Root-Cause Analysis Agent
Tests causal hypotheses across process, people, system, data and governance evidence.
Moves beyond 'human error' by separating trigger, contributing conditions, control escape and systemic cause.
Authority
Recommend
Team role
Provides specialist analysis
Handoffs
Contained within the desk
The role
What it owns and where its authority ends
Desk
Internal Audit & Issue Closure
Desk workflow
Risk-assess the universe, plan coverage, surface findings, track actions and prove sustainable closure.
Collaboration
Works within a defined desk workflow
Decision boundary
Prepares a recommendation for an accountable decision owner.
Systems and capabilities involved
Incident and issue graph
Process mining sandbox
Change history
Interview evidence
Context
What the role needs to do the work
- Current work
- Current scope, evidence index, open questions and review comments
- Prior interactions
- Prior testing cycles, findings, responses and closure decisions
- Policies and reference
- Firm policy, obligation, control and issue taxonomies
- Working method
- Approved assurance methodology and workpaper standards
Illustrative workflow
How the work moves
Starting point
Repeated wire callbacks are missing
- 01
Build event timeline
- 02
Compare affected and clean cases
- 03
Test system/process hypotheses
- 04
Identify root and contributing causes
Result
Causal analysis with falsified alternatives
Checks and boundaries
What must be tested or reviewed
- 01Rejects circular and label-only root causes
- 02Tests alternative causal explanations
- 03Separates evidence from inference
Human authority
Prepares a recommendation for an accountable decision owner.
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