Workpapers fail when the next auditor cannot reconstruct your thinking. A seven-section structure that ports beyond audit to engineering postmortems and product specs.
Writing
Notes on audit, controls, and the tools around them.
FedRAMP Moderate is 325 controls and a long list of GRC vendors. You can get to a credible readiness statement on a laptop, with three tools, in a few weeks.
Four questions (and three more) I actually ask when reviewing an AI feature. Derived from NIST AI RMF, but written for engineers and PMs, not auditors.