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The Change Graph

See how one technical change travels through the business.

The Change Graph is the product’s shared context: entities and typed relationships with source evidence, confidence, review status, and history.

Release 2.31 change7 impact paths12 obligations

A worked example

Autonomous refund processing is not just an agent feature.

The graph makes the propagation path explicit, reviewable, and actionable.

Graph propagationOne change becomes three kinds of impact and owned work.
01Changed object
Agent v2.3Autonomous refund action
traverse + apply rules
02Direct technical reach
Refund APIwrite transaction
Orders dataread + update
Agent identitynew permission
traverse + apply rules
03Business impact
Refund processbehavior changes
Store manager1,240 people
Financial controlapproval over $500
traverse + apply rules
04Readiness work
Rollback testtechnical
Manager trainingpeople
Support procedureoperational
Every path retainssourcerelationshipconfidencereview statushistory
ChangeRefund actionadds write access
modifies
AgentResolution agentversion 2.3
invokes
APIRefund servicewrites transactions
supports
ProcessRefund approvalstore operations
performed by
RoleStore manager1,240 people
requires
ControlHuman approvalrefunds over $500

Anatomy of a relationship

A graph edge is a governed claim—not a decorative line.

Each relationship carries enough context to decide whether it should influence analysis and readiness.

RELATIONSHIPrel_01J9...
Subject
Store Manager
Relationship
PERFORMS
Object
Refund Approval
Source
Store Operations SOP v12
Confidence
0.94
Review status
Confirmed

Hybrid impact analysis

Four inputs. One reviewable result.

Authority, coverage, consistency, and explainability come from combining methods rather than trusting a single inference engine.

01

System relationships

Known owners, dependencies, APIs, applications, groups, and release records.

02

Document context

Candidate processes, roles, controls, and failure paths extracted with source references.

03

Customer rules

Explicit conditions such as write access, sensitive data, affected population, and criticality.

04

Human review

Subject-matter experts confirm, edit, reject, or flag proposals for investigation.

Start with one real release

Make readiness visible before production makes gaps expensive.

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