What an audit trail needs to show
Logging that a system took an action isn't the same as being able to reconstruct why. The difference matters the first time someone asks.
On the operational work underneath regulated processes — what it costs, and what can be handed off.
Logging that a system took an action isn't the same as being able to reconstruct why. The difference matters the first time someone asks.
Making Tax Digital moved income tax reporting from annual to quarterly. The filing was the easy part to solve — the client chasing wasn't.
Most process automation works until the first thing that doesn't fit. What happens at that boundary explains why so much of the work is still manual.