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What an audit actually asks for — and why most systems cannot answer
Auditors do not want a report. They want to know who did what, when, and what evidence supports it.
Reports are not evidence
A generated summary tells an auditor what a system believes today. It does not show how a record changed, who changed it, or what it looked like before. That gap is where audits stall.
Attribution has to be automatic
If logging an action is a separate step, it will be skipped under pressure. The only durable approach is to capture attribution as a side effect of the work itself.
Documents expire quietly
Certificates and approvals lapse without anyone noticing until they are needed. Expiry needs to be tracked as data with something actively chasing the renewal.