Decision Assurance
Glossary
A shared vocabulary makes the boundaries between runtime, governance and decision evidence easier to keep precise.
Maintained by VeriscopicLast reviewed 2026-09-24
Defined terms
- Evidence Standard
- A published set of principles or requirements for how evidence is captured, described, preserved and reviewed.
- Decision Evidence
- Evidence linked to the basis of a specific consequential organisational act.
- Runtime Evidence
- Records of what a system, model or agent did, including actions, outputs and policy events.
- Governance Evidence
- Evidence about an organisation’s controls, roles, policies or governance posture.
- Decision-State
- The material evidence, authority, governing conditions, system contribution, judgement and commitment relevant at execution.
- Execution Boundary
- The point at which a recommendation, analysis or workflow result becomes an organisational commitment.
- Evidence Object
- A source artefact or reference described with provenance, integrity, applicability, decision relation and limitations.
- Decision Envelope
- A structured record linking a decision to its evidence objects, authority, conditions, judgement, commitment and verification.
- Point-in-Time Evidence
- Evidence captured at, or demonstrably applicable to, the execution boundary.
- Evidentiary Continuity
- The ability for decision-relevant evidence to remain intelligible when people, systems or organisations change.
- Reconstruction Burden
- The operational work required to reassemble why a decision was made after its original state has fragmented.
- Reconstruction Gap
- The difference between the decision-state available at the time and what can later be assembled.
- Replay Path
- A review route through evidence and context that lets someone follow the basis of a decision.
- Business Authority
- The mandate or accountable role able to approve, override or commit the organisation.
- Organisational Commitment
- The action, acceptance, rejection or obligation by which the organisation becomes committed.
- Independent Review
- Assessment of a declared decision-state without relying solely on an originating interface or assertion.