Every framework you answer to asks the same question in different words: who was authorized to approve, sign, and commit on our behalf, and can you prove the control operated all year? Aptly turns your delegation of authority into continuous, audit-ready evidence, so the answer is always one export away rather than a quarterly reconstruction.
Most enterprises can produce a delegation of authority policy. Far fewer can prove, on demand, that the policy was actually enforced by every system, for every approver, on every day of the reporting period. That gap is where audits stall and findings originate.
The matrix says one thing; the systems do another. Authority is approved by the board and documented in a spreadsheet, but enforced by SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, and a dozen apps that drift apart after every reorg, leaver, and new entity. The control exists on paper and fails in practice.
Evidence is reconstructed, not captured. When the auditor asks who could approve a $2M commitment in Q2, and who actually did, the answer is assembled by hand from emails, screenshots, and memory, weeks after the fact.
Every jurisdiction asks again, differently. SOX, the UK Corporate Governance Code, the EU AI Act, APRA, MAS, and NIS2 each frame the same authorization control in their own language, on their own timeline. Answering them one framework at a time multiplies the work.
According to the ACFE 2024 Report to the Nations (1,921 cases analyzed), 51% of occupational losses involved internal controls that were absent or overridden. That is the exact failure mode an enforced, evidenced authority layer is built to close.
Aptly sits between your identity systems (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, SailPoint) and your execution systems (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Workday, ServiceNow) as the single source of truth for who can approve, sign, and commit on behalf of the enterprise. Identity governs who can log in; your ERP routes transactions; Aptly governs decision authority, and records it.
Because every delegation, acceptance, re-delegation, limit, and condition lives in Aptly as a structured, versioned record, the evidence auditors ask for is a by-product of running the business, not a project you launch each quarter. Map it once to the frameworks you answer to, and the same authority layer satisfies all of them.
Authorization limits, segregation of duties, and signatory governance are core controls under each of these regimes. Aptly maps your authority evidence to the frameworks you answer to:
When Meridian Industries' auditors opened the annual ICFR review across SOX, APRA CPS 230, and UK Corporate Governance Code Provision 29, CFO Sarah Chen didn't convene a war room.
One export, mapped to all three frameworks. Legal lead Elena Voss pulled the matching signatory evidence for the period from the same source. No reconstruction. No surprises.
Bring a framework you answer to. We'll show you the evidence Aptly produces for it, using your authority data.
