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Glossary

Definitions for the terms used across product, trust and insights pages.

Decision provenance

A record of what an autonomous system did, on what basis, under whose authority, and how each item was captured so the decision can be reconstructed later.

Governance Evidence Record

The structured evidence record Custara prepares and preserves for review gates.

Review gate

A point where evidence is requested for decision-making, such as procurement, insurance, diligence, board review, regulatory inquiry or independent assessment.

Controlled export

A scoped evidence pack exported for a specific reviewer or gate.

Present, needs source, missing

A visibility state showing whether requested evidence is present, needs source support, or is missing.

Capture method

How a record item is known, for example infrastructure-generated, captured close to the event, reconstructed, or stated.

Independent assessment

A separate review of a record by an external assessor. Custara prepares the record and does not assess it.

Boundary

Custara prepares and preserves evidence records. It does not assess, score, classify, certify, rate, advise or recommend.