You do not need a Summit statistic to size this. Put in your own numbers. The decision turns on the cost of reconstructing, disputing, or auditing actions you cannot currently prove.
The numbers below are inputs you set for your own environment, shown to make the shape of the decision explicit. They are not a Summit performance claim or a promise of savings.
| Hours to reconstruct “who authorized this” | A |
| Loaded cost per hour | B |
| Actions in scope / month | C |
| Fraction later disputed / audited | D |
| Monthly reconstruction cost | A×B×C×D |
| Scope | one workflow |
| Duration | 30 days |
| Price | fixed fee |
| You leave with | inspectable record + control map |
The pilot is worth running when your monthly reconstruction, dispute, and audit-prep cost on a single workflow approaches or exceeds the fixed pilot price, before counting the actions that cannot be reconstructed at any price.
Evidence is assembled continuously instead of reconstructed under deadline.
A tamper-evident chain replaces “check the logs” when an action is challenged.
An insurer cannot price risk on a log the insured controls. A verifiable record is the input that makes the risk pricable.