Legal & ComplianceCross-functional
Ask the regulation. Get a cited answer.
Instant, cited answers across regulations and internal policy — every answer linked to the exact section or clause it came from, with a full audit trail for every query and response. Built for compliance, legal, and risk teams fielding questions from the business every day.
Every answer cited to source. Built on Sphere AI Foundry.
regulatory_search — query #Q-9042LIVE
00:00Query → "Do we need customer consent to share data with vendor X?"read
00:02Scan → Reg P §1016.10, GLBA opt-out disclosurematched
00:04Cross-check → Internal Policy 4.3, third-party data sharingconflict noted
00:07Draft answer → consent required unless exception appliespassed
00:09Log & cite → 2 sources, audit trail writtensealed
answer time 9ssources cited 2/2human sign-off available
Built on Sphere AI Foundry·Full query & answer audit trail·21 years, 300+ clients
Compliance questions outrun the team that has to answer them
Every day the business asks compliance and legal a version of "are we allowed to do this?" — and answering well means finding the right clause in the right regulation, then checking it against whatever the internal policy manual says, then writing it up with a citation a regulator could follow. When that search lives in one or two people's heads, every question waits in a queue, and the answer risks being wrong the moment a rule changes underneath it.
88%
faster first answer vs. a manual search
100%
of answers cited to a source section or clause
1
system of record for every query and response
Question in, cited answer out
Four steps, every one logged and citable back to the source regulation or policy.
01
Ask
Ask it the way you'd ask a colleague
A plain-language compliance question — no need to know which regulation, which section, or which internal policy manual holds the answer. The agent reads the question the way a compliance analyst would.
Example query
"Do we need customer consent before sharing account data with a marketing vendor?"
02
Search across sources
Regulation and internal policy, searched together
The agent searches federal and state regulations, agency guidance, and your own internal policy manuals in the same pass — surfacing not just what the rule says, but where your own policy is stricter, looser, or silent.
Cross-check
Reg P §1016.10 vs. Internal Policy 4.3
03
Cite every claim
No answer without a citation
Each statement in the answer links back to the exact regulation section, agency bulletin paragraph, or internal policy clause it was drawn from — the citation travels with the answer, not as a separate lookup.
Cited answer
Affirmative opt-in consent is required before sharing account data with a third-party marketing vendor.
cited to Internal Policy 4.3, §2(b)04
Log & route
Every query and answer lands in the audit trail
The question, the answer, the sources cited, and the timestamp are logged automatically — ready for an examiner, an internal audit, or a reviewer to confirm before the answer goes back to the business.
Audit log entry
query logged2 sources citedreviewer notified
10 fields, every one cited
What the agent returns with every answer it gives.
Direct answer to the question asked
Regulation section & subsection citation
Internal policy clause citation
Conflict flag between regulation & policy
Jurisdiction & applicability scope
Effective date & last-amended date
Related agency guidance or bulletins
Prior interpretive memo, if one exists
Confidence & ambiguity flag
Full query & answer audit record
Typical inputs
What the agent reads, and what it connects to.
Documents
- Federal and state regulations and statutes relevant to your industry
- Agency guidance, bulletins, and no-action letters
- Internal policy manuals and standard operating procedures
- Prior interpretive memos and legal opinions
- Examination findings and prior audit responses
Systems
- GRC (governance, risk & compliance) platform
- Policy management system
- Document repository or knowledge base
- Ticketing system for compliance inquiries
Is this the right fit?
Built for a steady stream of questions — not a one-off legal opinion.
✓ Works best for
- Compliance and legal teams fielding recurring questions from the business
- Organizations with both external regulation and internal policy to reconcile
- Teams that need a defensible, citable audit trail for every answer
Too small for
- A single novel legal question best sent straight to outside counsel
- Replacing final legal sign-off on a material regulatory position
- Jurisdictions or rule sets not yet loaded into the source library
Grounded in the source text, not a black box
Compliance-first, the same standard every Sphere agent is held to.
The agent will not answer past the source text it has loaded — where a regulation or policy is ambiguous, missing, or conflicting, it flags the ambiguity rather than guessing. Every answer sits between the question and a final compliance or legal sign-off — never past it. A qualified reviewer confirms any answer used in a material decision.
Citations reference the regulation, agency guidance, and internal policy directly — see how the same audit-trail standard applies across regulated deployments in Governed AI for Banks and Private LLM Deployment for Banks and Financial Institutions.
Prerequisites source library loaded
Regulations and internal policy must be loaded and current before the agent will answer against them.
Human review available
A compliance or legal reviewer can confirm any answer before it's relied on for a material decision.
Regulatory grounding source-cited
Every answer cites the regulation section, agency guidance, or internal policy clause it was drawn from.
Foundation Sphere AI Foundry
Access controls and audit trail configured here carry forward to every other agent you deploy.
Frequently asked
Does the Regulatory Document Search Agent replace legal or compliance judgment?
No. It replaces the manual search for where a rule lives across regulations and internal policy. A compliance or legal reviewer still makes the final judgment call on how it applies to a specific situation.
What kinds of regulatory and policy sources can it search?
Federal and state regulations, agency guidance and bulletins, internal policy manuals, procedure documents, and prior interpretive memos. Additional source sets can be added during onboarding.
How does it integrate with our existing policy and document systems?
It reads directly from your policy management system, document repository, or GRC platform — no separate upload step required. Integration scope is confirmed during deployment planning.
Is every answer from the Regulatory Document Search Agent traceable to a source?
Yes. Every answer cites the specific regulation section, policy clause, or page it was drawn from — there is no answer without a citation back to the source document.
How is this different from a generic document AI tool or a keyword search?
It is built around regulatory and policy retrieval specifically, so it understands cross-references between a regulation and your internal policy, not just keyword matches. It runs on Sphere AI Foundry, so the access controls and audit trail configured here carry forward to other agents you deploy.
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See it on your own regulations and policy
Bring three real questions to the demo. We'll show the answer live — citations, cross-references, and the audit log entry, against your own source library.
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