Data leadership used to answer for reports. Now the audit committee asks for evidence under SOX 302 and BCBS 239, CSRD and ISSB put sustainability figures under the same scrutiny, and the board wants to know whether the company's AI can be trusted.

Each question lands on the same weak point, in three forms:

• The number. The board deck and the financial system disagree, and finding out why takes a week of senior people's time.
• The answer. An AI assistant gives a confident figure that matches no report, and the miss lands on data governance.
• The evidence. Every audit cycle rebuilds the history of a definition from email, tickets, and memory.

What changes with MetaKarta

One approved definition, everywhere it's used. Your organization's definition of revenue applies in every report and every analytics tool, so the board deck and the operating dashboards compute the same figure.

AI that answers from the same definitions. Approved AI assistants read the definitions your reports use, and every answer carries the evidence behind it. A wrong answer becomes something you can trace and correct.

The audit answer is a query. What a metric meant on any date, who changed it, and why is on record and ready on request.

One platform at a predictable price. MetaKarta brings the tools behind your reporting, governance, and AI together on one platform.

What you can say to the board

The sentence to take into the boardroom: "Every number we publish and every answer our AI gives runs on an approved definition, and we can show its history on request."

• “Can we stand behind this number?” Every reported metric runs the approved definition, and we can trace it to its source on request.
• “What did this metric mean at quarter-end?” Here’s the definition as of that date, who approved it, and every change since.
• “Can we trust our AI?” Our AI assistants answer from the same approved definitions as our reports, and every answer carries its evidence.
• “Are we ready for the auditors?” The evidence for SOX 302, BCBS 239, CSRD, and ISSB is kept continuously and ready on request.

Test it against your own estate

Three questions make a useful evaluation of any vendor, including us:

1. The board-number test. Take one figure from your last board deck. Ask the vendor to show where it came from and which definition produced it.
2. The quarter-end test. Ask what one key metric meant at last quarter-end and who has changed it since.
3. The AI test. Ask an AI assistant a question your finance team already answers, and compare its figure with the report.

Built on nearly 30 years of metadata engineering

MetaKarta's technology runs inside the products of Microsoft Purview, Informatica from Salesforce, IBM, Oracle, and Qlik Talend. MetaKarta brings it to your data organization directly, and your definitions stay in the tools you already own.

When the report, the AI answer, and the audit record share one approved definition, the measures that move are audit preparation time and how long it takes to answer the board's next "where did this come from?"

Get in touch to learn more about how MetaKarta makes every board-reported metric traceable to its approved definition.