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Evidence-led · Remote-first · Jurisdiction-neutral core
AI decision reconstruction audit
A reconstruction audit asks a simple operational question: if a material AI-assisted decision were challenged months later, could the organisation rebuild the relevant chain from evidence without depending on staff memory?
Control model
What Tracewarden tests
The assessment is scoped to evidence, governance and operational control. It does not convert a jurisdiction-neutral review into an unsupported claim of local legal compliance.
Rebuild the chain
Trace source material, AI-assisted processing, outputs, human interventions, exceptions and the final accountable action.
Identify missing links
Separate unavailable evidence, weak evidence, undocumented assumptions and records that exist but cannot be reliably connected.
Test human control
Determine whether the reviewer had enough information, competence and authority to make the intervention meaningful.
Test third-party evidence
Check whether vendor records and change information needed for reconstruction are accessible or contractually recoverable.
Produce remediation priorities
Convert reconstruction failures into concrete control, logging, workflow or governance improvements.
Evidence before assertion
The practical test is reconstructibility.
A control is stronger when the organisation can show what happened from records: the relevant system, source material, AI-assisted output, human intervention, exception path and final accountable action. Tracewarden separates fact, inference, limitation and remediation so findings remain tied to the evidence actually reviewed.
Published researchTraceability, human validation and defensible AI use in legal work.Review publication →
Founder accountabilityNamed professional responsibility rather than anonymous assurance language.Founder profile →
Observed failuresDocumented cases translated into governance lessons.Open Observatory →
Assessment boundaryLocal-law conclusions are escalated instead of guessed.Review boundary →
Related assessment paths
Continue through the evidence chain
Next step
Start with one material workflow, not a generic AI inventory.
Tracewarden can scope a focused assessment around a decision path, control question or vendor dependency and define the evidence needed before the review begins.