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Evidence Reconstruction

Rebuild what happened. Prove it. Defend it.

When incidents are reviewed months later, most organizations face the same problem:

The original decision context is gone.

Logs exist. Reports exist. Controls exist.
But the causal story — what happened, in what order, and why — is fragmented across systems.

Veritas Evidence Reconstruction exists to solve that gap.

What Evidence Reconstruction Is

Evidence Reconstruction is a structured process that rebuilds past events into a normalized, time-ordered, evidence-anchored record suitable for audit, regulatory, and legal scrutiny.

It answers one core question:

Can you prove what actually happened, with evidence regulators will accept?

What Gets Reconstructed

Reconstruction works across fragmented sources, including:

  • Transaction logs and alerts

  • AML / KYC case systems

  • Model outputs and overrides

  • Audit control testing and findings

  • Governance actions and approvals

  • Supporting documents and extracts

Each event is normalized, timestamped, and linked back to its original source.

No reinterpretation.
No narrative smoothing.
Just evidence, ordered correctly.

What You Receive

Every reconstruction produces a regulator-ready evidence pack:

  • Executive Summary
    A concise, board-safe overview of scope, signals, and key findings.

  • Full Reconstruction Appendix
    A complete, indexed timeline of reconstructed events with source references.

  • Machine-Readable Index
    A structured dataset suitable for internal review, analytics, or escalation.

  • Evidence Manifest
    File hashes, counts, and integrity markers supporting reproducibility.

This pack is designed to be defensible, portable, and reviewable by third parties.

When Reconstruction Is Used

Evidence Reconstruction is typically engaged when:

  • Regulators request historical explanations

  • Audit findings are challenged or escalated

  • AML / SAR decisions require defense

  • Model outcomes are questioned after drift

  • Internal investigations need objective grounding

  • Litigation or insurance disputes arise

It is most often used after the fact — when clarity matters most.

How It Fits Into Veritas

Reconstruction is the entry point.

Veritas extends reconstruction into continuous decision defensibility, ensuring future decisions remain explainable under hindsight scrutiny.

Continuum supports both by identifying when systems begin to drift before failures surface.

Organizations typically adopt in this order:

  1. Evidence Reconstruction

  2. Veritas (ongoing defensibility)

  3. Continuum (early drift awareness)

What Reconstruction Is Not

  • It does not replace your systems

  • It does not alter historical data

  • It does not generate opinions or conclusions

It reconstructs what can be proven — and shows clearly where proof is missing.

That clarity is often the most valuable outcome.

Who It’s For

Evidence Reconstruction is used by:

  • Audit & Audit Committees

  • AML / Financial Crime teams

  • Model Risk Management

  • Compliance & Regulatory Affairs

  • External auditors, consultants, and counsel

Anywhere decisions must survive scrutiny across time.

Start With Reconstruction

If your organization has ever struggled to explain how a decision was made months later, reconstruction is the right place to start.

It creates a defensible foundation — before narratives form, and before pressure distorts memory.

Veritas Reconstruction turns history into evidence.

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