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Lineage Without Decision State Fails Audits
Your registry can prove a model existed. It cannot prove what an approver reviewed before clicking approve. That gap surfaces during the first serious audit, six months after the promotion, when nobody in the room can reconstruct the screen the approver saw. Here is the record-design fix.
May 23, 2026
The Promotion Event Is the Evidence
An auditor asks what your approver actually saw before signing off a credit model six months ago. Your registry, your ticketing system, and your wiki each hold a fragment. None of them, stitched together, answers the question. Here is the single immutable record that does, and how to decide which promotions deserve it.
May 15, 2026
Registry Metadata Is Not Promotion Evidence
Your model registry knows the artifact. It does not know the decision. When internal audit asks what the approver was looking at the moment they signed off on a credit-risk model, lineage graphs and metric snapshots will not answer the question. A single immutable promotion event will. Here is the schema and the routing rule.
May 13, 2026
What the Approver Actually Saw Before Signoff
A credit-risk model gets promoted, the registry records the version and metrics, and six months later an auditor asks what the approver actually saw on screen before clicking approve. Nobody can answer. This is the gap between artefact state and decision state, and what to seal into a single immutable promotion event.
May 9, 2026
Freeze the Decision, Not Just the Weights
Six months after a credit-decisioning model goes live, the audit walkthrough begins. The registry has every field you'd expect: version, metrics, dataset hash, approver name. None of it answers the only question that matters: what did the approver actually see when they clicked approve? This is the gap between inventory and evidence, and how to close it.
May 8, 2026