Regulatory change monitoring.
Regulator sites, dockets and bulletins checked on a schedule. A digest with the source document, retrieval time and a short note on why it matters. Monitoring does not replace official service or your deadline controls.
Solutions · Risk & Compliance
The change is monitored, the gap is cited, the answer is drafted. You approve.
Regulatory changes, vendor reports, policy documents and questionnaires, read against your standards on a schedule. Every finding links to its source. Nothing leaves without a named approver.
Used in production for regulatory monitoring at an AmLaw 100 firm.
- Citations on every finding
- Attribution on every edit
- Approval before anything sends
- Runs in your VPC
- SOC 2 Type II
- SharePoint
- Outlook
- Excel
The problem
Change arrives faster than the policy library
A regulator publishes a bulletin. Someone reads it, decides whether it applies, finds the affected policy, and drafts the update. By the time the loop closes, the next one has arrived.
Meanwhile the same answers get re-typed for every requester: the SOC 2 report, the security questionnaire, the KYC file, the due diligence questionnaire. And when the examiner asks who reviewed what, with which version, you need the log, not a recollection.
The control is only as good as the audit trail.
How it works
Start with one recurring task. A regulator feed. A policy folder. A questionnaire. Bring an example of work you would accept.
Connect the sources. Regulator sites, SharePoint, your GRC tool, email. Each user’s own permissions.
Define the review points. What needs a named approver, and what routes to whom. Written as an Athena Operating Procedure (AOP).
Review, do not redo. Every finding cites its source. Every edit has an author. Time travel to the version a reviewer saw.
Example workflow
Example workflow: weekly regulatory change digest
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Use cases
Policy gap analysis.
Compare a new regulation or standard to your policy library. List the clauses affected, with the policy text and the regulation text side by side, and draft the update for a reviewer.
Vendor risk review.
Read a vendor’s SOC 2 report and security documents against your control framework. List gaps and exceptions with the page, and draft the follow-up questions to the vendor.
Security and due diligence questionnaires.
Answer from your prior responses, policies and certifications. Each answer is drafted with its source. Anything without a supported answer is left blank and flagged. A named person approves before it goes out.
Marketing and communications review.
Check brochures, decks and web copy against your rules and applicable regulation. Flag unsupported or non-compliant claims with the rule and the passage, and suggest compliant wording for a reviewer.
KYC and filings.
Approval-gated workflows with every step cited and every approver recorded.
NDA and contract review against guidelines.
Review each agreement against your criteria and produce an issues report, with a confidence score per finding.
What customers say
“It's good to understand the capability of the platform. That how far, and how quickly you guys can get these things going [...] that has been impressive overall.”
“Lets us get a lot more out of our data than [...] We can sit on top of all of the data in [our data warehouse] as opposed to just, like, our little ingested, you know, three gigabytes semantic models. I think we have a lot of power here.”
“Gave Athena the spreadsheet, explained which column I was trying to figure out, and then ten secs it told me... exactly how the calculation was based on the other data.”
“He wrote the entire stuff. By itself. And I was there, and I was thinking, alright. If I had to write all this stuff, I mean, I would've spent days, days, days.”
“I send that to the programmer and he said, alright. I read your file. I copied the section of the code because he has the right interface, and it works. Wow. Just like magic.”
“One workspace. All different, let's say, avatars of their output data. Right? Suddenly, it's dashboard. Excel is here. PowerPoint is when it's all together. It's very impressive.”
“Use the Athena platform probably closer to the concept and how it was designed, like, with the spaces architecture where you've got a set of primitives and capabilities, and you bring together the right set of capabilities to solve a task.”
“Digital worker, it gets spun up, it gets given access to the toolkits that it needs. It gets given access to the data that it needs. Just exists for the period it needs to exist to perform the task. And then it gets torn back down again afterwards.”
“I like that direction, that concept of the agent is the agent. It becomes an entity in its own right with its own ownership and its own missioning, and you get rid of the gray area and the blurry lines.”
“It was PowerPoint... there was no kind of distinction between the two. So that was killer. And I literally had a meeting on it today, and people said how great it was.”
Verbatim from customer calls. Customers anonymized.
One platform, three ways to build
Agents for the question in the side panel: "does this rule touch our retention policy?" Workflows (AOPs) for the recurring: the digest, the questionnaire, the vendor review. Applications for the many: a questionnaire portal that business owners and outside parties open, with access included in Athena services.
How It Fits Your Stack
Integrations
Regulator and agency sites, SharePoint, Outlook, your GRC or policy tool, Excel and Word. Runs in our cloud or your VPC, on-prem or air-gapped. Zero data retention with every model provider, and discovery-aware retention and hard delete on your schedule.
What to plan for
Athena does not give legal or regulatory advice and does not decide that something is compliant. It finds, compares and drafts, and your compliance professional decides.
FAQ
Does Athena decide whether we are compliant?
No. It finds changes and gaps and drafts responses. A person decides.
Can it fill in security questionnaires?
It drafts answers from your prior responses and documents, with the source on each, and leaves unsupported questions blank.
How do we start?
One regulator feed, one policy folder, or one questionnaire, and an example of an acceptable output.
Can it run in our environment?
Yes. Managed cloud, your VPC, on-prem or air-gapped.
One platform underneath
AGS · Athena Governance System
Records every change by a person or an agent, rolls back one contributor's edits without losing anyone else's, and keeps the model, instructions, and sources behind each agent action.
Palladium · deployment
How the platform is deployed: Athena's managed cloud, your cloud on AWS, GCP, or Azure, on-prem, air-gapped, or GovCloud. Same platform in every option.
How it fits together
Build, Work, and Data on top; 150+ connectors and every surface in and out; one map of the whole platform.
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Start with one finished output.
Bring a recurring task, a sample input and an example of work you would accept.