G-ATT
Reference Numbers
SHA-256
Content Integrity
Immutable
Audit Trail
Continuous
Generation
Governance software must produce attestations, or it is incomplete.
Notifications are not governance. Logs are not assurance.
Institutions require formal, reviewable, immutable artifacts.
Governance attestations do not replace financial audits or legal opinions;
they provide system-generated evidence of control operation suitable for
audit reliance and underwriting review.
Governance attestation generates formal artifacts that answer the question:
"Did this organization operate within its declared governance policies during this period?"
Governance Attestations (PDF)
Formal compliance reports with reference numbers (G-ATT-2026-001),
content hashes, and qualified compliance statements.
Suitable for board presentation and audit files.
Exception Registers
Normalized, immutable view of everything that deviated from policy:
exclusions, escalations, overrides, SLA breaches. Each with
unique reference numbers and resolution status.
Control Effectiveness Metrics
Quantified answers to "are our controls working?"
Response rates, SLA compliance, override patterns,
coverage metrics. Not logs. Measurements.
Attestations are generated continuously and bounded by defined reporting periods.
Unlike annual certifications, governance attestations provide ongoing evidence
of control operation.
Detection → Notification → Escalation → Resolution → Attestation
| | | | |
v v v v v
L5 Risk Alert with SLA-tracked Exception Period closes:
Triggers audit trail escalation documented formal artifact
chain generated
(all steps recorded with immutable timestamps)
Policy Snapshots
- Immutable capture of governance policy at attestation time
- Cryptographic hash prevents retroactive arguments
- Historical attestations reference historical rules
- Policy changes create new snapshots automatically
- Auditor-verifiable policy binding
Continuous Generation
- Monthly, quarterly, or on-demand periods
- Not dependent on manual compilation
- Statistics calculated from live system data
- PDF generation with professional formatting
- Third-party shareable with access logging
Immutability Guarantee: Once generated, attestations cannot be modified.
Reference numbers, content hashes, and timestamps are permanent.
This is what makes them suitable for institutional reliance.
Boards
Formal documentation of governance effectiveness.
Evidence that fiduciary duty is being met.
Quarterly attestations for board packages.
CPAs & Auditors
System-generated evidence for controls testing.
Policy snapshots showing rules at any point in time.
Exception registers with resolution documentation.
Insurance Underwriters
Quantified governance metrics for risk assessment.
Response rates and SLA compliance data.
Trend visibility for underwriting decisions.
Management Companies
Transition documentation with full governance history.
Portable attestation records.
No institutional memory loss during turnover.
Escrow Officers
Disclosure packet evidence of governance controls.
Formal artifacts for due diligence files.
One-click shareable proof with access logging.
Legal Counsel
Contemporaneous documentation for liability defense.
Evidence that controls existed and were operating.
Immutable records resistant to challenge.
Manual exception logs in spreadsheets
Automated exception register with reference numbers
Ad-hoc explanations when auditors ask
Pre-generated attestation artifacts ready for review
Post-hoc scrambling to document controls
Continuous evidence of control effectiveness
"We sent notifications" as governance claim
Quantified response rates and SLA compliance
Email threads as audit trail
Immutable decision records with policy binding
Institutional memory lost with board turnover
Governance history preserved in system artifacts
Attestations include quantified metrics that answer the board question:
"Are our controls working? Do people respond when they fire?"
Escalation Metrics
- Response rate: % of escalations acknowledged
- Mean time to acknowledge
- SLA compliance rate
- Chain escalation frequency
- Resolution rate and time
Override Metrics
- Override rate: % of transactions with bypass
- Override reasons distribution
- Approver analysis
- Active override count
- Trend direction (improving/stable/degrading)
Coverage Metrics
Notification coverage (% of exceptions with documented notification),
escalation coverage, resolution rate. Gaps are visible.
Overall Score
Weighted effectiveness score (0–100) summarizing response, coverage,
override, and health metrics (with underlying detail preserved).
Attention Items
System-identified issues requiring management attention:
SLA breaches, pending escalations, invariant violations.
Attestations are designed for external distribution. Share with CPAs,
insurers, and escrow officers without requiring system access.
Shareable Tokens
Time-limited access links for external parties.
No login required. Automatic expiration.
Access Logging
Complete record of who viewed what when.
Auditable access trail for sensitive documents.
Integrity Verification
Recipients can verify content hash matches.
Proof that document hasn't been modified.
Software that produces alerts produces notifications.
Software that produces attestations produces assurance.
Governance attestation is not a feature. It is the formal expression
of whether an organization is governing itself properly.