AI is everywhere nowadays, but what is the deal with AI for compliance? The pressure to keep up with regulatory change is relentless, especially for audit and compliance teams. New mandates, evolving standards, and expanding global operations mean a constant influx of information. But the real challenge often lies in what comes next: translating those changes into actionable, audit-ready controls.
That’s where the process breaks down. Drafting new controls is time-consuming, manual, and often inconsistent — especially when teams are already stretched thin. This creates critical control gaps, leaving organisations vulnerable to non-compliance and increased risk exposure.
Diligent’s AI Control Generation uses artificial intelligence to automatically draft new controls when gaps are identified — saving time, reducing manual work, and helping teams stay ahead of change. Below, we’ll break down how it works, what makes it different, and how it supports audit and compliance professionals in their day-to-day work.
What is AI Control Generation?
AI Control Generation automatically drafts new controls when gaps are identified in your compliance framework. It’s the third AI feature in our Compliance Maps suite, following:
- AI Regulatory Comparison: This feature highlights key changes between different versions of a regulation, ensuring you understand precisely what’s new or modified.
- AI Control Mapping: This capability intelligently maps regulations to your existing controls, providing a clear overview of your current coverage and identifying potential overlaps or missing links.
Now, with AI Control Generation, you can instantly fill the identified gaps without the laborious process of starting from scratch. It’s about moving from identification to remediation — and doing it quickly.
Why AI for Compliance Matters for Leaders
Whether you’re a Chief Compliance Officer or a Director of Internal Audit, this feature helps you:
- Close compliance gaps instantly: Automatically generate controls aligned to new or updated regulations.
- Accelerate compliance readiness: Eliminate the bottlenecks of manual drafting and reduce time-to-compliance.
- Ensure consistency and audit defensibility: Use AI-generated language that aligns with regulatory intent and supports a strong audit trail.
- Scale without adding headcount: Empower your team to manage more with less, even as regulatory complexity grows.
How AI for Compliance Works
When a regulation is mapped and a gap is detected, meaning no existing control covers it, AI Control Generation steps in. It drafts a suggested control tailored to the regulation’s requirements, ready for your review and implementation. And because it’s integrated directly into Compliance Maps, it works seamlessly with your existing control library, avoiding duplication and ensuring full coverage.
Now, let’s take a closer look at how this works in real-world scenarios, offering practical strategies for you and your team:
1. Instantly generate audit-ready controls for internal auditors
Imagine you’re preparing for a quarterly audit and discover a newly enacted data privacy regulation that isn’t yet covered in your control library. Traditionally, this would mean hours of research, drafting, and internal review. With AI Control Generation, you simply identify the gap, and the system drafts a new control instantly, perfectly aligned to your existing framework and ready for your review. This dramatically cuts down on prep-time and ensures your audits are always based on the most current controls.
2. Ensure comprehensive coverage across jurisdictions for compliance officers
Imagine you’re tasked with rolling out a new policy or business initiative across multiple international jurisdictions, each with its own unique regulatory nuances. Manually ensuring every regulatory requirement is covered, without duplicating existing controls or missing critical local mandates, is a monumental task. AI Control Generation ensures every regulatory requirement is addressed, intelligently suggesting controls that complement your existing library, providing a truly global and consistent compliance posture.
Before vs. after: The compliance transformation
- Before AI Control Generation
- After AI Control Generation
- Manual drafting of new controls
- Instant AI-generated controls
- Inconsistent language and formatting
- Standardised, audit-ready language
- Long review and approval cycles
- Faster implementation and alignment
- Resource-intensive updates
- Scalable compliance without added headcount
- Purpose-built for compliance professionals
Unlike generic AI tools or large language models, Diligent’s AI Control Generation is purpose-built. It’s trained explicitly on regulatory language and designed to integrate seamlessly into compliance workflows. This isn’t just smart technology; it’s strategic intelligence tailored for the unique demands of governance, risk, and compliance. It understands the nuances of regulatory text and the requirements of an audit-ready control environment.
Part of A Smarter Compliance Suite
AI Control Generation is the final piece in a powerful trio of AI capabilities:
- AI Regulatory Comparison – Understand what’s changed
- AI Control Mapping – See what you already have
- AI Control Generation – Fill in what’s missing
Together, they deliver end-to-end automation—from regulatory analysis to control creation.
Ready to see it in action?
AI Control Generation is available now for all Compliance Maps customers – book your personalised demo to see what Diligent can do for you.
