AI agents for compliance: Improve accuracy, reduce manual effort

As digital transformation accelerates, compliance is no longer a back-office obligation. Expanding regulations, rapid technology adoption, and distributed operating models have pushed compliance risk into the boardroom, particularly as organisations scale their use of AI. A Gartner survey of 360 IT leaders found that over 70% rank regulatory compliance as one of the top three barriers to realising GenAI productivity gains.

In this context, AI agents for compliance are emerging as a powerful enabler. Purpose-built to automate controls, continuously monitor risk, and adapt to evolving regulatory requirements, these agents enable earlier issue detection, consistent policy enforcement, and audit-ready evidence by design. When implemented effectively, they don’t constrain innovation; they reinforce it, repositioning compliance as a foundation for trust, resilience, and sustainable growth.

Why organisations are turning to AI agents for compliance

Compliance is now a competitive differentiator, with 77% of UK businesses saying it strengthens their advantage. But traditional approaches built on manual reviews, siloed tools, and periodic checks, can’t be enough to meet evolving regulatory demands.

That’s why organisations are turning to AI agents. At OneAdvanced, our AI agents are designed to embed compliance into everyday work by automating controls, improving consistency, and reducing risk without slowing productivity. Here are key reasons why organisations need AI agents for compliance and how we can help them.

The rising cost of fragmented compliance processes

Reason: Fragmented compliance processes drive up cost and risk by spreading policies and controls across disconnected teams and systems. The result is duplicated work, inconsistent interpretation, and a heavy reliance on manual reviews and external support.

Solution: At OneAdvanced, our AI agents address this challenge by embedding intelligent automation directly into core workflows. They connect with existing systems to autonomously manage risk analysis, document review, data handling, and policy enforcement, delivering consistent control application, full traceability, and stronger compliance with far less manual effort.

Regulatory changes outpace traditional compliance frameworks

Reason: Regulation is evolving faster than ever, with new laws, guidance, and supervisory expectations arriving continuously and often overlapping. Static policies, manual gap analyses, and periodic testing can’t keep up, creating delays, inconsistent interpretation, and growing compliance risk.

Solution: OneAdvanced AI agents close this gap by continuously monitoring and interpreting regulatory updates using natural language processing. By embedding updated rules directly into everyday workflows and triggering remediation at the point of action, these agents create an always audit-ready environment, helping organisations stay compliant without slowing innovation.

The gap between policy intent and operational execution

Reason: For many organisation, the biggest compliance risk lies not in policy design, but in execution. As policies move through complex systems, decentralised teams, and manual processes, interpretation varies and evidence is gathered too late, creating blind spots that often surface only during audits.

Solution: OneAdvanced addresses this at the source. Our AI agents are compliant by design, operating within a robust AI Governance Framework that aligns the EU AI Act’s risk-based requirements with NIST’s AI Risk Management principles. This ensures consistent, trustworthy execution while anticipating future UK regulatory expectations, giving organisations confidence, clarity, and operational excellence as they scale.

What do AI agents for compliance do

AI agents operate across systems, data, and processes to enforce rules consistently, surface risk early, and keep organisations audit-ready by design. Here’s what they do:

Monitor systems and documents continuously

AI agents continuously monitor activities across systems, data, and documents in real time, rather than relying on scheduled reviews or periodic checks. Using anomaly detection and pattern recognition, they surface deviations, emerging risks, and potential non-compliance early, resulting in faster issue detection, fewer interpretation errors, and a consistently enforced compliance posture across the organisation.

Streamline regulatory mapping and policy alignment

AI agents continuously analyse new and updated regulations, mapping each requirement directly to existing policies, risks, and controls. By automatically highlighting gaps where controls are missing, outdated, or misaligned, they remove the need for time-consuming manual reviews and subjective interpretation. This creates a clear, real-time view of compliance coverage, enabling organisations to prioritise remediation and update controls with confidence.

Automate evidence collection for audits

AI agents can automatically compile logs, transaction histories, communication records, and other evidence required for audits. By generating structured audit-ready reports, documentation packages, and compliance logs, they modernise time-consuming, manual evidence collection process. This makes audits far less burdensome, reduces the risk of missing documentation, and ensures organisations are always prepared for regulatory review.

Support decisions for high-value governance activities

AI agents support boards, risk committees, and compliance leaders by synthesising complex information into concise summaries, classifications, and recommendations. Instead of wading through reports, alerts, and raw data, leaders gain a clear, real-time view of where attention is needed, or which risks are increasing. This strengthens accountability, improves transparency, and enables faster, more confident responses to emerging risk.

Key benefits of AI agents for compliance

These are the core benefits of deploying AI agents to strengthen compliance while transforming how work gets done.

Reduce compliance risk through real-time oversight

Instead of relying on periodic reviews, AI agents continuously assess quality and adherence across live operations, surfacing risks as they emerge. OneAdvanced’s Matter Quality Agent analyses cases in real time to flag inconsistencies, missing steps, or potential issues early, shifting compliance from reactive checks to continuous assurance and significantly reducing the likelihood of costly gaps going unnoticed.

Increase operational efficiency and eliminate manual review cycles

AI agents turn high-volume compliance activities, such as file reviews, control checks, and quality assurance, into automated workflows. OneAdvanced’s File Quality Review Agent is a clear example. It automates checks of legal files for completeness and regulatory requirements, providing real-time visibility into compliance status across thousands of matters. The result is faster throughput, lower operational overhead, and compliance teams freed to focus on higher-value governance and risk management activities.

Watch this video to discover more about these agents.

Strengthen compliance records with standardised process

AI agents enhance compliance by enforcing standardised processes and producing consistent, structured documentation, eliminating the variability and gaps that manual handling often introduces. A prime example is our Risk Assist AI, which standardises how risks are captured, described, and managed. By generating consistent risk statements, applying a unified taxonomy, and aligning mitigation strategies with defined frameworks, Risk Assist ensures every risk is documented using the same structure and logic.