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What makes governance operational?

The foundational concepts behind EAB: not what compliance requires, but how an operational governance layer enforces it — with structure, attribution, evidence, and reconstructability.

Infrastructure & Architecture
What is an operational governance layer?
Infrastructure that enforces how compliance decisions are made, attributed, evidenced, and reconstructed.
What is a compliance operating system?
Integrated infrastructure managing the full governance lifecycle across AI Act, GDPR, and NIS2.
Documentation vs governance?
Documentation is output. Governance is system. One describes. The other enforces.
Tool vs governance platform?
A tool helps users complete tasks. A platform controls the process itself.
What is process integrity?
The governance process is controlled and verifiable. EAB controls process integrity — legal outcomes remain the organisation's responsibility.
What is a system of record?
The single authoritative source for all AI governance data — inventory, classifications, obligations, evidence, and audit trail.
Decision Records & Traceability
What is an AI governance record?
A living data object connecting system, classification, obligations, evidence, approvals, and history.
What is a structured decision record?
Captures what was decided, by whom, on what basis, with what evidence, under which legal version.
What is governance chain of custody?
The unbroken, attributed sequence from registration through screening, approval, and re-screening.
What is a reconstructable decision path?
If it cannot be reconstructed, it cannot be defended.
What is a compliance snapshot?
An immutable point-in-time record preserving governance state at the moment of decision.
What is legal-version anchoring?
Binds every decision to the specific regulation version consulted.
What is legal-source traceability?
Connects every governance field to the specific article, paragraph, or annex it derives from.
What is a governance event?
Any attributed action that changes an AI system's compliance state.
Accountability & Workflow
What is named accountability?
Every governance decision has a specific person responsible — not a team, not a department.
What is responsibility mapping?
Assigns specific roles to specific people for each AI system and each governance step.
What is approval workflow?
The enforced sequence from screening through supervisor review and accountable sign-off.
What is a reviewable decision?
A decision that can be examined by another person and evaluated from the record alone.
Why does governance need ownership?
Without named ownership, decisions cannot be attributed, reconstructed, or defended.

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