The approval still existed.
The accountability chain did not.
A risk decision had been approved. The system changed. Nobody could prove that the prior approval still applied to what the system was now doing.
A credit decision was issued.
But the decision did not begin in the credit committee.
It began several AI transformations earlier: a customer interaction was captured, a CRM AI classified it, an AI summary was generated, a portfolio risk indicator was updated, and the lending decision was made using that changed context.
The approval still existed.
But the system had changed.
Nobody could prove that the approval which covered the original risk decision still applied to what the system was now doing.
That is the accountability-continuity gap.
EVE does not decide whether the loan decision was right or wrong.
EVE records the moment where the chain of ownership, authority and evidence can no longer be proven.
Verifying EVE-ISO42001-00004652…
This is one chain, sealed and verifiable. The same deterministic resolver can scan many governance chains at once — Scale proof: scan 1,000 synthetic governance chains →
EVE surfaces the signal. A named human owner decides. The seal proves the record is unchanged since sealing — a cryptographic integrity check, not third-party attestation. EVE does not say compliant, non-compliant, incident or material.
Same evidence pattern across domains: AGV — DENIED · Energy — HELD · ISO 42001 — GAP