Why Chain of Custody
An answer you can’t trace is a guess with confidence.
Speed and intelligence are table stakes. What separates a decision you can stand behind from one you merely made is whether you can show how you reached it.
What chain of custody means here
Every answer carries four things alongside the recommendation.
Sources
The exact data used to reach the conclusion.
Origin
Where each piece came from, and when it was current.
Policy
The trust and policy rules applied during retrieval, inherited from TrustHouse.
Reasoning path
How the inputs combined into the recommendation.
Why it decides whether you can act
“Chain of Custody turns the decision into a record at the moment it is made, rather than a reconstruction later.”
Grounded, not generated
Generated
Fills the gap with whatever is most plausible.
Grounded
Answers from your trusted business data and shows its work, the difference between impressing in a demo and standing up to scrutiny.
Questions we get asked
Straight answers to the recurring ones.
- What is data chain of custody?
- The record of where a piece of data came from, what happened to it, and how it contributed to a result.
- How is chain of custody different from an audit log?
- An audit log records that something happened. Chain of Custody records why the answer was what it was, including the data and policies behind it.
- What is a context engine?
- A layer holding the meaning of your business, its processes, terms, and relationships, so a question asked in your language reaches the right data and returns a grounded answer.
- Does chain of custody slow the answer down?
- No. It is produced as the answer is assembled rather than reconstructed afterwards.