A public body has to be able to show how an automated step was decided, to anyone who asks.
What you can do
- Bring AI assistants and automation into services without opening a gap in accountability.
- Keep a person in the loop exactly where the rules say one is needed.
- Hand an auditor or an ombudsman the record itself, readable on their own machine.
What you are saved from
- Being unable to show who or what made an automated decision.
- Lock-in to one supplier's logs for your own evidence.
- Re-tendering because the evidence requirement was missed the first time.
What it costs
Free to download and use, with nothing to sign up for. Paid work, such as a readiness review or a pilot in your own environment, is scoped to your case and priced as a fixed amount agreed before it starts. No subscription, no per-seat fee. Vaara is dual-licensed: free under the AGPL-3.0, or under a commercial licence when you build it into a product you ship closed, run a modified version as a service without publishing your changes, or your policy does not allow copyleft. Write to hello@vaara.io.
What it saves you
- Staff time spent answering information requests about automated steps.
- An audit trail you would otherwise commission as a separate project.
- Supplier changes that no longer reset your evidence.
Every action ends in one of three states, and leaves a receipt
Allowed
Inside the rules: it goes through.
Needs a person
Unusual or risky: it waits until a person says yes or no.
Refused
Against the rules: it never happens.
Receipt
Every one of the three leaves a signed record of what was decided and why.