Point-in-time evidence
Evidence captured at, or demonstrably applicable to, the execution boundary.
Decision Assurance
Decision evidence
Decision evidence concerns the basis of a specific consequential organisational act, not merely the event that followed it.
Maintained by VeriscopicLast reviewed 2026-09-24
The complete question
A reviewer needs to understand what evidence was available, what was relied upon, what authority applied, which governing conditions were in force, what systems contributed, what human judgement was exercised and what the organisation committed to.
A recorded action is not necessarily a reviewable decision.
Elements of a reviewable decision-state
Business authority
The role, mandate or delegated authority that could approve, override or commit.
Human judgement
Reasoning, review, exception handling or override that materially shaped the act.
System contribution
Rules, models, workflows or external systems that materially influenced the act.
Organisational commitment
The financial, contractual, customer or operational consequence accepted by the organisation.
Replay path
A clear route through the package that lets an independent reviewer follow the decision.
Useful distinctions
Decision context should distinguish evidence that was available, relied upon, excluded or superseded. Evidence integrity covers references, hashes, signatures and declared provenance where available; not every source must already be cryptographically signed.
Runtime records can show what a system did. Governance evidence can show how an organisation is controlled. Decision evidence connects those inputs to the organisational commitment.