Evidence library
How to preserve evidence across organisations
Cross-organisational workflows need a shared review boundary without forcing every participant to use the same system.
Definition
The precise question
Evidence continuity across organisations means the decision-relevant context, provenance, authority and limitations remain intelligible after handover.
Reference model
From category to independent review
Decision assurance
Decision evidence
VES decision envelope
Evidence objects
Independent review
The envelope can link model output, runtime records, policy versions, authority records, claims documents, human rationale, external data and approvals while preserving each source's declared limits.
Insurance example
What this looks like in practice
A carrier receives a delegated claim package that links the MGA's evidence, binder authority, human approval and settlement commitment.
Evidence map
What a reviewer needs to see
- Stable decision identity and source issuer
- Authority and applicability at each handoff
- Integrity, relationship, limitations and replay reference
Preserve the relationship
The important handoff is not only the file. It is the relationship between the source, the decision, the authority and the commitment. That relationship should travel with the package.
A careful exchange
- Share only decision-relevant objects
- Retain source and issuer identity
- Declare what was relied upon and what remains contextual
- Make limitations visible to the receiving reviewer
The VES connection
A published evidence structure
VES 1.2 provides a portable envelope around native evidence while leaving source ownership and formats intact.
Read VES 1.2 for the published Decision Envelope, Evidence Object and verification model.
Boundary
A shared envelope does not resolve contractual, legal or data-governance questions between counterparties.
Frequently asked
What does how to preserve evidence across organisations address?
Evidence continuity across organisations means the decision-relevant context, provenance, authority and limitations remain intelligible after handover.
Does this establish that a decision was correct or compliant?
A shared envelope does not resolve contractual, legal or data-governance questions between counterparties.