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Citations over black boxes: how we ground every finding

In compliance, an answer you can't trace is an answer you can't use. A reviewer has to be able to defend every call to a client, an auditor, or a regulator. So our hard constraint is simple: no finding ships without a citation to a real clause.

Retrieval, not recall

We don't ask a model to remember the law. We maintain a curated corpus of the actual statutory text, retrieve the clauses that apply to a given feature, and reason strictly over what was retrieved. The model's job is to map your PRD to obligations, not to invent them.

Cited or suppressed

If the system can't tie a concern to a specific clause, it doesn't assert it as fact. It surfaces it as "needs review" with low confidence and a reason, so the human knows exactly where to look. Confidence is shown, never hidden.

Every line traced to a regulator source and citation, or it doesn't make the report.

Why this matters for trust

Grounding isn't just a quality feature; it's what makes the tool usable by professionals at all. The consultant stays in control, the citation makes the work defensible, and the corpus version is stamped on every report so you always know what the call was checked against.

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