Operational Truth™ Platform

Know What's Real.
Prove What's Required.

Opsfolio is an Operational Truth™ Platform for Security, Safety, and Compliance using Compliance as Code. Know, with evidence, whether your organization's posture matches what it claims, requires, and promises.

What is Operational Truth™?

Operational Truth™ in Opsfolio means knowing, with evidence, whether an organization's security, safety, and compliance posture matches what it claims, requires, and promises.

Intent as Code

Opsfolio treats compliance, safety controls, and security requirements as code-defined intent, not static documents. Your requirements are declarative, reviewable, versioned, and machine-readable—similar to a requirements document in software engineering.

Evidence from Reality

Operational Truth™ emerges when code-defined intent is continuously compared against real-world operational evidence. This is not about documentation alone—it's about provable alignment between compliance intent and operational reality.

Expected Controls vs. Observed Evidence

The distinction between what should exist and what actually exists is central to Opsfolio's model of Operational Truth™.

Expected Controls

Intent as Code

Expected Controls represent what should exist from a security, safety, or compliance perspective. They answer the question: "What controls, safeguards, and behaviors are required to exist?"

Derived from:

  • Regulations and standards (ISO, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, safety standards, internal policies)
  • Risk assessments and control frameworks
  • Compliance-as-Code definitions
  • Approved procedures, playbooks, and guardrails
  • Organizational commitments and audit requirements

Observed Evidence

Operational Reality

Observed Evidence represents what is actually happening in the environment. It answers the question: "What controls and behaviors actually exist right now?"

Includes:

  • System state, configurations, and runtime signals
  • Logs, scans, telemetry, and inspection results
  • Test executions, safety checks, and control validations
  • Human workflows and process execution evidence

Operational Truth™ Through Continuous Comparison

Operational Truth™ in Opsfolio is the continuous comparison of Expected Controls and Observed Evidence. This comparison is the foundation of Opsfolio's value.

Missing Evidence

If an Expected Control has no matching Observed Evidence, Opsfolio treats this as a failure of operational truth™.

Expected ≠ Observed = Truth Gap

Unmanaged Evidence

If Observed Evidence exists without a corresponding Expected Control, Opsfolio treats this as unmanaged risk.

Observed without Expected = Unmanaged Risk

When Expected Controls Are Missing in Reality

If a required control or safeguard is expected but cannot be validated through evidence, Opsfolio surfaces this as one of the following:

Security Risk

Missing or degraded controls increase exposure to threats

Safety Risk

Procedures or safeguards are not actually being followed

Compliance Failure

Audit claims cannot be substantiated

Operational Breakdown

Processes exist on paper but not in practice

From an Operational Truth™ perspective, unverified controls are equivalent to nonexistent controls.

When Evidence Exists Without Defined Intent

If Opsfolio detects evidence of behavior, systems, or processes that are not defined in compliance intent, this indicates:

Shadow processes or undocumented workflows

Control drift and policy erosion

Bypassed approvals or governance gaps

Potential security or safety violations

In Opsfolio, anything not defined as code-defined intent is treated as risk until explicitly acknowledged.

Compliance as Code: The Source of Truth

Opsfolio encodes compliance, safety, and security requirements as executable, testable artifacts. Compliance as Code is the mechanism that makes Operational Truth™ possible.

Define Expected Controls

Encode requirements as versioned, machine-readable artifacts

Drive Validation

Automated and manual validation against real evidence

Produce Evidence

Traceable, auditable evidence tied to controls

Support Audits

Ready for certifications and regulatory reporting

Operational Truth™ is not a static snapshot—it is continuously computed as code-defined intent meets real-world evidence.

Why Operational Truth™ Matters

Opsfolio's version of Operational Truth™ enables organizations to:

Prove compliance instead of asserting it

Detect security and safety gaps early

Eliminate documentation drift

Replace checkbox audits with living evidence

Align engineering, operations, security, and compliance around a single source of truth

Operational Truth™ in Opsfolio means:
"What we require, what we operate, and what we can prove are always aligned."

Ready to Achieve Operational Truth™?

Stop asserting compliance. Start proving it with evidence-based operational truth™.