⚖️ Legal & compliance
Legal, Compliance & Professional Services
Law firms, DPOs and compliance consultants operate across multiple organizations, multiple regulatory frameworks and multiple risk profiles. For them, EVIDE solves a structural problem: the need for a single evidentiary layer that works identically regardless of the sector, the client or the applicable regulation.
When your client faces a regulatory inquiry, can you produce an external, independently verifiable record of AI oversight - not just your own documentation?
Capabilities
● Standard Intake
● External Artifacts
Without EVIDE
- Each client uses different internal systems - creating inconsistent evidentiary standards across the portfolio
- AI governance documentation is self-declared and lives inside the client's own systems - it cannot be independently verified
- A regulatory inquiry requires demonstrating oversight across multiple decisions - reconstruction takes weeks
- Different clients have different levels of governance maturity - no structured way to measure or communicate this
With EVIDE
- A single EVIDE integration works across all clients, all sectors, all regulatory frameworks - the schema is domain-agnostic
- External evidentiary anchoring: records exist outside the client's own systems and cannot be altered after the fact
- threshold_status across a client portfolio reveals governance maturity - structurally, not anecdotally
- When regulators ask: the answer is not a document. It is a verifiable record with a hash and a timestamp.
Example evidentiary record for legal, compliance and professional services
A real, API-conformant payload example - verified against the EVIDE intake schema v2.1.
{
"evide_schema": "2.1",
"source_system": "ComplianceReviewPlatform",
"source_reference": "EVT-2026-0609-1512",
"source_timestamp_utc": "2026-06-09T15:12:29Z",
"decision": {
"type": "governance_review",
"status": "finalized",
"closure_timestamp_utc": "2026-06-09T15:12:29Z",
"summary": "Declared AI governance review completed for client engagement"
},
"authority": {
"id": "compliance_reviewer_04",
"role": "Data Protection Officer",
"dapi_number": "DAPI-XXXX",
"verification": "DAPI-XXXX"
},
"client_context": {
"engagement_reference": "https://example.org/engagements/client-portfolio-ref-2026-06",
"sector_reference": "not_defined"
},
"intervention": {
"type": "declared_event",
"classification_status": "stable",
"classification_context": {
"taxonomy_reference": "https://example.org/taxonomies/client-ai-governance-taxonomy-v1.0",
"threshold_reference": "https://example.org/policies/client-oversight-policy-v1.0",
"threshold_status": "met"
},
"rationale": "AI-assisted decision reviewed for this engagement against the client's own governance structure, anchored externally",
"trace": {
"reference": "LEGAL-008/engagement-review-20260609-1512",
"access": "restricted"
}
},
"human_oversight": {
"is_declared": true,
"declared_level": "L1"
},
"handoff": {
"boundary_readiness": {
"status": "candidate",
"readiness_gate": null,
"visibility_surface": null,
"unresolved_signals": []
},
"reconstruction_independence": "declared",
"submission_status": "not_submitted",
"acceptance_status": "not_claimed"
},
"extensions": ["evidence_references"],
"evidence_references": [
{
"artifact_type": "contract_pdf",
"pointer": "dms://clients/portfolio-ref/engagement-letter-2026-06.pdf",
"declared_origin": "client document management system",
"declared_description": "Signed engagement letter establishing the scope of the governance review"
}
],
"content_hash": {
"algorithm": "SHA-256",
"value": "sha256:2c81...f735_example_not_for_submission"
}
}