Why do we do it this way?
The record answers.
Auditors, new leaders and regulators ask the same question: why is this done this way, and who decided? Kept keeps the reasoning with the rule, cites the conversation it came from, and refuses to edit a transcript once it is recorded.
All use casesA familiar moment
“Who approved
this exception?”
The setting. A procurement and finance team during the annual audit. An auditor is checking how suppliers get paid. One supplier is paid on special terms. The person who agreed those terms moved to another team a year ago.
The audit asks why a supplier is paid on different terms. The decision was right. The reason was in someone's head, and that someone moved teams a year ago.
Illustrative scenario, not a customer result.How Kept helps
Keep the reason.
Show the source.
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Keep the reason with the rule
A Kept interview captures the exceptions and the trade-offs, not just the steps.
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Answer with the source
Every answer links to the words it came from, or says it does not know. Nothing is asserted without a source.
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Show the ledger
Transcripts cannot be edited once recorded. Owners and admins export the audit ledger over a date range as JSON or CSV.
What Kept uncovers.
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The reasoning behind exceptions that look wrong from outside
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Who decided, and when, in their own words
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Where a documented control and the practised one differ
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The questions the record cannot answer yet, marked as unknown rather than guessed
In your line of work.
Where this shows up first: the film for the legal & compliance leader who feels it, and the other lines of work where it starts.
Also in: Finance Procurement IT & Security
Read the film transcript
Narration from this original film. Soft instrumental music plays underneath.
The policy is approved. The reasoning behind the exception you granted last year is in an email thread.
When the reasoning behind reviews and exceptions can’t be traced, consistency suffers, and so does your position when asked.
Kept is a voice interview. June calls, asks about your work, and keeps what you say, in your words, in your knowledge base.
A new counsel gets the same redline and asks Kept. They get the threshold and the condition, cited to your review call.
Review reasoning is traceable, so decisions stay consistent. Kept. Keep the knowledge behind the work.
Start at zero.
Pay once when the KPIs land.
The KPIs we would propose for traced back and cited:
- Control and exception questions answered with a source, against honest unknowns
- Decisions in scope with a kept rationale cited to the person who made it
- Audit ledger exports produced for the review, on demand
Agreed before the pilot starts and measured from the workspace's own ledger over a window we set together, with a minimum number of partners using Kept through it. Nothing to pay to begin. A one-time payout when the KPIs are met, then the recurring rate.
How the proof of value worksUseful knowledge.
Visible limits.
Kept supports the work. It does not assess competence, monitor people or replace training, supervision or required qualifications. Business knowledge follows workspace access and ownership rules.
Kept is designed to ground answers about your work in available sources and say when it does not know. AI can still make mistakes. Inspect the sources and review important answers before relying on them.
Security and compliance