Record-to-Truth

A run starts whenever records arrive from somewhere: a form, an import, an enrichment feed, a person typing. The processes here decide what a record must contain before it is usable, deduplicate it against what is already held, enrich what is thin, correct what is wrong, and keep the definitions everything else counts against. This is the stream that decides whether an account means the same thing in two reports and whether a number can be trusted twice. It owns the shape of the record and the rules that keep it honest; what anybody does with a record belongs to whoever is doing it.