Visual Decision Automation for Expert Systems and DSS
VisiRule is a versatile visual decision automation platform which enables business professionals to design and deploy decision support systems (DSS) and expert systems without coding. It provides a graphical way to model complex rules, decisions, and logic flows.
Combine Rule‑Based Reasoning with LLM Intelligence
By integrating VisiRule with modern LLMs, you can build powerful neuro‑symbolic AI (NSAI) solutions that blend curated, rule-based inferencing with flexible LLM-driven reasoning..This hybrid approach delivers accuracy, transparency, and adaptability.
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A Complete Visual Environment for Decision Modeling
VisiRule brings together the strengths of expert systems, business rules, rapid prototyping, and decision tree software in one unified tool. The VisiRule package includes:
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A dedicated visual editor for drawing decision models
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A one‑click code generator that produces executable logic directly from your diagrams
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Instant testing and validation of rules and flows
This visual authoring approach removes the need to translate expert knowledge into technical code or “computer gobbledygook”.
Automate Complex, High‑Value Decisions
Let VisiRule handle the common but non‑trivial issues that occupy your staff and clients. Automating these decisions improves consistency, reduces operational cost, and frees experts to focus on higher‑value work.
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Industry Applications and Real‑World Use Cases
VisiRule is a powerful expert systems platform used to design and deliver automated decision solutions across a wide range of industries. Its visual modelling approach makes it easy to capture expert knowledge and deploy it as intelligent, interactive applications.
Medical Decision Support
Design and deliver medical decision support systems that guide clinicians, ensure best‑practice pathways, and improve diagnostic consistency.
Legal & Compliance Automation
Create legal chatbots and compliance assistants that help train new staff, interpret policies, and ensure organisations follow regulatory requirements.
Knowledge Extraction from Spreadsheets
Resurface and repurpose valuable company knowledge trapped inside Excel spreadsheets, transforming it into scalable, interactive HTML decision tools.
Diagnostics & Troubleshooting
Build self‑service troubleshooting flowcharts that diagnose problems, recommend repairs, and reduce the burden on technical support teams.
Sales Configuration & Quotation
Increase sales efficiency with online product configurators and automated quotation systems that guide customers to the right options.
Interactive Guided Product Tours
Create rich, interactive product tours that combine videos, images, and conditional logic flows to deliver personalised, engaging user experiences.
While industry tends to concentrate on break/fix question and answer decision tree systems, academics have used VisiRule much more broadly. Access our collection of advanced expert systems solution papers on the VisiRule web-site.
Expert System Applications Made Easy
Build Agentic and Hybrid AI Solutions
VisiRule provides a powerful foundation for creating intelligent, semi‑autonomous systems that combine rule‑based reasoning, LLM capabilities, and distributed agent technologies.
Agentic AI with Chimera
Agentic AI systems exhibit agency — they can initiate actions, pursue goals, and operate proactively. By combining VisiRule with Chimera, LPA’s agent toolkit, you can design and deploy distributed, semi‑autonomous agent solutions that coordinate tasks, monitor events, and respond intelligently to changing conditions.
Hybrid AI: Rules + LLMs
Use the VisiRule AI Bridge to build advanced hybrid AI applications that blend:
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Deterministic, rule‑based expert system logic
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Flexible, natural‑language reasoning from LLMs
This neuro‑symbolic approach delivers accuracy, explainability, and adaptability in a single solution.
Rapid Creation of Expert Systems
VisiRule is easy to use yet capable of modelling arbitrary complexity. You can quickly create, refine, and immediately test your decision logic, enabling rapid prototyping and fast iteration of expert systems and decision flows.
Test & Validate
VisiRule AutoAudit allows you to validate your charts by executing them repeatedly with structured test data and comparing the outputs. This ensures your models behave consistently, reliably, and transparently before deployment.
Deploy Solutions Anywhere
One Model, Multiple Delivery Options
VisiRule separates logic from presentation, allowing a single decision model to be deployed across multiple channels and environments. Build your chart once, then deliver it wherever your users are.
Online Web Server Delivery
Publish charts server‑side using dynamic web forms that present questions, capture user inputs, and access corporate resources or web services. Deploy inside the firewall or via a hosted cloud service for maximum flexibility.
Offline Mobile Delivery
Deliver charts offline using a dedicated JavaScript rules engine that runs entirely on the client device. This enables fast, responsive decision tools that work without network connectivity.
Connected & Embedded Delivery
Embed your decision logic directly into other systems as:
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REST‑based business rules services
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Intelligent logical chatbots
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Containerised components for distributed environments
This makes it easy to integrate VisiRule models into enterprise workflows, mobile apps, and automated processes.
Turn your Experts into Meta-Experts
What are Expert Systems?
Expert systems are computer programs designed to solve complex problems and make decisions in a way that mirrors human expertise. Since the 1980s, they have been a core part of Artificial Intelligence, enabling organisations to capture specialist knowledge and apply it consistently at scale.
VisiRule provides a visual environment for building AI expert systems that capture, validate, and reuse valuable know‑how. These systems can be deployed as self‑service tools, helping customers and colleagues access expert guidance whenever they need it.
Knowledge is Precious
Experts often possess deep, tacit knowledge — the kind that is difficult to articulate or document. They may know how to fix an appliance, diagnose a fault, or implement a process, but not necessarily how they know it.
VisiRule supports the incremental exploration and direct execution of knowledge, helping experts become meta‑experts — people who understand not just what they know, but how they know it. This makes it easier to capture expertise accurately and transform it into reliable, repeatable decision logic.
Visual Decision Support Systems
Diagrams provide a clear, intuitive way to represent decision logic — one that business users can understand, review, and refine. Visual models make it easier to share expertise, build consensus, and ensure transparency across teams.
After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. VisiRule turns those pictures into executable decision support systems, combining clarity with practical, real‑world impact.
Low Code No Code Development
Programming via Flow Charts
VisiRule enables programming via flow charting, allowing rapid prototyping and intuitive knowledge capture. Like tools such as Visio or MindMap, you draw a model — but with VisiRule, the model is instantly executable. This makes it easy for domain experts to contribute directly without needing to write code.
Low-Code No-Code Development
VisiRule is a powerful Low‑Code / No‑Code platform. Its built‑in code generator transforms visual models into executable logic immediately, enabling fast testing, iteration, and deployment. This dramatically reduces development time and removes technical bottlenecks.
Logical Framework
VisiRule is built on a robust, multi‑layered logical framework. This underlying logic engine validates and verifies the content of your charts, ensuring consistency, correctness, and transparency. It provides a rigorous foundation for building reliable expert systems and decision automation solutions.
Document Automation
Automate the Generation of Legal and Business Documents
VisiRule includes a powerful document generation engine that automates the creation of high‑quality documents in multiple formats, including text, PDF, XML, HTML, and RTF. Your decision models can produce complete, consistent documents automatically based on the answers gathered during a session.
Dynamic Text Selection & Intelligent Insertion
By associating decision models with tagged document templates (boilerplates), VisiRule can dynamically assemble documents using conditional logic. This goes far beyond inserting simple values — you can apply complex rules to determine:
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Which clauses to include
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How paragraphs should be structured
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What variations apply to specific scenarios
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Which legal or business terms should be inserted
The result is a fully automated, logic‑driven document that reflects the precise circumstances of each case.
Knowledge Validation and Maintenance
Automated Testing and Regression Testing
VisiRule AutoAudit provides a comprehensive test harness that allows charts to be executed against large sets of test data. You can compare results across different versions of a chart to perform regression testing, ensuring your decision logic remains consistent, accurate, and reliable as it evolves.
Examine and Understand Your Knowledge
VisiRule includes a built‑in Truth Table Generator that reveals the underlying logic within your charts. This makes it easier to inspect, validate, and refine your knowledge models, ensuring they behave exactly as intended.
Analytics for Continuous Improvement
VisiRule Analytics tracks how, when, and where your charts are used. These insights help you understand user behaviour, identify bottlenecks, and update your models to improve performance and accuracy over time.
Scalable and Cost‑Effective Delivery
VisiRule combines lean AI technology with modern, cloud‑based deployment options to deliver a scalable, affordable solution. Whether you’re supporting a small team or a global enterprise, VisiRule adapts to your workload and grows with your organisation.
Explain Automated Reasoning
Explainable AI and Transparent Reasoning
It’s essential that an automated decision system can explain how it reached its conclusions. VisiRule provides full reasoning transparency: each execution path can be explained in terms of HOW the decision was reached, WHAT rules were applied, and WHY a particular outcome was chosen. This stands in clear contrast to opaque neural‑network “black box” models, which typically cannot explain their results.
Sharing Conclusions and Session Data
Every user session—including all answers, intermediate calculations, and final conclusions—can be logged for audit, review, or integration. These session records can be distributed via email or pushed into a database, making it easy to share outcomes, support compliance, and feed downstream systems or analytics.
Visual Explanations
You can attach images, diagrams, or videos directly to questions and decision points to provide rich visual explanations. This helps users understand complex concepts, follow the reasoning process, and engage more confidently with the decision tool.
