# Compliance Guard

*A regulated compliance workpaper — questions, answers, evidence with integrity status, and governed sign-off.*

**Compliance Guard** is Tredy's **compliance workpaper**: the governed surface where you
review a set of compliance questions, inspect their supporting evidence, and take it
through sign-off and export.

## When to use it

You need to demonstrate compliance against a framework — working through obligations,
attaching evidence, and producing a signed, exportable record.

## What the workpaper shows

- **Questions** — each with a prompt, an answer, a status, reviewer notes, and attached **evidence**.
- **Evidence integrity** — every evidence item is `verified`, `pending`, or `failed`. Integrity is *never implied* when the source reports pending or failed.
- **Statuses** — `approvalStatus`, `evidenceIntegrity`, `signatureStatus` (unsigned / pending / signed), and `exportStatus`.

## How you use it

1. **Find gaps** — surface incomplete or failed questions first.
2. **Inspect evidence** — open each item; evidence links open through a **governed action** (sensitive URLs aren't exposed directly).
3. **Sign off** — request review, apply a signature, and export — all governed steps.

> **Note:** Compliance Guard is produced by an authoring **playbook** (a gap-analysis playbook such as coverage, policy, security-control, regulatory, contract, or vendor). See [Authoring a service](https://docs.tredy.ai/guides/authoring-a-service/).