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Relief from the bookkeeping of change management

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It’s an idle Tuesday afternoon. You’re in hour three of change management calls to get a CostCenter tag update approved for a production change. Only finops reporting is affected. The change itself will take two minutes of Terraform execution. Last week, you had a DROP TABLE action that destroyed 10TB of obsolete tracking data. It was the same hour of doc writing and three hours of change management review calls for both changes. Most change management systems focus on generating coordination between teams, providing before-after evidence, and establishing a rollback path. These feed into the commonly articulated requirements like collision avoidance, regulatory compliance, scheduling, and auditability/traceability. These requirements cannot be hand-waved away. But perhaps the evidence to meet those requirements could be had for cheap(er)? Let’s see if we can do better. Ideally, we get there incrementally by automating verification of one piece of evidence at a time, then incorporating