Most audit-readiness conversations start with dashboards. I prefer to start with the evidence path. A data audit workbench is not a set of charts; it is a repeatable pipeline that turns control events into verifiable records a regulator can inspect without trusting the UI. Define the audit event first A workbench answers three questions: what happened, who initiated it, and how do we know the answer wasn’t altered. Start from data lifecycle actions: access, export, transformat...