Document Metadata Management

Metadata entered by hand is metadata that decays. Users skip optional fields, guess at mandatory ones, and the resulting properties are inconsistent enough that nothing can safely depend on them. Every control built on metadata inherits that unreliability — routing sends documents down default paths, retention clocks never start, and search returns by relevance because the filters cannot be trusted.

Centralpoint infers metadata during ingestion rather than requesting it at upload, which is the practice that predates its AI layer by two decades. Derived properties drive retention triggering, routing conditions, entitlement and full-text indexing — and the vector index consumes the same enrichment. One derivation, many consumers, none of them dependent on a user filling in a form.