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Volume 02, Issue 05

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ANCHORA: AN AI-ASSISTED ENTERPRISE DECISION GOVERNANCE PLATFORM WITH IMMUTABLE AUDIT TRAILS AND POLICY-ENFORCED WORKFLOW ORCHESTRATION

Aayush Kumar Samhitha Gopalan Rohan Sharma

Dr. Jessy Prathap

Department of Computer Science - Emerging Technologies SRM Institute of Science and Technology Vadapalani Campus Chennai

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Enterprise decision-making processes are frequently fragmented across disconnected tools, informal communication channels, and manual record-keeping practices, resulting in poor traceability, inconsistent policy enforcement, and weak account-ability. This paper presents Anchora, an AI-assisted enterprise decision governance platform that integrates decision lifecycle management, evidence-grounded AI reasoning, compliance policy gating, workflow orchestration, and immutable audit logging within a unified, API-driven system. Anchora converts unstruc-tured decision requests into fully traceable, policy-evaluated, workflow-driven records. Each decision captures AI-generated reasoning summaries, risk and confidence scores, structured assumptions, policy snapshots, and references to source evidence documents. A hybrid semantic-keyword retrieval mechanism grounds AI outputs in organizational knowledge. Append-only audit logs with cross-entity trace queries enable comprehensive governance. Role-based access controls restrict decision creation, approval, and administration to authorized actors. The system is implemented using a Next.js frontend, FastAPI backend, PostgreSQL with pgvector for vector storage, and Google Gemini for generative and embedding AI. Evaluation demon-strates compliance enforcement, retrieval quality benchmarking, and operational SLO monitoring. Anchora addresses a critical gap in enterprise governance tooling by offering a reproducible, auditable, and AI-augmented decision intelligence platform.

Index Terms—decision governance, audit trail, AI reasoning, workflow orchestration, compliance enforcement, enterprise soft-ware, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, role-based access control, policy evaluation

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Kumar, A., Gopalan, S. & Sharma, R. (2026). Anchora: An AI-Assisted Enterprise Decision Governance Platform with Immutable Audit Trails and Policy-Enforced Workflow Orchestration. International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, <i>02</i>(05). https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.870

Kumar, Aayush, et al.. "Anchora: An AI-Assisted Enterprise Decision Governance Platform with Immutable Audit Trails and Policy-Enforced Workflow Orchestration." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management, vol. 02, no. 05, 2026, pp. . doi:https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.870.

Kumar, Aayush,Samhitha Gopalan, and Rohan Sharma. "Anchora: An AI-Assisted Enterprise Decision Governance Platform with Immutable Audit Trails and Policy-Enforced Workflow Orchestration." International Journal of Creative and Open Research in Engineering and Management 02, no. 05 (2026). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.55041/ijcope.v2i4.870.

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