Before / After

What Changes When You Add GuardSpine

A walkthrough of one Monday morning -- with and without evidence compression.

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Monday Morning Without GuardSpine

1,247 Slack messages about AI changes over the weekend

83 PRs merged by Copilot-assisted developers

0 Evidence trails linking decisions to outcomes

??? Which changes touched PII, compliance, or customer data

The CISO opens Slack, sees a wall of noise, and starts triaging manually. By Wednesday, three issues have already shipped to production unreviewed.

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Every Change Gets Sealed

83 PRs Each generates a hash-chained evidence bundle

SHA-256 Content hashes for every item in every bundle

Offline Any bundle verifiable without network or license

0 trust Auditors verify without trusting GuardSpine

The guardspine-kernel seals each change as it happens. Adapters ingest from GitHub, Jira, Slack, and SharePoint. Every event becomes a tamper-evident record.

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1000 Events Become 10 Decisions

L0-L1 Auto-approved: style fixes, docs, tests (67 PRs)

L2 Flagged for async review: API changes (12 PRs)

L3 Escalated to council: PII-touching changes (3 PRs)

L4 Requires human sign-off: compliance-critical (1 PR)

Drift windows group related changes. Risk tiers route them automatically. The compression engine respects your attention budget -- leaders see 10 decisions, not 1,247 messages.

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Monday Morning With GuardSpine

10 Decisions in the CISO's queue (down from 1,247 messages)

4 Items needing human review (L3-L4)

100% Evidence coverage -- every change has a verifiable trail

0 Unreviewed changes shipped to production

The CISO reviews 4 items in 20 minutes. The other 79 PRs were auto-approved at L0-L1 with full evidence trails. Board packet generates automatically from the evidence bundles.

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Board-Ready in One Click

94% Controls passing across 24 governance departments

3 Open findings with assigned owners and deadlines

Real-time Dashboard updated from evidence bundles, not manual entry

Verifiable Every number traces back to a sealed evidence bundle

The board packet is not a slide deck someone assembled. It is a compressed view of the evidence bundles. Every number is traceable. Every claim is verifiable.

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What You Actually Deploy

Adapters GitHub, Jira, Slack, SharePoint, custom connectors

Kernel sealBundle() + verifyBundle() -- Apache 2.0, zero deps

Compression Drift windows + bead packing + risk-tier routing

Your UI n8n, Slack, Teams, custom dashboard -- your choice

GuardSpine is not a dashboard you log into. It is a substrate your tools sit on. The evidence layer is Apache 2.0. The compression engine is the premium product. n8n is one optional UI layer.

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