Every Decision Proves It Happened Correctly
Decision Traces capture not just what was decided, but why — recording the context consumed, policy evaluated, authority verified, and evidence produced at every step. Evidence is produced by construction, not attached after the fact. The specification itself becomes the auditable artifact
The Problem
Auditors Need Reasoning, Not Just Outcomes
Traditional logging captures what happened. It doesn't capture why. When a regulator asks "why did the AI approve this transaction?", enterprises scramble to reconstruct reasoning from scattered logs. Decision Traces make this question trivial — the answer was produced at decision time
Logged Actions
Application logs record the actions an agent took, but they do not capture the context, policy evaluation, or authority verification behind those actions
Show only completed actions
No context of decision-making
Policies evaluated are not recorded
Authority verification missing
Cannot explain reasoning from logs
Outcome: Decisions cannot be fully understood from logs alone
Post-Hoc Analysis
Trying to reconstruct decisions weeks later using fragmented logs leads to guesswork, as context may have changed and policies may have been updated
Logs are often incomplete
Context shifts over time
Policies get updated
Memory of actions is fragmented
Forensic guesswork is required
Outcome: Reconstructing past decisions is unreliable and prone to error
Lack Decision History
Organizations make the same types of decisions repeatedly, but without a searchable record of past decisions, they cannot learn from prior outcomes
Thousands of repeated decisions
No searchable past decisions
Hard to benchmark actions
Inconsistent approaches
No lessons from history
Outcome: Decision-making lacks historical insight and precedent guidance
How It Works
Evidence by Construction
Every decision that passes through Context OS automatically produces a complete trace — not as a side effect, but as a structural property of the decision process
Capture
At decision time, the trace captures: context consumed (entities, relationships, state), policy evaluated (version, rules, thresholds), authority verified (role, scope, delegation chain), and outcome produced
Index
Traces are indexed for search across multiple dimensions: by agent, by policy, by outcome type, by time range, by domain, and by similarity to other decisions
Replay
Any past decision can be replayed under different conditions: different policy version, different time, different context. Full counterfactual analysis
Core Capabilities
What Decision Traces Delivers
Automatically capture, verify, and analyze every decision—replay, search, and audit with full transparency and trust
Evidence by Construction
Every decision automatically produces a complete evidence package: context consumed, policy evaluated, authority verified, outcome generated. Nothing is logged after the fact
Decision Replay
Re-run any past decision under different conditions. What would have happened with last month's policy? With different authority? Full counterfactual analysis
Precedent Search
Find similar past decisions across the entire enterprise. How was this type of request handled before? What was the outcome? What policy applied?
Audit Packs
One-click evidence bundles: decision trace, policy version snapshot, context graph state, authority chain verification. Exportable in JSON, YAML, and PDF
Decision Analytics
Aggregate analysis across thousands of decisions. Approval rates by category, escalation patterns, policy effectiveness, agent accuracy trends
Immutable Decision Ledger
Tamper-evident record of every decision. Cryptographic hashing ensures traces cannot be modified after creation
Use Cases
Where Decision Traces Operates
See where decision traces drive impact—accelerate compliance, improve agents, and leverage enterprise-wide precedent
Integrations
Connects to Your Audit & Compliance Stack
Decision Traces integrates with existing audit, compliance, and analytics platforms
Audit & GRC
Analytics
Export Formats
SIEM & Logging
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
A complete trace records four elements: (1) Context consumed, (2) Policy evaluated, (3) Authority verified, (4) Outcome produced. All four are captured at decision time, not reconstructed after
Traditional compliance adds evidence after decisions. Evidence by construction creates proof during the decision—so nothing needs reconstruction later
Decision Replay re-runs past decisions under different policies, times, or contexts. It enables “what if” analysis for audits, impact assessment, and improvement
Yes. Decision Traces export to major GRC platforms and common formats, and can stream to SIEM tools for real-time compliance monitoring
Ready to See Decision Traces in Action?
See how Decision Traces deploys over your existing infrastructure in 4 weeks — with structural governance from day one