Glossary term
Audit-ready decision
Also: Audit-proof decision, Supervisory-ready decision
A decision whose record is structured, evidence-backed and stakeholder-signed to a level that a third-party auditor, a supervisor or a board reviewer can reconstruct the reasoning without interviewing the original team.
An audit-ready decision is the destination that decision infrastructure is designed to reach. The bar is deliberately high: the memo must stand on its own, months after the decision, without clarifications from the original decision-maker.
Empirically, audit-ready correlates with a Readiness Score above 70 in DecisionOS memos: criteria coverage at or above the threshold, evidence quality above the assumed-claim threshold, risk analysis with named probabilities and severities, stakeholder alignment with stance captured, and formal governance with explicit owner, approver and next steps.
Audit-ready is not an end state; it is a property the decision has to achieve before being presented, signed or exported. Organisations that require audit-readiness make it a release gate rather than an afterthought.
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