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Compliance answers in 4 seconds — with a citation, not a guess.

A retrieval-augmented agent trained on your industry's regulations, policies, and internal compliance playbook — so your team gets defensible answers in seconds, not days. For regulated industries (healthcare, legal, finance, insurance, construction), 'what does the regulation say' questions stall projects daily. A trained RAG agent answers them instantly with the actual regulation text cited — defensible, auditable, and…

The problem, precisely

Compliance is a structural bottleneck in every regulated industry. A nurse asks 'can we share this discharge summary with the patient's primary care doc without a fresh consent?' and the answer is in a 400-page HIPAA reference somewhere. A loan officer asks 'is this fee disclosable under TRID for this loan type?' and the answer is in TRID rule text plus three CFPB clarifications. A roofing contractor asks 'is this membrane code-compliant for a coastal Florida install?' and the answer is in the Florida Building Code plus a county amendment plus the manufacturer's ICC report. In every case the answer exists, is knowable, and is in writing — but finding it takes 20 minutes to 4 hours, depending on who has the question and who they can ask.

How we build it

The system is built as a two-tier RAG architecture optimized for high-stakes retrieval. Tier 1 — indexing: we ingest your industry's authoritative sources (regulation text, manufacturer documentation, internal policy docs, prior-decision logs) into a Pinecone vector index with hybrid sparse-dense retrieval (Cohere embed-v3 dense + BM25 sparse, fused with reciprocal-rank fusion). Documents are chunked with overlap-preserving boundaries, with structural metadata (section, subsection, jurisdiction, effective date) preserved per chunk. Tier 2 — query-time: the user query goes through Cohere rerank-v3 over the top-50 candidate chunks to surface the 5 most relevant, which are passed to Claude 3.5 Sonnet with a strict 'answer only from the provided context; if the answer is not in context, say so' system prompt.

What you get

Mortgage broker case: median TRID-question response time dropped from 47 minutes to 8 seconds. Files-cleared-per-LO/day rose 19%.

A worked example

A mid-size mortgage brokerage with 14 loan officers saw median TRID-question resolution drop from 47 minutes to 8 seconds. Loan officers cleared 19% more files per day. Compliance staff time freed up from 6 hours/day of FAQ work to 4 hours/day of actual review work. ROI breakeven hit in week 5.

Cost and timeline

Starts at $8,500 build. Ongoing: $1,299/mo + per-query pass-through (~$0.02 per query). Ships in 21 days to live · corpus ingestion continues past launch. Delivered as Compliance Knowledge Base Agent, available across United States.

How do you prevent hallucinations on legal/medical advice?

Three guardrails. First, the system prompt explicitly forbids answering from model parametric knowledge — only from the retrieved context. Second, we use Cohere rerank to surface high-confidence chunks only; if no chunk passes the relevance threshold the agent returns 'I don't have an authoritative source for that — please consult [escalation path]'. Third, every answer cites its source so the human can verify. The result is meaningfully lower hallucination rate than general-purpose ChatGPT — we've measured <0.4% in production deployments.

What if the regulations change?

We monitor the Federal Register, CFR updates, and your state-level regulatory sources (we set this up during build based on your jurisdictions). Changes are re-indexed within 24 hours of publication. We also push a quarterly summary of all changes that affected your corpus so your team knows what's new.

Can it answer questions outside its trained corpus?

By design, no. We constrain it strictly to your corpus — answering outside scope is where hallucination risk lives. For genuinely out-of-scope questions, it returns 'this is outside my knowledge base; here's who to ask'.