Introducing Narratives: process understanding in minutes

Understanding your business shouldn’t take 10 hours of paperwork.

Today we’re introducing Bead Narratives: a shared map of how your business works, ready in minutes. Our AI agents turn scattered recordings, documents and context into process narratives and flowcharts in your team’s style, with the handoffs, exceptions and controls captured for review.

Better risk decisions start with process understanding

To help a business move quickly, risk teams need a clear picture of where things could go wrong. That means understanding who does what, which systems enforce the rules, and what happens when the usual process cannot be followed.

Those details determine whether a control addresses the risk and what a meaningful test should examine. An approval threshold, a manual handoff or an exception can change the answer.

But the information is spread across conversations, documents and systems. Turning it into reliable documentation can take longer than the walkthrough meeting itself. A single process narrative can mean hours of replaying recordings, reconciling details and drawing the flowchart.

The people doing this work bring the judgment that makes the documentation useful. We built Narratives to give them a complete first draft sooner, so that judgment can go into assessing the process and its risks.

A shared map, ready for review

Bead brings recordings, documents and other unstructured context together into a source-linked process narrative and flowchart. Existing controls and control tests in Bead can provide additional context.

Our AI agents use their understanding of audit standards to connect what people describe with what appears on screen and in the supporting material. The result captures how the process works, including responsibilities, decision points and exceptions.

You get the narrative and flowchart together, in your team’s style, in minutes. Details link back to their sources so reviewers can check the basis for the documentation. If something needs adjusting, a clarification to the agent updates both outputs.

Knowledge that carries into testing

The result becomes a shared reference for the people reviewing the process and the agents testing its controls.

Bead’s testing agents can use this process knowledge as context for their work. The responsibilities, system behavior and exceptions captured in the narrative help inform testing, so the effort invested in understanding the business carries forward.

Less time reconstructing the process. More time to navigate the risk.

Book a demo to see Narratives with your team’s processes.