Process Adherence Checker
PAC tests every case in a process against the rules it is supposed to follow — continuously, on data you already load into Celonis — and shows you each violation instead of a sample of them.
Documented is not the same as followed.
Most organisations can show you the process they designed: a model, a policy, a control framework. What they cannot show you is how often the work actually followed it. That answer lives in transaction data, spread across systems, in volumes far too large to read.
So the gap gets bridged by sampling. A control owner pulls a few dozen cases, checks them by hand and reports a percentage. It is the best that can be done manually, but it only ever describes the sample — and it tends to concentrate on the cases with the highest value, which are not always the ones going wrong.
Meanwhile the rules themselves stay in prose. “Two people must approve above this amount” is clear to a human and invisible to a system, so nothing checks it until an auditor does.
Business rules, translated into checks that never sleep.
PAC starts by making the rules explicit and data-driven: each one is restated so it can be tested against an event log, then reviewed with the people who own it. Ambiguity surfaces here rather than in an audit finding.
The checks are then loaded into PAC, which tests the whole population against them and keeps testing as new data arrives. Because it works on conditions rather than only on the order of steps, it catches what conformance checking on its own misses — an approval by the wrong role, an amount over a threshold, a field changed after sign-off, a four-eyes rule satisfied by one pair of eyes.
The results land where your teams already work: in your Celonis dashboards, broken down by team, site and region, with alerts when new violations appear. There is no second platform to license, learn or keep alive.
- Product
- PAC — Process Adherence Checker
- Built for
- Internal control, audit, quality and process owners
- Runs on
- The data already in your Celonis EMS
- Starts with
- A fixed-scope proof of value
Where it fits
- Rules that can be restated in data terms
- Many controls to test, with a handful worth proving first
- Celonis in place, or a proof of value to justify it
- An owner who can act when adherence slips
What PAC does — and what you get back.
What it does
- Tests every case in the population against your rules, continuously.
- Checks conditions, not only sequence: amounts, fields, roles, thresholds, segregation of duties.
- Breaks adherence down per team, site and region, so you know where to act.
- Raises alerts on new violations, while they can still be corrected.
- Runs on the data already in your Celonis EMS — no new integration pipeline.
What you get
- Full transparency on every instance of non-compliance for the rules you implement.
- A stronger control framework: writing the checks exposes rules that were never testable.
- Much less manual checking, so control and audit teams spend their time on what actually went wrong.
- Smarter sampling where sampling is still required, informed by the tests PAC has already run.
- Evidence for audit and certification that the process is followed, not only documented.
Three steps to a number you can trust.
Fixed scope, your own data, and a business case at the end of it.
Select process & rules
A joint intake session: we pick the process to monitor, check that every rule is clear and testable against data, and agree what is in and out of scope.
Build the checks
The checks are built in short iterations and validated with your team each round, then sharpened as the first adherence findings come in.
Report out
We present the findings and the business case that follows from them to management, together with what implementation would take.
Wondering what PAC would find in your process?
Tell us which process you would point it at first. We will tell you what it takes to prove it.
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