Verified and unresolved are not the same
A claim the records support and a claim nobody could settle are reported differently, so a reader never has to guess which one they are looking at.
§ 01Traceability
Every finding can be reconstructed.
Traceability is AnKre's central principle. A finding is not a sentence in a report — it is a chain a reviewer, a committee or an auditor can walk back, link by link.
§ 02The chain
01
Claim
The assertion under examination — a role held, a shareholding, a qualification, a corporate relationship.
02
Evidence
The structured record that speaks to the claim, held as evidence rather than as an undifferentiated attachment.
03
Source
Where the evidence came from: registry, regulatory filing, public record or a document provided by the client. Every node and edge in the knowledge graph carries its source, not just the finished finding.
04
Retrieval date
When the material was obtained, so a reader knows how current the picture is and what may have moved since.
05
Confidence
How strongly the evidence supports the claim, stated rather than implied by the tone of the write-up.
06
Reviewer action
What a human did with it — accepted, questioned, rejected — recorded as part of the finding, alongside the agent that produced it in the first place.
§ 03A finding in practice
Each row carries its own source and date, so a committee can retrace the same path the analyst took.
Report excerpt — findings table
Illustrative example
§ 04Making uncertainty explicit
What the evidence does not show is part of the finding.
Missing evidence is named
Where a record that would settle a question was not available, the gap is identified rather than passed over in silence.
The limits of the investigation are recorded
Scope, sources consulted and boundaries of the work are part of the output, so conclusions are read against what was actually examined.
This helps analysts understand both what the available information supports and where further review is needed — and it gives the people relying on the work a stronger basis for accountable decisions.
See a finding walked back to its source
The clearest way to judge traceability is to follow one conclusion all the way down. We will do that with you.