Content Lifecycle Alignment

Retrieval systems and content lifecycles are usually managed separately, which produces predictable failures: drafts retrievable before approval, superseded versions retrievable after replacement, and destroyed records retrievable after disposition. Each is a governance breach that the retrieval system cannot detect, because it has no view of state. Alignment means index membership is a function of lifecycle rather than of a scheduled sweep.

Indexing in Centralpoint is tied to record lifecycle, so publication admits a record to the retrieval surface and disposition removes it, without depending on a job that may or may not have run. That is also what makes staleness reportable — index state can be compared against record state because both live in the same environment.