?	Discounted cash flow with tenure and cost sensitivity	Rent, price, mortgage, taxes, maintenance, expected tenure
Which job offer is actually better?	After-tax cash flow plus priority-weighted trade-offs	Compensation, benefits, commute, hours, your priorities
Can I start this business now?	Runway simulation and a staged stop-loss	Capital, burn range, revenue scenarios, stop-loss floor
How much insurance is rational?	Expected-loss scenarios against what you can afford	Exposure, deductible options, premium, reserve capacity
Will this retirement or withdrawal plan hold?	Longevity and sequence-risk ranges, not a promise	Assets, spending, horizon, contribution or withdrawal rules

Health and habits

WYF compares clinician-provided options and measures habits you track. It does not diagnose, select medication, set a dose, or replace a clinician.

Health and habit Decision Opportunities
Decision Opportunity	How WYF computes it	You supply
Which habit should I add first?	Expected impact times how likely you are to keep it	Candidate habits, time cost, expected benefit range
Am I actually adhering consistently?	Adherence rate with a named uncertainty interval	Completed and missed opportunities in a defined window
How should I schedule training this week?	Constraint scheduling with recovery floors	Available slots, session types, recovery constraints
Is this sleep intervention helping?	Your own before-and-after comparison	Baseline and intervention measures, plus confounders
What is a realistic weight-goal timeline?	Scenario ranges and sensitivity, not a guarantee	Trend data, intake and activity ranges, adherence assumptions
Which clinician-provided treatment option fits my priorities?	Priority-weighted comparison of options a clinician already named	Clinician-defined options, risks, burdens, your priorities
How should I interpret this screening result?	Base-rate update using sourced test characteristics	Result, population base rate, sensitivity and specificity
Which safe routine should I test next?	Bounded experiment design for reversible behaviors	Measurable outcome, safe ranges, experiment budget

Household and relationships

Schedules, capacity, money, and the trade-offs you name are computable. Hidden motives are not. WYF will not assign a probability that another person is honest, loving, compatible, abusive, or about to leave.

Household Decision Opportunities
Decision Opportunity	How WYF computes it	You supply
Should we relocate?	Priority-weighted options plus budget and time scenarios	Locations, costs, careers, family constraints, priorities
How do we divide household work fairly?	Constraint allocation with fairness diagnostics	Tasks, availability, burden, non-negotiable constraints
Can we sustain this caregiving plan?	Capacity schedule and failure-point sensitivity	Care tasks, participants, availability, respite floors
Do I stay, leave, or set a boundary?	Decision tree over observable consequences you specify	Options, observable consequences, values, reversibility
Which commitments must I reduce?	Time-budget optimization and non-dominated choices	Commitments, hours, importance, minimum obligations
Is our repair plan feasible?	Commitment feasibility plus scenario sensitivity	Actions, cadence, capacity, review horizon
What parenting or custody schedule is workable?	Constraint scenarios and stability analysis	Legal constraints, calendars, travel, child needs

Tactical Mode consumable resources

Decision support for stock, watches, loadout, routes, and contingencies. Human ratification stays in the loop. WYF does not aim, fire, or relax rules of engagement.

Tactical Decision Opportunities
Decision Opportunity	How WYF computes it	You supply
When will this resource cross its floor?	Depletion and resupply scenarios against a stated floor	Stock, burn range, floor, resupply timing
How should watches or shifts be assigned?	Constraint scheduling with rest and coverage rules	Personnel, qualifications, rest rules, coverage windows
Which loadout satisfies the mission constraints?	Capacity-bounded resource selection with redundancy floors	Capacity, required capabilities, weights, redundancy floors
Which non-kinetic route or egress option is most resilient?	Multi-criteria path comparison under worst-case stress	Routes, hazards, timing, capacity, hard exclusions
Which course of action best preserves options?	Non-dominated courses of action plus scenario stress	Courses of action, objectives, constraints, uncertainties
How many spares are justified?	Reliability model against a service-level target	Failure history, mission horizon, repair or resupply time

Choices that cut across modes

School, a move, caregiving, a house, or a travel-heavy promotion pull money, household capacity, and health into one Decision. WYF keeps those ledgers separate and shows the trade-offs together.

Cross-mode Decision Opportunities
Decision Opportunity	How WYF computes it	You supply
Should I go back to school?	Discounted cash flow, schedule feasibility, and non-dominated choices	Tuition, lost wages, calendar, health load, household constraints
Should our family move?	Cost scenarios, priority weights, and downside stress	Locations, costs, careers, household constraints, health load
Should I reduce work to provide care?	Cash-flow runway plus capacity allocation	Pay cut, care hours, reserve floor, other caregivers
Should I buy a home now?	Affordability, runway, and tenure sensitivity	Price, payment, reserves, rent alternative, expected tenure
Should I accept a promotion requiring major travel?	After-tax value plus time and health cost	Compensation, travel load, household constraints, your priorities

How a Decision uses this catalog

Bring the situation. WYF renders a Decision from the evidence on hand. Precompute attaches supporting calculations before synthesis. Validate tests a finished Decision against the matching method. Agents reach the same methods through the Agent API.

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