Entities

Knowledge Item

A deliberately authored or curated piece of content — a card, an article, a policy — with an accountable owner and a lifecycle. The central registry entity most other entities in this domain point at, the same role Account played in Financial Close.

Volume

Thousands to hundreds of thousands per tenant

Retention

Indefinite while active; retired to an access-controlled archive, not deleted

Entity attributes10
  • knowledge_item_id
  • title
  • body
  • owner_id
  • verifier_id
  • The same enforcement-point architecture must support partitioning finer than tenant level — by engagement, matter, or project — within a single tenant, not only isolation between tenants.
  • retired_at
  • tenant_id
  • Automated content verify/unverify decisions must be marked as machine-made, distinguishable from a human verifier's decision, even though both produce the same 'verified' status field.
  • provenance
Entity lifecycle6
  • — → Draft
  • Draft → Unverified
  • Unverified → Verified
  • Verified → Flagged
  • Flagged → Verified
  • Verified → Retired