---
title: "Audit-ready evidence"
description: "Evidence emitted as a by-product of the build in a form an auditor can read directly (machine-readable, signed, timestamped), so the audit is a query, not a collection project."
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/audit-ready-evidence
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-24
---

# Audit-ready evidence

Evidence emitted as a by-product of the build in a form an auditor can read directly (machine-readable, signed, timestamped), so the audit is a query, not a collection project.

- Developed in: [ch. 01, Three clarifiers](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/definition#three-clarifiers)
- Chapters: [ch. 01, Definition](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/definition) · [ch. 04, The Stack](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/the-stack)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-audit-ready-evidence

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.