Two Companies
Most companies are joined by exports, reconciliations and email. Fabric joins them by what each record rests on.
The problem. Every department keeps its own systems of record and hears about another department's change only when the next export or reconciliation runs, or never, if the hand-off is an email. Records resting on the change stay in use, agents keep acting on them, and an auditor asking what was known at a quarter end gets today's answer.
What this demo shows. Across three generated years of a drug manufacturer and a software company, Fabric found all 246 records a change reached in other departments the same day. Without it, none were found the same day, the median wait was 29 days, 62 records reached were never found in the year, and 133 quarter-end audit answers replayed a year later were wrong; with Fabric, none.
How it works:
- One layer, every department. Each record cites what it rests on across departments, so a change needs no hand-off to arrive.
- A verdict, not a flag. A record backed by independent evidence stays supported; one quoting a revised value is refuted; the rest need review.
- As of any date. A quarter end's answer is read from what was known on that day, a year later as on the day.
The honest part. Both companies are fictional and generated from our department catalog. The hand-off cadences are assumptions; real companies catch some changes by hand. No real system is connected.
Fabric is the layer that tells every department, the day a fact changes, what rests on it.
The same company, the same year, the same changes, run twice. Without Fabric, each department keeps its own systems of record and hears about another department's change only through a hand-off: a monthly export, a quarterly reconciliation, or an email nobody reconciles. With Fabric, every record in every department is a claim that cites what it rests on, in one layer, so a change reaches everything resting on it the day it is recorded, with a verdict: still supported, needs review, or refuted.
Two fictional companies composed from a catalog of corporate departments, generated with planted changes and an answer key. The hand-off cadences are assumptions, not measurements.
1. The company, drawn both ways
Without Fabric
Departments joined by hand-offs.
With Fabric
Every department's records in one layer, each citing what it rests on.
2. One year, change by change
3. The scores
What this does not show
- Both companies are fictional and generated; the departments, their workflows and their reliances come from our department catalog, written from general knowledge.
- The hand-off cadences (monthly, quarterly, never) are assumptions. Real companies also catch some changes by hand outside their hand-offs, and some reconcile more often; the company without Fabric here only follows its hand-offs.
- "Found" means a record is flagged for review; without Fabric every flag is "review", since nothing tells a record still supported by independent evidence from one that is refuted.
- No real system of record is connected; this shows the shape of the two data operations, not a deployment.