Decision Governance

How TraceLogic governs regulated decisions.

The home page says TraceLogic governs regulated decisions. This page explains how. Ten controls that turn an informal process into a governed one, with human accountability preserved at every step.

Ten controls, one governed lifecycle

Each control is a practical part of the decision lifecycle. Together they cover intake, evaluation, review, approval, execution, and replay.

01
Human-in-the-Loop Control
TraceLogic does not autonomously approve or execute regulated decisions. Human review, approval, attestation, and execution responsibility remain part of the governed lifecycle.
02
Separation of Duties
The person who creates or submits a case should not be the same person who approves it. The reviewer approves or returns the decision, while execution is controlled separately.
03
RAG-Assisted Intake Governance
TraceLogic uses RAG-assisted intake to help structure documents and case inputs, but the captured evidence remains part of a governed process rather than an uncontrolled AI output.
04
Policy-Based Decision Checks
Decisions are checked against configured policy rules, requirements, and controls. The policy version and rule path are visible as part of the decision evidence.
05
Frozen Decision Artifacts
TraceLogic stores a decision artifact containing the evidence, policy result, decision output, review status, and governance metadata. This becomes the record that later replay relies on.
06
Governed Execution Gate
Execution is not treated as a normal button click. It is controlled through approval, attestation, token handoff, and role separation.
07
Evidence-Driven Replay
Replay uses stored evidence only. TraceLogic can show what happened at the time of the decision without relying on live recomputation or memory.
08
Trust Dashboard
The Trust Dashboard gives a business-readable view of governance evidence, control status, decision trace, replay evidence, and accountability indicators.
09
Audit and Complaint Support
TraceLogic helps teams reconstruct decision evidence for audit, complaint review, internal QA, control testing, and management oversight.
10
Governance Boundaries
TraceLogic supports governance, but does not replace legal advice, compliance ownership, human accountability, or final business judgement.

Boundaries and not-yet-claims

TraceLogic supports decision governance. It does not replace it. The platform is currently in pilot stage. The following claims are not made:
Not claiming ISO 42001 certification
Not claiming regulatory approval
Not claiming guaranteed compliance
Not claiming full audit readiness
Not claiming enterprise production readiness
Not a legal or compliance advice tool
Not a replacement for compliance teams, legal teams, risk teams, audit teams, or human judgement

Recommendations and pilot findings should be validated with the organisation's legal, compliance, or professional advisers.

Good governance is more than a decision log.

It requires documented evidence of impact analysis, data concerns, design choices, evaluation results, vendor considerations, training expectations, control commitments, approval conditions, monitoring findings, incident records, update history, and decisions to narrow or extend use over time.

TraceLogic is designed to support this discipline by making decision evidence, policy context, human review, execution control, and replay records easier to capture, review, and explain. The documentation itself remains the responsibility of the organisation operating the decision process.

01
Impact Analysis
A documented view of how the decision process affects customers, operations, conduct risk, compliance, controls, and human review, including the harm scenarios if a decision is wrong or evidence is missing.
02
Data Concerns
A record of data sources, quality and completeness risks, personal and sensitive data considerations, retention assumptions, access controls, minimisation, and known data limitations.
03
Design Choices
Why the system is built the way it is: human-in-the-loop control, Separation of Duties, frozen artifacts, replay from stored evidence, token-controlled execution, and policy version visibility.
04
Evaluation Results
A log of how the system has been tested in controlled scenarios: demo cases, policy rule testing, replay validation, role separation, execution gate, known limitations, and open risks.
05
Vendor Considerations
A register of external dependencies: hosting, database, AI model providers, document processing, authentication, libraries, with vendor risk, data processing implications, and fallback considerations.
06
Training Expectations
What operators, reviewers, managers, and audit viewers need to understand: how to interpret outputs, how to read replay evidence, how to handle returns, and how to escalate exceptions.
07
Control Commitments
The controls the system is designed around: human-in-the-loop, Separation of Duties, role-based access, frozen artifacts, controlled execution, replay, audit traceability, and the limits of what is automated.
08
Approval Conditions
The conditions required before a decision can move forward: evidence captured, policy checks completed, review and approval recorded, attestation, token issued, and integrity preserved.
09
Monitoring Findings
What is observed after decisions are processed: decision and execution status, replay availability, evidence completeness, role separation breaches, returned cases, and known monitoring gaps.
10
Incident Records
A record of issues, exceptions, and control failures: what happened, impact, root cause, immediate action, corrective action, owner, status, lessons, and whether use should continue, narrow, or pause.
11
Update History
A versioned log of changes: what changed, why, who approved, modules affected, risk of change, testing completed, rollback considerations, and known side effects.
12
Decision to Narrow or Extend Use
A periodic record reviewing whether use should be expanded, paused, narrowed, or limited: monitoring evidence, incident history, control maturity, data readiness, owner, and next review date.
What TraceLogic is and is not, on documentation. TraceLogic is designed to support disciplined governance documentation and evidence capture. It does not automatically complete all governance documentation. It does not guarantee compliance, claim formal audit readiness, ISO 42001 certification, or regulatory approval. Documentation ownership, review cadence, and approval remain with the organisation operating the decision process.

See the governance model in motion

A pilot demo walks through each control on a real-world regulated decision, end to end.