The compliance profession has a productivity crisis hiding in plain sight. Financial institutions and regulated businesses collectively spend more than $300bn annually on compliance, yet the tools used to do the work have barely evolved in two decades.
A new platform, Sherlocq, is launching today with the aim of changing that, bringing AI-native regulatory intelligence to the firms and professionals carrying the weight of that complexity.
Sherlocq recently discussed the Sherlocq launch, and how the firm is helping to redefine the future of regulatory intelligence.
The platform is the creation of a founding team that experienced regulatory research friction first-hand, watching highly skilled legal and compliance professionals spend the bulk of their working hours sifting through circulars, amendments, and jurisdictional guidance rather than delivering the strategic insight their organisations actually need.
Sherlocq was built, the company says, not by retrofitting a general-purpose AI tool, but by constructing a regulatory intelligence system from the ground up around the real workflows of compliance professionals.
At its core, Sherlocq functions as an AI-powered research layer across the regulatory landscapes of the US, UK, UAE, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Rather than returning documents in response to queries, the platform is designed to return precise, traceable answers, processing definitions, conditions, exceptions, cross-references, and amendments as interconnected information rather than isolated text.
When a provision carries exceptions, they surface. When an amendment changes the meaning of an older circular, the relationship is made visible. For cross-border queries spanning, for instance, both the DFSA rulebook and the FCA handbook simultaneously, the platform holds both in view.
Sanctions intelligence forms a particularly notable part of the proposition. Sherlocq claims to be the first AI-native platform to deliver depth and traceability across more than 320 data sources covering global sanctions regimes, including OFAC, OFSI, EU, UN, and UAE designations, within a single query.
Trust and security have been built into the architecture rather than added as an afterthought. Every answer the platform provides carries full source traceability, and the system is built to ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 standards, reflecting the data-handling obligations that regulated environments demand.
The company has drawn a pointed comparison to Harvey AI, the legal technology platform that has reshaped how law firms approach research and drafting. Sherlocq’s founders believe the regulatory and compliance world represents an equivalent — and arguably larger — untapped opportunity, and that the category of AI-powered regulatory intelligence is only now beginning to be defined.
The launch includes live AI ecosystem connectors for Claude and ChatGPT, with Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini integrations in development. The platform is available from day one across web, iOS, and Android. The company says it is already in conversation with regulators, financial institutions, and professional services firms across multiple jurisdictions who have reviewed early versions of the product.
Read the full Sherlocq post here.
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