Agentis Solution
Audit-Ready Margin Controls With a Per-Order Evidence Ledger
Every margin decision Agentis makes is written to the Evidence Ledger with its inputs, rule, and outcome, giving your auditors a per-order trail for margin controls. Agentis supports your audit; it is not itself SOC 2 certified.
The Problem
Ecommerce CFOs at companies pursuing SOC 2, preparing for an IPO, or going through late-stage fundraising diligence face a documentation gap on financial controls. Existing margin processes rely on after-the-fact reconciliation and tribal knowledge: 'we look at the margin variance report monthly and investigate exceptions.' That process does not generate a per-transaction audit trail, and it cannot show that a given order was checked against an approved rule. Building that evidence by hand is slow, custom documentation work.
How Agentis Solves It
Agentis checks every order within 60 seconds of it being placed and writes each decision to the Evidence Ledger: the order, the inputs (COGS, discounts, freight, payment fees, FX), the rule applied, a confidence tier, and the outcome, whether cleared, flagged, or held before fulfillment. That gives finance a documented, per-order record that margin rules were applied consistently, which is the kind of evidence controls testing asks for. Rule changes are recorded, so you can show which rule was in effect on any date. Your audit firm still scopes the work, tests the controls, and issues the report; Agentis supplies evidence for your audit and does not hold a SOC 2 certification of its own.
Key Benefits
- Per-order evidence that each order was checked against your margin rules
- A record of which rule and inputs produced every flag or hold
- Margin controls documented as a system rather than tribal knowledge
- A traceable margin-control record to support fundraising or acquisition diligence
Platform Features
- —Evidence Ledger entry per order: inputs, rule applied, confidence tier, and outcome
- —Flag and hold-before-fulfillment decisions recorded with timestamps
- —History of rule changes, so auditors can see which rule applied when
- —Exportable records for your auditors
Built for
Ecommerce CFOs and finance leads at companies pursuing SOC 2 Type II, preparing for IPO, or undergoing late-stage diligence
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this replace a SOC 2 audit firm?
No. You still engage a CPA firm to perform the SOC 2 audit, and Agentis does not hold a SOC 2 certification of its own. What Agentis contributes is evidence for the margin-related controls in your audit. Every order it checks gets an Evidence Ledger entry with the inputs (COGS, discounts, freight, payment fees, FX), the rule applied, a confidence tier, and the outcome. Rule changes are recorded, so the ledger can show which rule was in effect when a given order was checked. That replaces the custom reconciliation work finance would otherwise do to show that margin was governed consistently. The practical division: Agentis produces the per-order trail; your audit firm decides what to sample, tests it, and attests to the result. Bring your auditor's control matrix to onboarding so the export can be shaped to what they will actually request.
Which controls can the Evidence Ledger support?
Most directly, controls that say orders are processed against approved policies and exceptions are identified and reviewed, which falls under processing integrity in SOC 2 terms and under internal control over financial reporting for SOX-style programs. The ledger shows, for each order, which margin rule applied, what inputs it used, and whether the order was cleared, flagged, or held before fulfillment. Recorded rule changes support change-management evidence, because they show which rule version was active on a given date. How these map to your specific control objectives is a decision for your auditor, not for Agentis; the ledger is the evidence, not the mapping. Share a sample export with your audit team early, so they can confirm it answers the questions their test scripts ask.
Can auditors get the evidence without involving engineering?
Yes, that is the point of having the record in one place. Evidence Ledger records can be exported for a time window, a set of orders, or a specific rule, without anyone writing a database query. Each record carries the order, the inputs, the rule applied, the confidence tier, and the outcome, so an auditor can trace a single order from placement to decision. Rule history exports alongside, which lets the auditor pair a decision with the rule that produced it. Because the ledger is written when the decision is made, the evidence reflects what the system did at the time rather than a reconstruction afterward. Agree on the export format with your auditors at the start of fieldwork, so your engineering team stays out of the evidence-gathering loop.
Key Concepts
Commerce Operations
SOX Compliance for Ecommerce
Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements as they apply to ecommerce revenue recognition, cost tracking, and financial controls -- increasingly relevant for mid-market brands approaching IPO or acquisition.
Profit Governance
Margin Governance
The institutional discipline of defining, enforcing, and auditing margin rules across every transaction, the financial-controls counterpart to revenue operations.
Profit Governance
Policy Engine
The configurable rules layer of a profit firewall, where finance teams declaratively define margin floors, discount limits, MAP rules, and other enforcement criteria.
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