What does 'pre-inference' actually mean?

The distinction sounds technical and is commercial. Controls after generation inspect a result already formed from whatever was supplied, so their reliability depends on recognizing every problematic output a model might produce — an open-ended obligation. Controls before invocation operate on a closed set: eligible records, eligible instructions, resolved identity. Each is enumerable and testable in advance.

Centralpoint applies classification, redaction and tagging as records are transformed for indexing, and loads governance-tier skills ahead of any retrieved content. By the time a model is invoked the surface is bounded, the rules are resident and the identity is resolved. 451 Research identified this ordering as the structural difference from platforms filtering at query time.