Audit Trail
The append-only record of governed events — submissions, reviews, approvals, and changes — that lets a decision be reconstructed and a change attributed.
An audit trail is the chronological, append-only record of the governed events around an output or decision: who submitted evidence, who reviewed it, who approved or returned it, and what changed. It is the mechanism through which a decision can be reconstructed after the fact.
The audit trail records that an event occurred and who was accountable for it. It does not record or expose the protected internal computation behind an output; it documents the governed actions taken around that output.
Because it is append-only, the audit trail supports defensibility: an organisation can show what was done, when, by whom, and on what basis, without rewriting history.
Evalio-specific meaning
The append-only record of governed events that lets a decision be reconstructed and a change attributed.
Not to be confused with
A window into methodology or internal computation.
Related module
Activity
Related artifact
Append-only audit event records
Usage note
The audit trail attributes governed actions; it is not a window into methodology. It evidences process integrity, not internal scoring.
Public-safe boundary
The trail attributes governed actions; it does not expose protected internal scoring.
Terms used alongside this one.
Compensation Governance
The structured decision discipline that makes pay positioning reviewable, consistent, and defensible across the organisation.
Workforce Decision Governance
The structured discipline that makes consequential people decisions reviewable, evidence-grounded, and defensible.
Decision Room
The governed surface where Evalio outputs are reviewed, discussed, and approved with their evidence posture and boundaries attached.