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The Case of the Anxious Compliance Team

A regulated team wanted AI help with policy-heavy reviews, but every conversation ended in the same place: useful in theory, dangerous in practice.

Baker Street 11 April 2025 Financial Services
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What landed on our desk

Context: The organisation had mountains of procedure, evidence, and recurring internal checks. People knew some of the work was structured enough for AI assistance, yet no one wanted to be the person who greenlit a system that made confident mistakes in a controlled environment.

The real problem: The real issue was not resistance to AI. It was the absence of a workable control model. Without traceable evidence, bounded tasks, and clear escalation rules, the compliance team would never trust the output enough to put it near production.

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4-8 weeks

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