CIRCULAR RESOLUTIONS

Make decisions between meetings with circular resolutions

Votes don't always happen when meetings do. Circular resolutions let the right people vote or approve between meetings, with the outcome recorded in the same decision log, on its own date.

WHAT CHANGES

One trusted record, in a meeting or between them

A decision that used to wait weeks, or vanish into email, now gets made and recorded in days, with the right people and a clean record.

Today, without a home for these decisions

  • The vote happens over email and chat, scattered across inboxes and threads
  • The record looks different every time: a thread here, a spreadsheet there, sometimes nothing at all
  • Who agreed, and what they reviewed, is hard to reconstruct later

With circular resolutions

  • Every decision meets the same standard, made in a meeting or between them
  • Documentation, voting, and audit trail, consistent and in one place
  • Decided in days instead of waiting for the next meeting, and stored where you’ll find it later

Bottom line: circular resolutions replace the scattered, inconsistent way between-meeting decisions happen today, with the same structure, voting, and record your team already trusts inside meetings.

HOW IT WORKS

How a circular resolution works

A circular resolution can start anywhere a decision does: an agenda item you didn't reach, a proposal from an admin, or a case brought to a committee. From there, one clear path:
  1. Package the topic

    Give it a title and a clear decision framing, and attach the pre-reads reviewers need. Your existing framework applies: RAPID, RACI, or custom.

  2. Circulate

    Reviewers open the materials and weigh in, all within Decisions.

  3. Decide

    The decision is reached through your configured voting or approval framework.

  4. Record

    The outcome lands automatically in the same decision log as your in-meeting decisions, on its own date.

HOW IT'S BUILT

Built to turn decisions into results

Run through your own framework

Vote or approve through RAPID, RACI, or a custom framework, the same rules you apply in meetings.

Everything documented

Title, decision framing, pre-reads, attachments, and custom fields travel with the resolution, so the reasoning is recorded, not remembered.

On the record, on its own date

Every resolution lands in the same decision log as your in-meeting decisions, on its own date, with a full audit trail of who reviewed and approved.

Controlled at every stage

Draft, Published, then Locked when Final or Rejected, with permissions enforced at each step.

Secure by where it lives

Every decision and its record is stored in your own Microsoft 365 tenant, not scattered across email and chat where things get lost or leaked. SOC 2 Type II compliant and ISO 27001:2022 certified.

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Integrated with everything else

Documented in one central decision log, stored alongside your in-meeting decisions, carried into your minutes, and searchable by the AI tools you already use, like Microsoft Copilot.

WHO IT'S FOR

Built for boards, committees, and busy teams

Most valuable where between-meeting decisions come up often and need a clear record.

Boards, committees, and supervisory bodies

Audit, risk, investment, and remuneration committees deciding between board meetings, with a record auditors can verify.

Leadership and management teams

Cross-functional calls outside the weekly cadence, from a pricing approval to a partnership alignment.

Project steering committees

Scope changes, budget reallocations, and milestone gates between formal reviews.

Any team

A general team aligning between syncs. The depth of documentation is up to you.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Common questions about circular resolutions

A circular resolution is a decision that needs a vote or approval from the right people between meetings, often urgently, with the relevant documents and information attached. The outcome is recorded in the same decision log as your in-meeting decisions.
They live in the same decision log, with the same audit trail. A decision made in a meeting is recorded with that meeting; a circular resolution is recorded on its own date, because the vote happened between meetings. Either way, it’s tracked, auditable, and in one place.
Decisions stores your meeting content, such as agendas, minutes, and decisions, exclusively in your organization's own Microsoft 365 under your existing security settings. Decisions employees have no access to your tenant. Decisions' Azure services and Azure OpenAI process AI requests but never retain inputs or outputs or use your content to train AI models. Decisions is SOC 2 Type II compliant and ISO 27001:2022 certified.
Circular resolutions are included in the Business+ and Executive plans. When you start Decisions free, every feature is unlocked, including circular resolutions, with no credit card required. Compare plans.
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