How AXIOM Works
The lifecycle of a regulated decision.
AXIOM treats every model decision as a long-lived artifact, not a ticket. From the moment a decision is proposed to the moment an examiner asks for it 18 months later, every stage is captured, owned, and reconstructable.
The eight stages
- Input. Decision proposed. Title, intent, originating system, named proposer, immutable timestamp.
- Context. Why now and who is affected. Business trigger, upstream dependencies, downstream systems, linked policies.
- Assumptions. What must remain true. Each assumption stated explicitly with owner, revalidation trigger, confidence, and source evidence.
- Decision. The decision itself in plain language. Rationale, alternatives considered, risks accepted, append-only versioning.
- Approval. A named accountable human signs. Single accountable owner, final approver, AI advisory output retained as part of the trail, never as the approver.
- Evidence. Inputs frozen at decision time. Snapshots, document references with stable identifiers, hash-pinned external evidence, exportable bundle.
- Revalidation. Trigger-driven assumption review. Scheduled cycles, event-based triggers, contradiction surfacing, deterministic Decision Debt scoring.
- Audit Reconstruction. Produced on demand 18 months later. Full lineage replay, examiner-ready bundle, version diff, defensible under SR 11-7 scrutiny.
The shipping gate
Every feature has to pass one question: can a Head of MRM, 18 months from now, produce this decision end-to-end on demand and test it against SR 11-7 expectations without relying on memory, scattered logs, or missing context? If the answer is no, the feature does not ship.
What the examiner sees
When an SR 11-7 examiner or internal validator requests a specific decision 18 months later, AXIOM produces a single audit reconstruction packet: the original decision, all prior versions, the frozen company context at the time of approval, every assumption with its revalidation history, the complete evidence bundle, and a full audit trail of who did what and when. No spreadsheet reconstruction, no email archaeology, no reliance on memory.
AXIOM supports SR 11-7-style decision reconstruction. It is built for audit review. It does not make any certification claim.