Corlytics vs Regology: how they compare in 2026

Machine learning does three jobs on every incoming document: it decides what the document is about, condenses it, and connects it to related material. Regulatory notices, rules and enforcement actions are classified against Corlytics' universal regulatory taxonomy, long texts are summarized, and similar items are matched across datasets to flag duplication and feed gap analysis. Obligations Management goes further. Semantic parsing strips introductory and suggestive text from a rule to leave a set of action items. Specialized models map those obligations to a firm's policies, controls and products and consolidate the overlaps, and large language models propose wording that would close a gap in a policy or control. Policy Management drafts new policy content with AI, and Regulatory Risk Analytics runs Corlytics' own risk models over enforcement data. The machine learning framework that tags handbook provisions in real time was first built with the FCA in 2016 and 2017. Without the models, the version tracking, change packages, approval workflows, controls mapping and monitoring plans would still run as a regulatory workflow system.

The Smart Law Library is a curated, continuously updated body of federal law, all fifty states and international jurisdictions. It works as a product without the models, since finding a law, following its changes and reading its version history all run on it directly. Customers can import their own law libraries into it from spreadsheets and PDFs. The models drive the work on top. Three named agents, for Regulatory Change, Compliance and Research, decide which laws apply to an organization, assess the impact of incoming changes, and generate obligations, risks, controls and policies mapped to source law. Reggi, the generative assistant, answers questions in plain language, rates incoming alerts for relevance and is free for individual use.

Every alert, summary and obligation stays linked to the regulatory text it came from. The Regulation Library keeps laws, rules, handbooks and guidance in their original PDF, XML or HTML form, so second and third line teams read the documents they already know. It breaks each one down to obligation level. A version manager shows the current text of a rule beside the previous version, with changes lined in red and green, and keeps the full history. Obligations mapped to policies and controls point back to that source. Quality control is described as a process rather than a number. Subject matter experts at Corlytics validate the enriched content, and in Obligations Management the client's own experts review extracted and mapped obligations before gap reports go out. In the FCA handbook project, machine tagging ran with a review, approve or reject step and a full audit trail. No accuracy rate or test result is given for classification, summaries, extraction or mapping.

Traceability is the design goal. Each alert, assignment, decision, approval, rejection and policy update carries a timestamp and a link to the law behind it, so an obligation or control the platform generates leads back to the provision it comes from. That provision sits in Regology's own maintained library rather than the open web, and Reggi answers carry citations to it on every plan, the free one included. No accuracy figure, error rate for applicability decisions, test set or benchmark is published for the agents or for Reggi.

The platform automates the reading and routing of regulation and leaves decisions to people. Content is collected, classified and sent to the right business lines and teams without manual triage. Extraction and mapping run automatically, then the client's subject matter experts validate the results before gap reports and attestations are produced. Gap analysis returns suggested wording for a policy or control rather than changing it, and users are prompted to revisit mappings when a rule changes. Change management turns a regulatory change into a change package with owners, tasks and alerts at each stage, and records offline gap analysis alongside it. Policies pass through configurable multistage approvals. For the FCA's handbook, machine tagging ran inside a four eyes workflow in which users could review, approve or reject each change. No confidence level is described at which the models hold back output, and nothing covers what happens once a wrong mapping has reached a policy or control.

People sign off on what the agents produce. Assignments, decisions, approvals and rejections are captured and timestamped, so a person accepts or rejects each output and that choice stays in the record, with rejection a logged path rather than an exception. The agents automate repetitive manual work and flag coming changes, and compliance teams act on what they produce. The Responsible AI Policy commits to human in the loop processes for critical decisions. No threshold at which an agent defers is described, nor what the system does when applicability is uncertain or how much of its output is expected to be reviewed.

The longest running named deployment is the FCA. A pilot began in September 2016 and the Intelligent Handbook went live on 10 May 2017, with Corlytics' taxonomy and machine learning tagging covering more than 18,000 provisions. Other FCA functions use it too, including to speed up firm onboarding. Arbuthnot Latham, a London private and merchant bank, is named in a case study about centralizing group policies, with standard templates, single sign on and staff attestation among its requirements. The International Compliance Association launched an alert tool on Corlytics feeds in June 2025 for more than 30,000 members, and GRC Report began carrying its feeds in September 2026. Six more case studies are anonymous. Corlytics puts the efficiency gain at 25% for the compliance monitoring and risk insight teams of a European tier 1 bank. A crypto exchange went live in six weeks, and a United States investment manager with more than one trillion in assets replaced older third party tools with it. Client logos also include FINRA, ING, abrdn, Block, Natixis, Patria, SCOR, Swiss Re and Vontobel. The headline claims, 40% of the world's 30 largest banks as clients and policy approvals 50% faster, come without a named source.

Seven case studies describe deployments without naming the customer. They cover a sports betting platform, a large financial regulator, a global social media and technology company, a currency exchange provider, a regional bank, a cryptocurrency exchange and one of the largest American banks. The regional bank gained automated impact analysis, faster assessment of regulatory changes and better audit documentation, and the study of the large bank covers regulatory exemptions handled with AI. None of the studies gives a figure or a date. Regology was founded by former PwC compliance professionals with seven years implementing regulatory programs at large financial institutions. No named customer is paired with a measured outcome.

Each client's policies, obligation registers, impact assessments and control mappings sit in the platform, and the terms that govern that content are not public. No customer agreement, data processing agreement or confidentiality schedule is published. Nothing public says how client content is used, whether it trains the models, or how one client's data is kept apart from another's. The June 2026 privacy notice is the only data document. It covers personal data about people outside the customer relationship, such as website visitors, prospects and suppliers, though its reader list also names software users. It describes access controls, user authentication, encryption, staff confidentiality and regular security testing. ISO/IEC 42001 certifies how Corlytics governs its own AI, and ISO/IEC 27001 covers its information security management. Neither is a statement to clients about how their content may be used.

Customer data stays the customer's property, and section 6.A of the terms licenses Regology to use it only as needed to provide the services. Section 11 binds Regology to keep customer confidential information secret, to give prompt notice of legal process and to return or destroy that information on request. SOC 2 Type II covers security, availability and confidentiality, with BARR Advisory named as auditor in earlier announcements. Nothing covers segregation between customers, privilege or work product. The material in the platform is a customer's own obligations, controls, policies and compliance decisions, including what it rejected.

The product sells interpretation as well as information. The platform extracts obligations, filters them to a firm's activities and jurisdictions, suggests how a policy or control should change, and drafts policy text. In one UK bank's case, a third party consultancy used rules supplied by Corlytics to complete a rules mapping exercise the bank had agreed with its conduct regulator. The website legal notice says site content is general guidance that does not replace regulatory, compliance, risk analytics or other professional advice, and supplies it as is. It governs the website rather than the platform. No public statement says how platform output relates to legal or compliance advice, or who is responsible for checking it before a firm relies on it. The client expert validation step in Obligations Management is the clearest description of who signs off.

Section 17 of the terms says Reggi AI uses generative AI and a large language model to answer legal and regulatory questions, and that the accuracy, completeness and timeliness of its answers cannot be guaranteed. Customers are told to verify every response independently, no attorney client relationship arises, and Reggi is no substitute for legal advice, so a customer consults its own lawyer. Section 18 says the platform, services and content give no legal, tax or other professional advice. The buyers are compliance, legal and risk teams. No bar guidance is named, and nothing describes how the product supports a supervising lawyer.

An AI management system certified to ISO/IEC 42001:2023 covers the whole business. A-LIGN issued the certification in May 2025 after a two stage audit that found zero nonconformities, and Waystone Compliance Solutions advised on the program. The scope covers every product line. The program is framed around bias mitigation, risk and resilience controls across the AI lifecycle, and mapped to the EU AI Act and the UK National AI Strategy. Later releases add the NIST framework and OECD principles. Oisin Boydell, Chief Data Officer, speaks for the AI program, and founder John Byrne describes an AI by design strategy that reaches six competencies of the business. Product pages describe a science based method, ensemble models and expert validation at each stage. Test results are not published, so nothing shows how output quality varies across languages, jurisdictions or document types.

The Responsible AI Policy, effective 1 December 2024, sets out an AI risk management framework grounded in principles from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. It covers every AI system Regology develops, deploys or uses. An AI Ethics and Risk Committee approves AI projects, and an AI Risk Management Lead runs day to day risk assessment, mitigation and staff education. Each AI system is assessed for safety, security, privacy, fairness and accountability. The policy commits to regular bias audits and fairness tests, explainability techniques, human in the loop processes for critical decisions, continuous monitoring and staff training. No audit result is published, the lead is not named, and nothing covers uneven output across jurisdictions, industries or organization types.

Clients' regulatory content, obligation registers and policies live in Corlytics' cloud platform, and no published document sets retention, deletion or subprocessor terms for them. The privacy notice covers personal data only. Corlytics keeps that data for the life of an active contract, or as legal and business needs require, then deletes or anonymizes it, with the detail in an unpublished Data Retention Policy. Breaches are notified without undue delay and reported to the supervisory authority under an unpublished Data Breach Management Policy. Luca Dalla Giacoma is the named Data Protection Officer. The same notice lists access controls, authentication, encryption, IP anonymization, network security, business continuity and disaster recovery, and regular testing. It names recipients only by category: staff, technical service providers acting as processors or subprocessors, authorities such as HMRC, professional advisers and buyers of the business. The ISO/IEC 27001 certificate covers the information security management behind the service.

Section 11.E of the terms has Regology return or destroy customer confidential information at the customer's option on written request, then certify it in writing, and section 10 confines personal data to performing the services. SOC 2 Type II covers security, availability and confidentiality, and Regology states a continuing commitment to keeping it. The Responsible AI Policy names data security measures, responsible data sourcing and consent mechanisms in a line each. No default retention period, encryption detail, access control description, named subprocessor list, hosting provider or incident notice practice is published.

The only public legal document is a website notice. It supplies site content as is, disclaims accuracy, timeliness and completeness, and excludes liability for direct, indirect, consequential and other damages arising from the site. The client application sits behind a sign in, and no customer agreement, order form or service terms is published, so the platform's warranties, indemnities and liability limits are not public. Clients use the output in front of regulators. Firms rely on Corlytics mappings to evidence compliance and attest to supervisors, and one UK bank used Corlytics rules in a rules mapping exercise agreed with its conduct regulator. No public term says who carries the loss if a mapping, summary or suggested policy change turns out to be wrong.

Section 22.A of the terms, last updated 9 January 2025, has Regology defend and indemnify the customer against third party claims that the platform or services infringe intellectual property. Combination and refusal of replacement exclusions apply, and the remedies are to procure a right, modify, replace, or terminate and refund unused fees. Section 21 excludes consequential loss and caps each party at the fees paid or payable in the twelve months before the claim, with indemnification, gross negligence and willful misconduct outside the cap. Section 19 provides the platform and content as is, section 17 says Reggi answers cannot be guaranteed and must be verified, and section 20 disclaims third party content. No insurance is stated.

The platform is built to sit beside a firm's GRC stack and feed it. The Regulation Library is described as fully API ready, with an Open API for major GRC platforms. Regulatory Monitoring, Obligations Management and Compliance Monitoring each send data or outcomes into a firm's GRC environment, and an investment manager client uses the data to feed its internal compliance newsletter. The FCA handbook project connected to the regulator's existing content repository, and Taxonomy Manager for Regulators links digital handbooks to online portals and obligation registers. The partners page shows logos for IBM, ServiceNow, Solidatus and Chainalysis among others. Inside the platform, controls mapping links obligations to a firm's policies, standards, procedures, controls and processes, and taxonomy routing sends content to the right business lines and teams. No connector is named, and there is no public API reference or integration guide that shows what syncs and in which direction.

Regology sits beside governance, risk and compliance systems as a regulatory intelligence and data layer rather than replacing them. Direct integrations with GRC platforms, ServiceNow, Archer and Diligent among them, sync authority documents, citations and regulatory content into the GRC tool, with change alerts, impact assessments and a backlink to the full document in Regology. A GRC tool without a direct connector, or a homegrown system, connects through an open API that takes REST and JSON, XML, CSV and flat files over SFTP. Customers can upload existing law libraries from spreadsheets and PDFs. GRC and custom API integrations come with the Enterprise plan. What an administrator configures for each integration is not described.

Delivery runs from Corlytics' own cloud, the environment named in its ISO/IEC 27001 scope. Implementations run remotely across time zones, led by a dedicated implementation team, and Corlytics says go lives can take a matter of weeks. The security page lists geo specific hosting among its principles. The hosting provider, regions and tenancy model are not named, and no choice of location is offered. The only geography in the privacy notice concerns personal data transfers outside the UK and EEA, which rely on adequacy decisions, approved contracts or other safeguards. Group companies in Ireland, England, Portugal and the United States describe where Corlytics operates rather than where client data sits.

Regology runs as a cloud service, and the Enterprise plan includes round the clock cloud IT support. No hosting provider, region, customer selectable residency or tenancy model is published, and nothing separates where processing happens from where data is stored. Coverage reaches more than 135 countries and the buyers include multinational compliance teams.

Three certifications are named. ISO/IEC 27001 covers all activities of Corlytics Limited in delivering data and software for legislation, regulation and document management services from its cloud solutions. A SOC 2 Type 1 report from the independent CPA firm Thoropass tests control design against all five Trust Services Criteria at a point in time. ISO/IEC 42001:2023 came from A-LIGN in May 2025. An Information Security Manager runs the security program, whose principles include secure development, testing and quality assurance, continuous integration testing, infrastructure controls, geo specific hosting and incident response. One reinsurer cleared Corlytics through its own digital governance process as an approved third party supplier before rollout. No report or certificate is posted, and the security page invites readers to get in touch for more on its procedures.

Regology holds SOC 2 Type II. Its announcements name BARR Advisory as auditor and give the scope as security and availability, later security, confidentiality and availability, and Regology states a continuing commitment to maintaining the certification. No current report date, coverage period or renewal is published. No trust center or security page carries the report, and interested customers are invited to get in touch for it.

Its AI is presented as the company's own work. Ensemble models with expert oversight handle classification and summaries, and specialized machine learning models handle obligation mapping. Gap remediation suggestions come from what Corlytics calls expert LLMs, and handbook tagging runs on a machine learning framework first built with the FCA. No model, model family or provider is named for any of them, and whether a third party foundation model is called, or where inference runs, is not stated. The ISO/IEC 42001 management system covers every product line, with no list of the models it governs and no commitment to tell clients when they change.

Under section 17 of the terms, Reggi runs on generative AI and a large language model, and Regology describes the platform as using the industry's most advanced AI and agents. Reggi is presented as a generative AI model built on top of Bloomberg Regology that draws on more than 16 million laws and regulations and tailors its answers to a company's business activities. No model, model provider, processing location or subprocessor is named, and no notice of supply chain changes is committed.

Buying Corlytics starts with a demo and a sales conversation, and no prices, plan names or units of charge are published. The platform is modular. In its case studies, clients start with Regulatory Monitoring and add Risk Analytics, Compliance Management or Clausematch policy management, and one payments provider added two modules within a month of going live. Implementation is run by a dedicated team, with an implementation manager for each client, in sprints. A crypto exchange went live in six weeks, while one reinsurer's rollout ran through requirements and design, a proof of concept and approval as a third party supplier. Modules and configuration can be added after go live. No figure is published for licenses, implementation or the work of building a firm's taxonomy and obligation register.

Bloomberg Regology sells three plans. Reggi, the generative assistant, is free for individual use and covers summaries of regulatory material, questions on American laws and regulations and general compliance questions, with citations on every answer. Professional is $1,700 per user a month on a three year contract. It adds the Smart Law Library for federal law and all 50 states, regulatory change alerts with impact assessments, Reggi across the library and alerts, full text lookup across American content, and dashboards and reports. Enterprise is quoted on request and adds global jurisdictions, customizable topics, lookup across more than 16 million documents, group workflows, compliance, risk, task and policy management, controls testing and GRC integrations. No implementation fee is published.

Buyers are regulated financial firms and the regulators that oversee them, with a second line of business in health and life sciences. Sector pages cover global and private banks, hedge fund and investment managers, global insurers, payments and big tech, and regulators. Case studies add a reinsurer, a crypto exchange, a UK retail and commercial bank, a London merchant bank and a United States investment manager. Regulators buy a Taxonomy Manager edition that turns handbooks into machine readable, searchable databases with visual maps by theme, product and business line. Health and life sciences clients get regulatory sensing, guidance assessment, digital call for comments assessments and a repository that supports submissions. Financial services modules cover horizon scanning, the regulation library, obligations, change management, controls mapping, policy management, compliance monitoring, regulatory risk analytics and nonfinancial risk across operational, conduct, third party, cyber, AI and governance risk. Product pages speak to compliance, risk and audit teams and their chief officers, and case studies show legal teams working alongside them. No limit by firm size, jurisdiction or language is stated.

Coverage spans federal law, all fifty states and international jurisdictions in more than 135 countries, and the library is continuously updated. Professional stops at federal and state content from the United States, and global coverage comes with Enterprise. One platform serves every industry rather than splitting by sector, with dedicated pages for banking, crypto and digital assets, energy and utilities, gaming and sports betting, government and regulatory authorities, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing and software. Buyers are compliance, legal and risk teams at organizations from startups to large corporations. No list of the international jurisdictions, no completeness or lag statement for each, and no statement of what the platform is not built for is published.