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Use case · Prove Compliance

Turn AI governance into evidence.

Every request and every governance action — who, what, when, under which policy — written to an append-only trail as it happens. When the auditor asks, the answer is an export, not a project.

audit · append-onlyRECORDING
Audit logs: every action with actor, status, and flags
The problem

Your controls exist. Your evidence doesn't.

Most organizations govern AI better than they can prove, because the proof lives in scattered provider logs, screenshots, and spreadsheets assembled after the fact.

Evidence by scavenger hunt

Each audit means weeks of pulling provider logs, exporting dashboards, and reconstructing who approved what from email threads.

Policy vs. practice

The policy says reviews happen and data rules apply. Nothing at runtime records they actually did, so attestations rest on trust, not records.

Frameworks moved in

SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA, and the EU AI Act now treat AI usage as a control to evidence, with retention rules your current logging was never built for.

Why it matters now

Evidence assembled after the fact is evidence that can be questioned.

Auditors and customers no longer accept 'we have a policy.' They ask who accessed which model, when, under what rule; and expect the answer from a system, not a memory.

Reconstructed evidence is expensive and fragile; every audit re-runs the same scramble, and every gap becomes a finding.

The lasting fix is architectural. When enforcement and evidence come from the same system, proving compliance stops being separate work.

The solution

The control plane writes your evidence as it works.

Route AI through one governed plane and the audit trail assembles itself; every request, approval, and override captured in a form you can hand over.

An append-only record of everything

Every request and governance action is written to an append-only trail: who acted, on what, when, under which policy, and the outcome. Entries are never rewritten or erased, and an attempt to tamper with the record is itself recorded. Even access to the audit trail is itself audited.

  • Who, what, when, and which policy per request
  • Append-only by construction, tamper attempts recorded
  • Audit access is itself audited
Audit logs: every action with actor, status, and flags

Approvals and overrides, captured live

Access requests, approvals, and escalations are recorded with their approver as they happen. Admin force-adds and FinOps budget overrides are specially flagged and require justification, and Governance Signals push them to the people accountable, in real time or as a digest. The exceptions auditors care about most are the best-documented.

  • Every approval recorded with its approver
  • Overrides and force-adds flagged, justification required
  • Governance Signals surface exceptions as they happen
Approvals queue: pending team, deployment, and budget requests

Evidence in the shape your auditors expect

The evidence your obligations require is captured by default. Export the trail as structured CSV or JSON into your SIEM or compliance stack, and search the full window when needed.

  • Data logs for SOC 2, HIPAA, SOX and other common compliance needs
  • Structured CSV / JSON exports available
  • Easily search and filter for the evidence you need
Budgets: hierarchy, managers, and utilization
FAQ

Questions about proving compliance.

What does the audit trail actually capture?
Who performed the action, on what, when, from where, under which policy, and the outcome, for inference requests and governance actions alike. Approvals, overrides, and guardrail detections all land in the same trail, and access to the trail is itself audited.
Can the trail be edited after the fact?
No. The trail is append-only by construction: entries can be added and read, never rewritten or erased, and an attempt to tamper with it is itself recorded. That's what makes it evidence rather than a log someone could tidy up.
Does the audit log expose our prompts to auditors?
No. Audit records capture metadata (actor, model, route, policy, and cost), never prompt or response payloads. You can demonstrate control over usage without handing over the content of that usage.
How long is the trail retained?
Nothing is dropped by default. A Workspace Admin sets the retention window, and any compliance regime you declare sets a minimum it can't go below. SOX, for example, sets a floor of seven years.
Can we ingest the trail into our SIEM?
Yes, in two ways. Export structured CSV or JSON on demand, or set up Data Forwarding to stream audit records continuously to your SIEM or observability stack over OTLP. Either way, the trail lands in the tools your security team already runs.
What about emergency actions and admin overrides?
They're the best-documented actions in the system. Force-adds and budget overrides are flagged and require a written justification, break-glass sessions carry their own flag, and Governance Signals push each of them to the people accountable. An exception is never an evidence gap.

Walk into the audit with the evidence ready.

Put the controls in the request path and the evidence writes itself.