Solution · Compliance monitoring & testing
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A failed test becomes a finding, not a spreadsheet row.
Sample by risk, record results in a sample-by-step matrix, capture exceptions with root cause, and let a governed sign-off promote a failed test straight into a finding.
The shape of the problem · 01
What this actually feels like.
- 01Every quarter, the testing workpaper is rebuilt from last quarter’s spreadsheet.
- 02The sample is whatever was easiest to pull, not where the exposure is.
- 03An exception gets noted in a cell comment and never becomes a tracked issue.
- 04Proving a prohibited practice is absent means pulling records by hand and hoping the query was right.
How Zovos handles it · 02
Five steps, one graph.
Every step writes back to the same controls, policies, and issues your team already owns. There is no second source of truth.
- 01ProgramStart from 20 monitoring checklists and 15 work programs. Each program keeps its own workpaper and history.
- 02SampleDraw the sample by risk, so effort lands where the exposure is. The sampling is recorded on the workpaper.
- 03TestRecord results in a sample-by-step matrix. Exceptions capture their root cause where they occur.
- 04Sign offAt governed sign-off, a failed test promotes into a finding that carries the citation, the owner, and the evidence.
- 05Prove absenceAbsence testing runs negative assurance against the 13 prohibitions in the corpus, 9 of them swept automatically today. Questionnaires collect structured, reviewable answers.
What changes · 03
What the product does instead.
Starting content
20 checklists and 15 work programs ship as starting points.
Sampling
The sample is drawn by risk and recorded on the workpaper.
Handoff
A failed test becomes a finding with its citation attached.
Negative assurance
Absence testing covers 13 prohibitions, 9 of them swept automatically today.
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