What exactly does Centralpoint cover that we would otherwise assemble ourselves?

Assembled separately these are eight procurement decisions, eight integration surfaces and eight places for governance state to diverge. The seams are where failures occur: a classification one component applies that another does not read, an access rule the retrieval layer cannot see, a log that records requests but not the rules in force.

Centralpoint carries the chain end to end. Data Transfer connects the sources; Data Cleaner applies the organization's governance dictionary; taxonomy and audience assignments attach to records; the Vector Index and lexical search are built from the same governed corpus; the Skills Layer governs behaviour in five fixed tiers; SkillTokenBudget and Token/Fee Regulation bound and account for consumption; and the Interaction Log and Dialogue History retain what each execution assembled. One classification decision propagates through all of it.