Defensible Deletion

Deletion without evidence of process looks like spoliation. The defensible version requires a documented schedule, consistent application, suspension under legal hold, and a record that the destruction occurred and why — which makes it harder than deletion and considerably safer. AI complicates it, because the derived artefacts of a destroyed record may persist: embeddings, cached answers, conversation history, evaluation sets.

Because indexing in Centralpoint is record-level and the derivatives live in the organization's own environment, the artefacts derived from a record are enumerable rather than dispersed across vendor systems. Retention treatment applies to interaction logs and dialogue history on the same terms as to content, so a disposition action covers the AI estate rather than stopping at the document.