How does governed AI reduce audit preparation cost?

Audit preparation cost is a function of how the estate was governed beforehand. Where classification, version history and decision records exist as a matter of course, preparation is extraction; where they do not, it is archaeology conducted under time pressure.

AI activity in Centralpoint is retained as records in the organization's own environment — interaction logs, dialogue history, versioned prompts and skills with named owners. The evidence that governance operated comes from the same surface that governs production, so an examiner's question resolves to a query rather than to a project.