Field-level rules
Required fields, formats, allowed values, ranges, sign conventions and referential checks.
Platform
Catch the problem before the report goes out.
Validation is where reporting risk is actually managed. Datox runs your checks automatically on every cycle, raises anything that fails or looks unusual as an exception, and gives the reviewer the evidence needed to resolve it.
Control types
The checks Datox can run
Cross-field validations
Consistency between related fields, totals against components, dates against periods, categories against instrument types.
Reconciliations
Compare figures against control totals, accounting extracts, prior periods or a second independent source.
Framework checks
Structural and content validations specific to the reporting framework or output schema being produced.
Thresholds & tolerances
Materiality thresholds and tolerated variances, so small differences do not drown out real issues.
Anomaly detection
Period-over-period movement and pattern checks that flag values which are technically valid but unusual.
Confidence
Extraction confidence is part of the control set
When data is read from a document rather than a structured feed, the reliability of that read matters. Datox records a confidence indicator alongside extracted values and treats low confidence as a reviewable condition.
How confidence is used
- Low-confidence values are routed to review instead of being assumed correct.
- The reviewer sees the source document region the value came from.
- Thresholds for what counts as low confidence are configurable per workflow.
- Agents are designed to flag uncertainty rather than guess a plausible value.
Exception handling
How an exception is resolved
Raised
A rule fails, a reconciliation breaks or a value falls outside tolerance. The item enters the exception queue with its rule and context.
Investigated
An investigation agent can compare against the source, prior periods and related records, and summarise what appears to differ.
Decided
A reviewer resolves the item: correct the source data, adjust the mapping, accept with a documented reason, or reject the run.
Recorded
The decision, the reason and the reviewer are stored with the reporting period as part of the audit trail.
The specific rule set for each workflow is defined with you during deployment. Datox provides the control framework; the thresholds and policies remain yours.