Assessment Lifecycle

States

State	Description	Exit condition
Created	Assessment named, framework selected, documents connected	User clicks “Run”
Running	Pipeline processing — ingestion, indexing, criterion matching, scoring	Pipeline completes or fails
Completed	All criteria scored, findings surfaced	—
In Review	Reviewers working through findings	All findings signed off
Signed Off	All findings have human decisions recorded	Report generated
Reported	PDF/DOCX exported with full provenance	Archived or re-run
Archived	Assessment retained for audit trail, read-only	—

You can leave during pipeline processing and return later — nothing is lost
A full assessment run takes approximately 30 minutes
Incremental re-assessment on document changes only re-scores affected criteria
The sign-off gate enforces that every evidence requirement has a human decision before a finding can be signed off