7 Compliance AI Agents, Live in Production.
7 live agents automate compliance within finance. 3 run on a schedule and 4 run on demand. Each one publishes the inputs it needs, the steps it works through and what it hands back.
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Audit Preparation
Work through the auditor's request list before they arrive — what exists, what does not, and which items will turn into a finding rather than a question.
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Contract Financial Compliance
Check what we are actually being charged and paid against what the contract says — the uplifts nobody authorised, the discounts never applied, and the obligations quietly missed.
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Financial Control Risk Assessment
Rank financial control risks by what could go wrong undetected — driven by whether the control actually operates, not by how the risk register scores it.
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Regulatory Obligations Tracker
Track every filing and regulatory obligation against its deadline — what is late, what is at risk, and which ones have no owner at all.
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Regulatory Report Assembly
Assemble a regulatory return from the ledger and check every figure ties back — because a return that does not reconcile to the accounts is the one the regulator asks about.
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Spend Policy Compliance
Check transactions against the spend policy — the breaches, the approvals that were split to stay under a threshold, and the patterns a single-transaction check would never see.
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Tax Position Review
Check the tax positions taken in a period against the policy — which are settled, which rest on a judgement nobody has written down, and which would not survive an enquiry.
Testing whether controls actually operate, not whether they are documented
Financial compliance is usually well documented and unevenly operated. The risk register scores risks by how bad they would be, not by whether the control that mitigates them runs reliably, so attention flows to the large and visible rather than to the quiet failure that nobody would detect. Obligations accumulate the same way: a filing calendar exists, but ownership drifts as people move, and the items with no owner are exactly the ones that slip. Spend policy is checked transaction by transaction, which catches the single large breach and misses the pattern — approvals split into three payments to stay under a threshold look compliant one row at a time. And tax positions rest on judgements that were sound when taken but were never written down, so nobody can reconstruct the reasoning under enquiry.
These agents test operation rather than documentation. Financial Control Risk Assessment ranks control risks by what could go wrong undetected, driven by whether the control actually operates rather than by the register’s score. Regulatory Obligations Tracker holds every filing against its deadline and surfaces the ones with no owner at all. Spend Policy Compliance examines transactions for breaches and for the patterns a single-transaction check cannot see, including approvals split to stay under a threshold. Contract Financial Compliance compares actual charges and receipts against contractual entitlement. Tax Position Review identifies which positions are settled, which rest on an unwritten judgement, and which would not survive an enquiry. Before an audit, Audit Preparation works the request list and separates what will become a finding from what will only be a question, and Regulatory Report Assembly builds the return from the ledger and checks that every figure ties back — because a return that does not reconcile to the accounts is the one that gets asked about.
What this moves
- Audit findings at year end
- The auditor's request list is worked through before they arrive, so gaps surface as remediable items rather than as findings written into a management letter.
- Filings missed or late
- Every regulatory obligation is tracked against its deadline with its owner named, which is where obligations without an owner currently disappear.
- Unauthorised contract charges
- What is actually charged and paid is compared against what the contract permits, catching uplifts nobody approved and discounts never applied.
Finance
How AI agents handle compliance
Drawn from the 7 agents above — what they require, how they run, and what comes back.
What they need
- Review settings
- Auditor request list
- Audit settings
- The contract
- What has actually been charged or paid
- Risk and control register
- Assessment settings
- Obligations register
What comes back
- Ready for fieldwork
- Preparation plan
- Will become a finding
- Item by item
- Charged as contracted
- Review note
- Money on the table
- Contract term against what happened
How they run
- Run on demand
- 4
- Runs on a schedule
- 3
- Steps per run
- 3–4
- Credits per run
- 7–8
- Use a knowledge base
- 1
Where compliance fits in finance
Matching, reconciling and chasing is high-volume work with very little judgement in it. Moving that to agents is what turns a compressed close into a normal week.
Next Step
Deploying compliance agents
These run as-is against the inputs listed above. Most deployments adapt one — a different source system, a different tolerance, a different approval path. The first call establishes which.