WHAT IT DOES
Decides what caused each operational exception and books it — like an accounting ledger. An append-only deduction ledger, FIFO with time-bounded layers. Every attribution traces back to source records.
CONTROLS IN PLACE
Deterministic SQL pipeline does all the maths. LLM only does bounded counterfactual reasoning on top. Cheap, non-frontier model handles thousands of cases a day.
AUDIT TRAIL
Append-only. No silent updates. Every decision references source records. No inference without evidence.
EVALUATION METHOD
Domain experts · binary judgement + reasoning · failure taxonomy · rolling daily review (Hamel Husain method)
WHY IT TRANSFERS
Same shape as sanctions screening, loan classification, insurance decisioning — anywhere you need to show your working.