Accounting Constitution · Capture Methods

Centinel learns from records, patterns and people.

It extracts documented knowledge, infers recurring practices, observes work and asks targeted questions only when context is missing. Your team’s deliberate effort is confirming what matters.

How knowledge gets in

Five ways in. One of them asks anything of you.

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Pattern inference

Statistical detection of regularities in your journals, ledger and bank activity: recurring postings, supplier-to-account patterns, timing cycles.

Your effortNone
02

Document understanding

Reading invoices, purchase orders and delivery notes at line-item level—the nature of a transaction, not just its pattern. Client-authored files rank highest: your mapping sheets and policies are read as ground truth.

Your effortShare files
03

Conversational capture

Calls, email threads and shared Slack channels carry the tacit knowledge no system holds: reasoning, exceptions, who decides what. Capture starts at the first demo.

Your effortTalk as usual
04

Targeted confirmation

The one deliberate ask. Centinel ranks every open question by materiality and confidence, and brings your team only the ones worth a human minute—in Slack or in the product.

Your effortMinutes, ranked
05

Continuous observation

After onboarding, Centinel watches the ledger: corrections, rule violations, new suppliers and patterns. What it observes becomes proposals—the freshness engine that keeps the Constitution alive.

Your effortNone
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A head start before day one

Public signals and patterns learned from companies like yours—same industry, size, geography, ERP—pre-populate the workspace before the first call. Priors, never policy: everything is corroborated against your real data.

Your effortNone
Where the minutes go

Your team confirms where the money is.

Every inferred rule carries two scores: how much money it governs, and how sure Centinel is. Only high-materiality, low-confidence knowledge generates a question. Everything else is confirmed by evidence—or simply doesn’t matter enough to interrupt anyone.

Nothing governs until it is confirmed. Centinel keeps what it has observed strictly separate from what your team has validated.

Observed → Needs review → Confirmed
What earns a question
Materiality →
High materiality · high confidence Confirmed by evidence; surfaced for visibility, not effort.
High materiality · low confidence The only quadrant that asks for your time. Ranked, batched, minutes.
Low materiality · high confidence Applied quietly; visible in the audit trail.
Low materiality · low confidence Watched until it becomes material—or never does.
Confidence →
In the product

Evidence and policy, side by side.

Each dossier shows what Centinel has observed across your history, what has been confirmed as policy, and exactly what needs attention—with the euros at stake attached to every open question.

Supplier dossier: needs attention queue, confirmed treatment mix and observed patterns based on 418 invoices
Related

Accounting Constitution

The hub: what the Constitution is and powers.

Data Inputs

What evidence enters Centinel.

Knowledge Types

The structured knowledge that is created.

Capture starts at the first conversation.

And it runs on data you already have. See what Centinel reads.

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