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Where we govern/Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365, proven — no mail or files read.

Retention, data loss prevention, sharing, and Copilot scope — governed continuously, with no message, file, or mailbox content ever collected.

Where mid-market governance is won or lost.

Identity, mail, files, retention, DLP, and now Copilot all live in Microsoft 365. Configuration proven in January says nothing about June, and the audit always asks about June. We keep the proof current — reading config state, never content.

  • Retention and DLP policies proven in operation.
  • Sharing and admin-role hygiene reviewed on schedule.
  • Copilot deployment matched to approved scope.

We read config state, never content.

Bylaw does not read your mail, files, or chats. It dispatches worker packets — small, read-only instructions — that ask Microsoft 365 one question at a time (“is this retention policy still enforced on these mailboxes?”) and return a structured verdict: operator, expected value, observed value, and a hash. The packet reads the setting, not the inbox. No message, document, or calendar item ever leaves your tenant.

The reasoning lives on the other side of the wall — our sealed engine, reached with a key you hold, computing verdicts over configuration state alone. The edge wall strips any personal identifier before anything crosses to us, to a partner, or into the audit trail, and every observation is hash-chained and sign-off-gated before it counts. Configuration proven in January says nothing about June; worker packets run on a cadence so the record is current the day the audit asks about.

One pass answers SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA where PHI lives in Microsoft 365, GDPR retention duties, and the EU AI Act scope check on Copilot at once — Microsoft 365 compliance evidence, Purview DLP proof, Exchange retention governance, and Copilot data-boundary oversight, kept continuously without reading content.