Building a listed tool
Achint Srivastava
VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author, named behind the Microsoft-Decision-1 listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Achint builds
Microsoft-Decision-1 E · Decision models
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a Microsoft model, post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, that scores fixed answer options with a calibrated probability for each. It is in public preview on Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter, at $0.042 per million input tokens.
VP of Software Engineering, Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Bill Gates Co-founder, Microsoft
- Brandon Werner Principal Product Architect; Agent ID creator
- Dan Hellem Principal Product Manager, Azure DevOps
- Darrel Miller Partner API Architect
- Dong Li Partner Director; Head of Product, Azure Speech and Voice Agents
- Eric Imasogie Senior Product Manager; Microsoft Learn MCP server owner
- Faraz Siddiqui Senior Technical Program Manager; Product Manager for Azure Maps Geospatial APIs
- Gary Pretty Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Copilot Studio
- Julie Strauss Vice President, AI Sales, Marketing and Incubations
- Paul Allen Co-founder, Microsoft
- Pieter de Bruin Technical Program Manager; Learn partnerships and MCP integrations
- Sandeep K Sen Product Manager, Azure MCP and CoreAI
- Shawn Henry Principal Group Product Manager; Product Lead, Microsoft Agent Framework
- Tianqi Zhang Principal Software Engineering Manager; Learn knowledge-discovery and MCP team
- Vamshidhar Kommineni Group Product Manager, Azure Storage
- Yury Semikhatsky Principal Software Engineer; active Playwright MCP maintainer
Questions
Who is Achint Srivastava?
Achint Srivastava is VP of Software Engineering at Office of the CTO; Decision-1 launch author.
What does Microsoft make?
Anchor Terminal lists Microsoft-Decision-1 from Microsoft. Microsoft-Decision-1 is a Microsoft model, post-trained from Qwen3.5-9B, that scores fixed answer options with a calibrated probability for each. It is in public preview on Microsoft Foundry and OpenRouter, at $0.042 per million input tokens.
How are Achint's tools graded?
Microsoft-Decision-1 is graded E, 39.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
Sources (11)
- https://commandline.microsoft.com/microsoft-decision-1-model-foundry/
- https://www.linkedin.com/posts/achint_microsoft-decision-1-our-model-for-fast-activity-7514401721931161600-OkR5
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/achint
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/leadership/bill-gates
- https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/verified-accounts
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft/
- https://x.com/Microsoft/with_replies
- https://www.microsoft.com/
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-services/cognitive-services-support-options
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/foundry-models/how-to/use-foundry-models-microsoft-decision
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