How a CTO Uses Decision Logs to Avoid Regret

Tech Leadership with Fexingo: Engineering Managers, CTOs, and Technical Leadership Conversations · Jul 18, 2026 · 7m

Every CTO makes dozens of consequential calls per quarter — which platform to bet on, whether to refactor now or later, whether to hire a specialist or grow a generalist. Most of those decisions get absorbed into the team's collective memory and then forgotten, along with the reasoning behind them. This episode drills into a practice that a handful of engineering leaders are adopting: the structured decision log. Lucas and Luna walk through a real example from a mid-stage SaaS CTO who started logging every major architectural and people decision with the context, the alternatives considered…