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Decision science for high‑stakes organizations

Your gut is a data set.
Decide better.

Intuition and information are partners. Volley gives leaders a method for when they disagree: set the bar before you see the data, weigh the ingredients with your team, and never make a decision you cannot explain.

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Volley Signals™ · verified field reports over reference data · global to local

Trusted by

  • Strategic Resource Group
  • Assemblies of God
  • Coca-Cola Consolidated
  • BLESS
  • Transform Iran
  • Bible Correspondence Course of Turkey
  • Biblica
  • GospelFund
  • YMCA
  • Heroic Media
  • Global Media Outreach
  • Radical
  • Aerocell
  • Greenscape
  • Kane County Landscape Materials and Supply
  • Southwest Greens
  • Two Sisters Farms
  • Three Little Pigs Trucking

One thesis, three altitudes

We engage. We deliver. We equip.

Decision Science is the through-line. We engage for years inside the systems you already run, deliver a platform for verified evidence, and equip every decision maker with an app.

The method, in Matt's words

Watch a decision get made.

"When the two disagree, that's the cheapest research you'll ever get." Five rules turn that disagreement into a better decision.

  1. Rule 01

    Set the bar before you see the data.

    Make your gut testify. Before you open the report or run the model, write down what you expect and the result that would change your mind. Say it to your team.

    The bar goes on the record before a single number arrives.

  2. Rule 02

    Check confirming data as hard as contradicting data.

    If the numbers agree with you, audit them as aggressively as the numbers that do not. We are just not wired to be contrarian to our own beliefs.

    The data comes in. The rows that agree with the bar get audited first.

  3. Rule 03

    Make sure the data answers your question.

    Every data set answers somebody's question. Make sure it's yours, or you end up precisely wrong and only generally right.

    The question is pinned to the record, so the data has to answer it, not a neighbor of it.

  4. Rule 04

    Decide on the ingredients, not just the answer.

    Name the criteria and weigh them before you argue about the winner. Not everything matters equally; saying so is just not wanting to do the work.

    Criteria and weights are set in the open. Not everything matters equally.

  5. Rule 05

    Never make a decision you can't explain.

    If you cannot say how you got there, the tool decided, not you. The gut sets the bar. The data tests it. You stay accountable for the call.

    The call is written down with its reasons. Anyone can follow how it was made.

Decision recordExplained
Which three programs anchor next year's grant portfolio?

Set the bar before you see the data

"I expect the field-verified programs to rank in the top three. I would change my mind if their cost per verified outcome runs well above peers."

Ingredients, weighted

  • Verified impact40%
  • Strategic fit25%
  • Partner capacity20%
  • Cost per outcome15%

Data, audited

  • Program AConfirms the bar, audited
  • Program BConfirms the bar, audited
  • Program CContradicts: cost 1.4x peers

The call, with reasons

A, B and D. C dropped: its cost per verified outcome crossed the line set before the data arrived.

Red team: 3 challenges Premortem logged Explainable

The Volley platform

Four modules. One view of the truth.

Volley Relate™, Volley Decide™, Volley Witness™ and Volley Proof™ each solve a real problem on their own. Together they feed Volley Signals™, so a board, a donor or an executive sees verified, explainable, place-based insight.

Modules

Volley Relate™Stewardship CRM
Volley Decide™Decision engine
Volley Witness™Verified field evidence
Volley Proof™Data and agents
Volley Signals™Global, regional, local. One view of the truth.

Who decides

BoardsDashboards
ExecutivesMission briefs
DonorsVerified reports

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Customers

High stakes, measured in years.

Strategic Resource Group

active ministry projects tracked

Ministry-partner relationships, due diligence and executive reporting for a grantmaking intermediary serving the Greater Middle East.

"Volley has been an invaluable partner for many years."Courtney Powell, Operations Director, SRG

Assemblies of God

workstreams on one multi-year CRM roadmap

World Missions, U.S. Missions and the Secretariat moving toward a single source of truth for giving, missionaries and ministries.

Built: phased Salesforce roadmap, donation migration, plan-versus-actual visibility.

Coca-Cola Consolidated

in requests in a single on-cycle window

An end-to-end grantmaking system for corporate giving: grantee portal, due-diligence stages, tiered approvals and work queues.

Supported weekly since launch.

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How we work

Years, not projects.

Salesforce ships three major releases every year. A long-term partner keeps you ahead of them, not chasing them. We work alongside your admin, on a steady cadence, with direct access and documentation that survives turnover.

  1. Days 1-30

    Stabilize and learn

    Audit the org, fix what is fragile, and learn how decisions actually get made.

  2. Days 31-60

    Establish the rhythm

    Standing check-ins, one shared backlog, and a living knowledge base.

  3. Days 61-90

    Look ahead

    A roadmap ranked by your own weighted criteria, so the next plays are defensible.

In the press

Where leaders hear the method first.