Reference · Glossary
Postmortem
A **blameless write-up** after an incident — timeline, root cause, and follow-up actions.
When to use
Any customer-impacting AI outage or data leak.
When not
As punishment — goal is learning and prevention.
Example
“14:02 deploy v3 → 14:18 citation rate drop → 14:25 rollback → action: add golden eval gate.”