Prove the control is on every path before the application runs.
Define versioned policies over typed application facts, apply them at the boundaries where decisions matter, turn policy outcomes into enforceable obligations, and preserve evidence from decision to effect.
Define the control in the same model as the work
Policy becomes more useful when the application does not have to translate it into separate implementation logic before it can act on it.
See whether every path to an effect crosses the required control
Protected paths
Project where facts are assembled, policy decisions occur, obligations are created, and enforcement points operate.
Effect reachability
Ask whether every consequential path crosses required policy, review, residency, and revalidation controls.
Broken paths
Find fallback or retry routes that can reach an external effect without the control that should govern it.
Give policy decisions facts with known meaning
A policy fact should carry more than a variable name. Type, meaning, scope, freshness, missing-value behavior, and provenance form the Policy Fact Contract behind the visual rule.
Turn policy decisions into enforceable application work
Decision
What does the rule require?
Obligation
What mandatory work must happen?
Enforcement point
Where does the application ensure it happens?
Evidence
How do we prove it was honored before consequence?
Put enforcement where application behavior changes
Test policy before publishing it
Review positive, negative, boundary, missing-fact, conflict, obligation, path-coverage, and regression cases before a new policy governs executions.
Version policy with the application it governs
New executions can use a new policy version while running executions remain interpretable under the version needed for their active state.
Trace policy all the way to the effect
A complete evidence path can connect policy identity, evaluated facts, authority context, decision, obligations, enforcement, approval, Business Operation Identity, and resulting effect.
Turn one governance requirement into executable policy.
Use an architecture review to map the facts, obligations, enforcement points, test cases, versions, and evidence needed for one consequential AI application path.