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·7 min read·The DecisionChain Team

Tutorial: Logging Your First Auditable Decision

A step-by-step walkthrough from a fresh project to a verifier confirming your first record.

In this tutorial you go from an empty project to a decision record you can hand to an auditor.

1. Create a project

Sign in, create a project, and copy the API key.

2. Log a decision

Use the Python SDK snippet from the [SDK guide](/blog/sdk-guide-python) to log a single decision.

3. Verify the chain

decisionchain verify --project my-project --since 1h

The CLI walks the chain, recomputes each hash, and checks the head against the latest external anchor. A clean run prints OK · N records verified.

4. Export evidence

From the dashboard, export the evidence pack for the last 24 hours. That single ZIP is what most auditors will ask for on their first pass.