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Follow the evidence without losing its revision

The process brings records from several owners into one inspectable chain. A graph makes the relationships queryable; approval records establish which versions belong in the package.

Follow the process
Business goal
Manage risk
Business metric
Audit findings

Build and check the evidence package

Agree on the product baseline, required evidence types, and relationship meanings with quality owners. Use controlled source identifiers rather than links to whichever PDF happens to be newest.

The task in this example

Show the evidence for R-112, the occlusion-alarm requirement for the IP-20.

  1. Step 1

    Locate R-112

    Read the requirement and establish the revision in scope.

    Product or customer data

    The requirements system is authoritative for R-112 and its change history.

  2. Step 2

    Follow verification evidence

    Retrieve the protocols and results associated with that revision.

    Product or customer data

    Test owners establish applicability, result status, and approval. The content system cannot infer a successful test from a nearby document.

  3. Step 3

    Find user communication

    Follow the requirement to the warning, procedures, and labels that communicate it.

    Ontology and knowledge graph

    Maintain typed relationships between stable IDs. Expose missing and unresolved relationships as gaps rather than returning a reassuring summary.

  4. Step 4

    Check content currency

    Confirm the relevant user-content revisions and approvals.

    Content team

    Preserve approval state, effective date, and product applicability at topic or fragment level. A newer draft must not replace approved evidence.

  5. Step 5

    Assemble and review

    The quality system gathers the records into a package.

    System

    Retain source identifiers and revision references when exporting the package.

    People

    A quality reviewer checks completeness and unresolved exceptions before it is presented.

This framework provides a practical baseline shaped by experience. Every organization operates under distinct technical and operational realities that require tailored design and governance. While you can adapt these measures independently, we frequently partner with teams to customize governance, integrations, and rollout. Performance outcomes will naturally vary.

Why these content layers matter

Intelligent content

Give each warning and procedure a stable identity, revision, approval state, and effective date. Approval belongs to a specific revision.

Taxonomy

Use consistent product, release, and content-type classifications to keep the audit package within its agreed baseline.

Ontology and knowledge graph

Define relationships such as “verified by” and “communicated by.” Connect the requirement, test records, and user-content IDs so the package can follow and explain the chain.

Verify the result and handle exceptions

Sample the exported package against the requirements, test, and content systems. Check both relationship direction and revision applicability. Include a deliberately missing warning link to confirm that the package exposes the gap.

If a relationship or approval is absent, route the gap to its owner. Do not let a model invent evidence, infer approval, or treat a complete package as proof of compliance.

How we work
with your team

We can guide your team, work alongside it, or deliver the work for you. Combine these approaches as your needs and capacity change.

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Build capability

We guide your people through the work, building capability that stays with your team.

Support

Add specialist backup

Your team owns the work. We provide experienced backup and specialist help where you need it.

Do

Delegate delivery

We handle work that is one-time, specialized, or outside your core business, without adding an ongoing burden to your team.

Can your team trace one requirement all the way to the reader?

Intuitive Stack can help model user-content relationships, identify missing approval context, and define a pilot package with your quality and engineering owners.