The audit passed. That was the frustrating part.
Everything we needed existed somewhere. The access logs were in three consoles. The schema history was in version control, sort of. The list of which pipelines read which column lived in the head of someone who had changed teams. We assembled the answer, we shipped it, and the auditor was satisfied.
Then we did it again eleven weeks later. It became obvious that the work was not the audit. The work was that nobody had built the place where this record was supposed to live, so it was reconstructed from scratch every time someone asked. That place is what Neuryn is.