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Data Asset Command Registry & Passporting

Most enterprises cannot produce a single, defensible inventory of their data assets. KRYOS builds one - engineered to survive auditor, red-team, and counterparty scrutiny.

A forensic registry that names, classifies, and evidence-tags every data asset in the enterprise - then issues a transferable passport that travels with the asset across products, deals, and audits.

THE PROBLEM

Catalogs, data dictionaries, and lineage tools rarely answer the questions executives actually ask: what assets do we own, what evidence supports them, who has rights to them, and what are they worth? Coverage is partial, ownership is ambiguous, and shadow stores never enter the picture.

WHAT KRYOS DOES

KRYOS performs a full-estate forensic discovery, classifies every candidate asset against EARM recognition criteria, and tags each record with provenance, lineage, rights posture, sensitivity, and business utility. Each recognized asset is issued a KRYOS Data Asset Passport - a portable evidence file that accompanies the asset wherever it goes.

Scope

Data and assets reviewed

Warehouses and lakes (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift)
Operational systems (ERP, CRM, billing, ticketing, EHR, MES)
AI pipelines, RAG corpora, vector stores, eval sets
Streaming and telemetry (Kafka, Kinesis, IoT)
Document stores, knowledge bases, contracts
Shadow stores (analyst desktops, SaaS exports, notebooks)
Capabilities

What the engagement delivers

Full-estate discovery

Crawl warehouses, lakes, operational systems, AI pipelines, and shadow stores to surface every candidate asset.

Evidence-tagged classification

Every asset is tagged with provenance, lineage, sensitivity, jurisdictional posture, and utility evidence under KRYOS Evidence Discipline.

Transferable passporting

A KRYOS Passport accompanies each asset across business units, products, partners, and M&A counterparties.

Continuous synchronization

Registry stays in sync with source systems through change-data and integration hooks, not point-in-time snapshots.

Stewardship operating model

Named owners, stewards, and reviewers per asset, with audit-trailed sign-off.

Fail-closed gating

Assets without sufficient evidence are explicitly withheld or excluded - never silently passed through.

Deliverables

Artifacts produced

KRYOS Asset Registry instance
Evidence-tagged metadata schema
Data Asset Passport templates per class
Full lineage graph and ownership map
Shadow-store discovery report
Registry operating model and stewardship roles
Coverage and gap report against EARM
Outcomes

Decisions you can defend

OUTCOME 01

A defensible, board-grade catalog of every recognized data asset in the enterprise.

OUTCOME 02

Transferable passports that travel with assets through products, partnerships, and diligence.

OUTCOME 03

A single source of truth the CFO, GC, CISO, and CDO can all rely on.

Why it matters

The capital, audit, and AI consequences.

Without a registry, every downstream decision - capital allocation, AI investment, monetization, M&A - is made against an unknown denominator. The registry is the substrate every other KRYOS service stands on.

FAQ

Questions clients ask before engaging.

How is this different from a data catalog like Collibra, Alation, or Atlan?+

Catalogs document datasets for analysts; the KRYOS Registry recognizes assets for the balance sheet, the deal, and the audit. Each entry carries evidence, rights posture, and a P10·P50·P90 valuation band rather than metadata alone.

Do you replace our existing catalog?+

No. We integrate with existing catalogs as a source. The KRYOS Registry sits above them and adds the recognition, rights, and valuation layers they were never designed to hold.

How long does an initial registry take to stand up?+

A focused registry covering material asset classes is typically delivered in six to twelve weeks. Continuous synchronization and full-estate coverage extend from there.

What is a Data Asset Passport?+

A portable evidence file containing the asset's identity, owner, lineage, rights posture, evidence tags, and valuation band. It accompanies the asset into products, partnerships, audits, and transactions.

Who inside the client should own the registry?+

Joint ownership across the CDO and CFO is typical, with stewardship distributed to domain owners. KRYOS designs the operating model as part of the engagement.

Engagement

Begin with a forensic data asset assessment.

A focused engagement that maps your data estate, scores assets against KRYOS frameworks, and produces a board-ready brief on what to recognize, value, productize, and capitalize.