Find orphan policies before the examiner does
A titled PDF in a shared drive is not a controlled document if nobody owns the next revision date.
Fintech teams often discover orphans during the wrong week: a KYC procedure last touched in 2022, a vendor risk matrix with no owner, an incident playbook that still names a departed manager.
An inventory audit scores currency and ownership before anyone else asks. Orphans get a remediation order—retire, rewrite, or reassign—rather than a panicked late-night edit.
If your library grew through acquisitions or tool migrations, start with Documentation Inventory Audit. The register is dull on purpose; dull is what examiners trust.