02 / Controlled technical data

Controlled data stays on hardware you control.

TatteredNote is self-hosted end to end. There's no vendor cloud in the data path, no SaaS backend syncing your incident narratives anywhere — the platform runs entirely on infrastructure you own and control. Controlled data never touches ours.

NOTE

This describes an architecture posture, not a compliance certification. TatteredNote is designed around self-hosted deployment, record-level classification, and audit logging because those are the right defaults for ITAR/CMMC-adjacent environments — but neither we nor this page can certify your deployment as compliant. That determination is yours to make with qualified export-control counsel, applied to your specific data and configuration. TatteredNote is not designed or authorized for classified information.

Architecture

What's actually built in

DEPLOYMENT

Fully self-hosted

Runs on your own infrastructure. No cloud dependency, no vendor-hosted backend in the data path.

CLASSIFICATION

Record-level flagging

Incidents, products, machines, and components can be flagged as controlled technical data. A record about a controlled product or machine is treated as controlled too, and attachments follow the record they belong to. Flagging individual fields within a record is on the roadmap.

ACCESS

Role-based, plus controlled-data access

Roles decide what someone can do. Separately, an administrator grants each person access to controlled data; for everyone else, controlled records are filtered out server-side — from search, lists, and offline sync. Who qualifies, including U.S.-person status, is your determination; printing a controlled setup packet requires a recorded U.S.-person attestation.

AUDIT

Full audit logging

Every view and edit of a record is logged — who, what, when. Nothing is a black box after the fact.

INTEGRITY

Write-once fix history

Fix attempts, verifications, outcomes, and votes are write-once: the application refuses to change them after they're recorded. Edits to incident and solution write-ups land in the audit log.

OFFLINE

Devices only hold what the user may see

A phone or tablet's offline copy is built through the same access filter as everything else, so it holds only records the signed-in person is allowed to see, and it's wiped when they sign out. Holding offline entries for classification review before anyone else sees them is in development.

Multi-site

Hub-and-spoke for multi-facility operations Planned

Multi-site is on the roadmap, not built. The plan: each facility runs its own local instance, with controlled replication to a hub rather than a single shared database every facility writes into directly. The hub is yours — customer-operated, on your hardware — and replication only ever runs between instances you own.

PER-FACILITY · PLANNED

Each facility keeps its own instance

A facility's data lives on that facility's hardware first. Replication will be deliberate, not a default open pipe between locations.

GOVERNANCE · PLANNED

Tag and record governance across facilities

Shared tag vocabulary and solution ranking will propagate across your hub without forcing every facility onto identical local configuration.

Evaluating this seriously

What we'd want from a real evaluation

TatteredNote is pre-launch. If your team is evaluating it for a controlled-data environment, we'd rather walk through the actual architecture and your specific data-handling requirements directly than have you infer answers from a marketing page.

Evaluating for your environment

Tell us about your environment and what you'd need to see before this could run in it.

Please don't include export-controlled technical data or CUI in the contact form or by email to sales@tatterednote.com. We'll set up the right channel once we talk.

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