What it does
- Reports what a published rule states
- Shows the passage it drew from, every time
- Answers in plain English, with no query syntax to learn
- Says “not found” when the sources do not cover it
Regulatory Risk & Compliance Agent
Ask our AI agent what the rule actually says.
Type the question the way you would ask a colleague. You get what the published rule says, and a link to the source it came from.
The agent answers only from a published passage it can show you. If it cannot find one, it says so rather than guessing.
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Covers CanadaEuropean UnionUnited KingdomUnited States The practice works beyond these, including Africa and APAC. Answering on a jurisdiction is not the same as serving it.
What an answer looks like
Every answer carries its source.
The agent does not answer from memory. It retrieves the passage first, answers from that passage only, and shows you where it came from so you can check it.
Question
Answer
[Placeholder answer. Real answers are drawn from the retrieved passage only.] Yes. A reporting entity must submit a suspicious transaction report where there are reasonable grounds to suspect, and the obligation extends to attempted transactions as well as completed ones.
That is what the rule says. What it means for your business depends on your model, your customers and your channels, which is a conversation, not a search result.
When it does not know
Not found in the sources I hold. I will not guess at this one.
This is the designed behaviour, not a failure. A thin area returns nothing rather than a plausible sentence, because a confident wrong answer about regulation is worse than no answer.
The boundary
It says what the published rules say. It never assesses your situation.
What it will not do
- Tell you whether your business is compliant
- Give regulated advice, or anything that substitutes for it
- Speak for a regulator, or imply any regulator endorses it
- Fill a gap with a plausible sentence
Note. The agent reports
what published sources say. It does not speak for the bodies that published them.
Coverage
4 jurisdictions at launch.
Canada, European Union, United Kingdom, United States. We would rather hold a jurisdiction properly than list it. Where the source is thin, the agent returns “not found” instead of a thin answer.
The agent answering on a jurisdiction is not the same as the practice taking engagements there. Northward works across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union, Africa and APAC.
English at launch. French follows, because regulation in Canada is bilingual and a French answer has to be drawn from the French source, not translated from the English one.
Fair use
The agent is free, and there is a limit on how much one visitor can ask of it. Reach it and the agent says so plainly and asks you to come back later. Nothing is lost and nothing is charged.
The limit is enforced in code rather than by good behaviour. It exists so the tool stays free and stays up for the next person.
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Where search stops A rule is general. Your obligation is specific. The agent tells you what is written. Working out what it means for
your model, your customers and your channels is the work we do. Talk to us
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