Audit technical asset lifecycle integrity

Audit technical-asset lifecycle and value lineage across placed-in-service, assessment and retirement events; detect orphan active assets, stale recoverability evidence, active value links after retirement, remaining book value on retired assets and duplicated value-source attribution without treating engineering activity as accounting evidence.

What it's for

Reveals technical assets that remain on the books without current value lineage, assessments or coherent retirement evidence before they become stranded capital or board surprises.

What you give it

Inputs split into evidence read from your connected systems, calibration your team owns, and numerical controls that affect precision but never the result's meaning.

Field Type Role Required
as_of_period integer ≥ 0 Your calibration Yes
asset_value_allocations array of objects (6 fields) Evidence Yes
lifecycle_events array of objects (5 fields) ≥ 1 item Evidence Yes
max_detail_rows integer ≥ 1, ≤ 500 Numerical control Optional
maximum_assessment_age_periods integer ≥ 0, ≤ 10000 Your calibration Optional
maximum_retired_carrying_value number ≥ 0 Your calibration Optional
maximum_source_allocation_fraction number ≥ 0, ≤ 1 Your calibration Optional
technical_assets array of objects (7 fields) ≥ 1 item Evidence Yes
value_sources array of objects (3 fields) ≥ 1 item Evidence Yes

Each technical_assets record

Field Type Required
carrying_value number (≥ 0) Yes
evidence_verified boolean Yes
expected_remaining_life_periods integer (≥ 0, ≤ 10000) Yes
id string (non-empty) Yes
placed_in_service_period integer (≥ 0) Yes
retirement_period any Yes
status one of "active", "retired" Yes
Example input
{
  "as_of_period": 12,
  "asset_value_allocations": [
    {
      "active": true,
      "asset_id": "api-asset",
      "attribution_fraction": 1,
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "id": "api-margin",
      "value_source_id": "product-margin"
    }
  ],
  "lifecycle_events": [
    {
      "asset_id": "api-asset",
      "event_period": 0,
      "event_type": "placed_in_service",
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "id": "api-placed"
    },
    {
      "asset_id": "api-asset",
      "event_period": 10,
      "event_type": "recoverability_assessment",
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "id": "api-assessed"
    }
  ],
  "technical_assets": [
    {
      "carrying_value": 100,
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "expected_remaining_life_periods": 12,
      "id": "api-asset",
      "placed_in_service_period": 0,
      "retirement_period": null,
      "status": "active"
    }
  ],
  "value_sources": [
    {
      "annual_contribution": 300,
      "evidence_verified": true,
      "id": "product-margin"

Truncated for display — the full payload is 47 lines.

What you get back

This is the actual output of running the example above — computed by the same function the platform calls, not an illustration.

Example output
{
  "asset_diagnostics": [
    {
      "active_value_source_count": 1,
      "allocated_annual_contribution": 300,
      "assessment_age_periods": 2,
      "asset_id": "api-asset",
      "carrying_value": 100,
      "expected_remaining_life_periods": 12,
      "failed_gates": [],
      "latest_recoverability_assessment_period": 10,
      "status": "active"
    }
  ],
  "assumptions": [
    "The asset register, finance carrying value, placed-in-service and retirement facts share one point-in-time perimeter; value-source allocations are management lineage rather than causal proof and one source cannot be credited above the governed cap.",
    "Recoverability assessments are authoritative owner events, not inferred from commit volume, repository age, ticket counts or code-generation output. Active value links and lifecycle status are complete for the declared asset boundary.",
    "This is a cross-system management integrity audit, not GAAP/IFRS impairment testing, tax or audit evidence. A failed gate requires controller, product and architecture reconciliation and never establishes misconduct or individual performance."
  ],
  "configuration": {
    "as_of_period": 12,
    "maximum_assessment_age_periods": 12,
    "maximum_retired_carrying_value": 0,
    "maximum_source_allocation_fraction": 1
  },
  "decision": "technical_asset_lifecycle_integrity_supported",
  "method": "technical_asset_lifecycle_value_lineage_integrity_audit_v1",
  "overallocated_value_sources": [],
  "summary": {
    "active_asset_count": 1,
    "allocation_count": 1,
    "asset_count": 1,
    "asset_count_with_failed_gate": 0,
    "carrying_value_with_integrity_issue": 0,
    "duplicate_annual_contribution_attribution": 0,
    "evidence_coverage": 1,
    "failed_gates": [],
    "lifecycle_event_count": 2,
    "overallocated_value_source_count": 0,
    "retired_asset_count": 0,
    "value_source_count": 1
  },
  "truncated_asset_count": 0
}

How it works

Statistical audit & measurement — Check whether a number is fit to decide on: coverage, timing, reconciliation, and the gaps a dashboard hides.

  1. 1 Freeze the point-in-time technical asset register, finance carrying values, unique value sources, active allocation links and authoritative lifecycle events.
  2. 2 Reconcile exactly one placed-in-service event, retirement status/date/event, remaining life, active value lineage and assessment freshness for every asset.
  3. 3 Cap each unique value source's active attribution, expose duplicated contribution and carrying value attached to failed lifecycle gates, and require complete evidence before downstream modeling.

Before you trust it

Every tool in the catalog ships with the conditions under which its answer is meaningful — and the conditions under which it should abstain instead of guessing.

Assumptions & guardrails

  • Metric definitions, weights, aggregate grain, sampling, missingness, dependence, and comparison windows correspond to the management claim being audited.
  • Asset and value-source identities are stable, lifecycle events are factual and immutable, finance carrying values share one as-of boundary, and allocation fractions are governed lineage rather than causal claims.
  • Association, instability, or measurement quality is not a causal effect and must not be converted directly into an individual employment decision.
  • This is not GAAP/IFRS impairment, fair-value, tax or external-audit evidence and never attributes an asset issue to a named worker, customer or vendor.

Minimum evidence

  • technical_assets: at least 1 rows/items
  • value_sources: at least 1 rows/items
  • asset_value_allocations: required and organization-defined
  • lifecycle_events: at least 1 rows/items
  • as_of_period: required and organization-defined

How to validate it

Validate on future periods or held-out aggregate units, compare with a simple baseline, and require stability across plausible metric definitions and decision thresholds.

Calibrating it to your org

Same for everyone

The mathematical kernel, validation rules, method version, and JSON output semantics are organization-independent; no tenant-trained coefficients or company benchmark is embedded in the function.

Specific to you

  • tenant-scoped point-in-time asset lifecycle bridge joining service/architecture identity to finance fixed/intangible-asset records and product value sources without inferring book facts from source-code activity
  • asset/value-source boundary and version, finance as-of and carrying-value perimeter, lifecycle event authority, assessment cadence, retired-value and allocation materiality, evidence completeness, pseudonymization, retention and accountable controller/architecture/product/security/operations owners

Calibration workflow

  1. 1 Define the management decision, target outcome, aggregate unit, privacy boundary, cadence, and prediction/intervention horizon for this organization.
  2. 2 Build a tenant-scoped historical cohort using only information available before each prediction or decision; preserve zero periods, censoring, assignment probabilities, and unresolved outcomes when the method requires them.
  3. 3 Estimate statistical parameters on training history, but obtain costs, utilities, risk tolerance, practical-effect thresholds, capacity, and policy constraints from accountable decision owners.
  4. 4 Validate on later time windows or held-out aggregate units at the deployment grain, against a simple baseline and the function-specific validation strategy.
  5. 5 Deploy only if the returned decision clears evidence, overlap, calibration, robustness, and guardrail checks; warning, unsupported, schema-gap, and fallback decisions are abstentions.
  6. 6 Monitor realized outcomes, data drift, coverage, and decision regret; recalibrate at a governed cadence or after a detected regime/definition change, never merely because a stakeholder dislikes the result.

Call it from your AI

You don't wire up 388 tools in your MCP client. The GitRevio MCP server exposes 18 tools, three of which let an agent search the catalog, read a tool's schema, and run it — so the assistant finds this one on its own.

gitrevio_capabilities_search
  { "q": "audit technicalasset lifecycle and value lineage" }
  → finds "audit_technical_asset_lifecycle_integrity"

gitrevio_capability_describe
  { "capability_id": "audit_technical_asset_lifecycle_integrity" }
  → returns the input schema and agent guidance shown on this page

gitrevio_capability_run
  { "capability_id": "audit_technical_asset_lifecycle_integrity", "arguments": { ... } }
  → returns the result shown above

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