Governed AI for Regulated Industries
Every regulated firm faces the same underlying problem — AI adoption without governance creates liability, evidential gaps, and regulatory exposure. AiSensa is built to solve it, whatever your sector.
A fee earner uploads a confidential client document marked "Restricted — Not for AI Processing" to an ungoverned AI tool. The breach has already happened.
Legal
A single breach of client matter confidentiality can result in regulatory sanction, professional liability, and reputational damage that takes years to recover from. For legal firms handling vulnerable client data — Court of Protection, mental capacity, family — the stakes are higher still.
Your fee earners are already using AI. Not because they are careless — but because AI is genuinely useful and the governed pathway either doesn't exist or creates too much friction. AiSensa solves both problems at once.
The SRA's approach to AI is evolving rapidly. Firms without documented, evidenceable governance are exposed to regulatory scrutiny they cannot defend against. A policy document is not a defence. An audit trail is.
Uploading client personal data to an ungoverned AI tool — even unintentionally — is a data breach under UK GDPR. The ICO's enforcement activity around AI data handling is accelerating.
Professional indemnity insurers and panel procurement teams are beginning to ask for evidence of AI governance controls. Firms that cannot provide it are exposed at renewal and at tender.
Clients are beginning to ask where their matter data goes when AI is used on it. A firm that can answer that question with a verified, architectural guarantee is ahead of the market.
The Problem
"The problem isn't Sarah."
Sarah Mitchell, a trusted Court of Protection fee earner, uploads a Deputyship Order marked "Strictly Confidential — Not for AI Processing" to an ungoverned AI tool. The tool flags the sensitivity. The breach has already happened. No record. No audit trail. No defensible position. The problem isn't Sarah — it's the absence of governance at the point where AI meets the work.
Discover
"AiSensa already knew."
A single Graph API subscription indexes the entire M365 tenant — SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive. Sarah's COP/2024/0047 files were fingerprinted at ingest. Every document carries an invisible Custom XML fingerprint — content hash, governance record, timestamped — that survives edits, renames, and re-uploads. The compliance scan surfaces 671 documents with zero governance classification. Policy exists. The estate doesn't reflect it. Now it can.
Govern
"Close the gap before it becomes a crisis."
The Court of Protection — Protected Person policy is applied. AI_Classification and AI_Usage_Constraint metadata is written back to SharePoint in real time — enforced at the point where documents meet AI tools, not at the cloud boundary. An attempted upload of a welfare assessment is blocked immediately — clear message, event logged, defensible record created.
Enable
"Governance that works with people, not against them."
Sarah queries the Deputyship Order. The document requires supervisor approval — routed to Richard Okafor, the supervising partner named in the order itself. He reviews the full query and matter context. He approves. The AI delivers a legally grounded response — COP Rules 2017, PD 9E, MCA 2005 s.4, three relevant cases. Timestamped. UK-resident. On the record. Sarah's productivity is intact. The firm's compliance record is intact.
Monitor
"The operational picture, over time."
Four weeks after deployment: 73% AIG-001 compliance, up from 0%. 671 documents fingerprinted. 47 governed AI interactions. 6 supervisor approvals on the record. Sarah's full event timeline visible in a single audit trail. When an insurer, a regulator, or a client asks for evidence of AI governance controls — the answer is a timestamped, immutable record. Not a policy document.
How It Works in Practice
AiSensa doesn't block AI. It ensures every interaction with governed content follows the right pathway — automatically.
Required before AI proceeds
High-sensitivity documents require named supervisor review before any AI interaction is permitted. The query, the matter context, and the approval decision are all logged.
Automatic — no friction
Documents classified as approved pathway proceed automatically. No approval required, no delay. The interaction is logged. Sarah's productivity is intact.
AI access prevented
Welfare assessments, vulnerable adult records, and documents carrying a hard prohibition are blocked at the point of AI interaction. Clear message. Directed to supervising partner. Logged — not to penalise, but to protect.
The Mental Capacity Act is a legislative expression of human-in-the-loop thinking. AiSensa is its technological counterpart. When a Court of Protection document is flagged before AI interaction, we are not imposing a governance constraint. We are expressing the firm's own professional values — in code, in workflow, in the moment of decision.
What You Get — Legal
AiSensa is shaped around the specific regulatory and workflow context of UK legal practice. Not a generic AI platform with a legal use case bolted on.
Governance applied at the matter and document level — not just the user level. The right controls follow the right documents, wherever they go.
AI-assisted policy creation built from your actual regulatory obligations. Tested for enforceability. Updated in minutes when an incident occurs or obligations change.
A live, improving governance record that answers due diligence questions from PI insurers at renewal and panel procurement teams at tender. Compounds over time as a competitive asset.
Azure UK South and UK West only. No data leaves the UK. Not a configuration option — a hard architectural fact you can communicate directly to clients and regulators.
Governed AI agents for legal research, document drafting, and precedent work. The same AI capability your fee earners want — with the governance the firm requires.
Seneca Legal — 4 Weeks Post-Deployment
From 0% to 73% compliance in four weeks — using existing SharePoint infrastructure, no new Microsoft licences, and a read-only discovery phase that required no changes to the live estate.
The Competitive Landscape
Harvey.ai is the reference point. £3,000 per seat per year. No UK data residency guarantee. No governance infrastructure. AiSensa is the answer for every firm that needs governed AI but cannot justify — or access — Harvey's price point.
Next Step — Legal
A scoped proof of concept — read-only, no changes to your infrastructure, no data leaving your environment. We map your estate, surface your exposure, and show you exactly what governed AI looks like in your firm.
Read-only discovery phase — no changes to your live estate, no data leaving your infrastructure.
Accountancy
Accountancy firms handle highly sensitive client financial data at volume. Fee earner time directly drives revenue — and the pressure to adopt AI to accelerate that work is real. But AI tools used outside a governance framework create both regulatory exposure and reputational risk that firms are only beginning to understand.
The good news: the same governance framework that manages the risk also unlocks the productivity. AiSensa doesn't make you choose between compliance and capability.
The FRC's evolving guidance on AI in audit and the ICAEW's AI framework both require firms to demonstrate how AI is being used, governed, and overseen in client work. Documentation is not enough. Evidence is.
Client financial data is highly sensitive personal data under UK GDPR. Any AI processing — even by a fee earner using a consumer tool — must be lawful, documented, and auditable. The ICO is watching.
Accountancy firms carry the same fundamental duty of client confidentiality as legal firms. A fee earner uploading a client's management accounts to an ungoverned AI tool is a breach — regardless of intent.
AI-assisted audit work must be documentable and defensible. If the AI interaction isn't logged, it didn't happen — or worse, it happened in a way you cannot account for.
What You Get — Accountancy
AiSensa enables accountancy firms to adopt AI productively and safely — governed from day one, evidenceable to regulators and clients, and built around the workflows fee earners actually use.
AI controls applied at the client file and engagement level. The right governance follows the right documents — wherever fee earners take them.
AI governance policy built from your actual regulatory obligations — FRC, ICAEW, ACCA, ICO. Tested for enforceability. Updated when obligations change.
Governed AI agents that accelerate high-value back-office work — identifying priority debtors, drafting client communications, and surfacing actionable insight from aged debt data.
The same AI capability your fee earners want for research, drafting, and client work — with the governance controls the firm requires. No trade-off between speed and compliance.
A complete, independent audit trail for every AI interaction. Exportable for FRC inspection, ICAEW review, or client due diligence — from the moment you go live.
Next Step — Accountancy
We identify the right use case for your firm — a governance gap, a productivity bottleneck, a compliance obligation — and demonstrate measurable value before you commit to a platform.
Fixed-price discovery sprint. Problem-first. Value before platform commitment.
Financial Services
AiSensa's governance architecture is built for FCA-regulated environments — customer data protection, audit trails for AI-assisted decisions, and UK data residency as a client-facing guarantee. We're working with our first financial services clients now.