Sherlocq Launches the First AI-Native Regulatory Intelligence Platform for Global Financial Services

WHY THIS MATTERS: The launch of Sherlocq speaks directly to the critical—and costly—challenge of regulatory compliance facing global financial institutions. While the industry has long relied on conventional RegTech solutions, this news signals a significant pivot toward highly specialized, vertical AI. The existing paradigm, which costs the sector over $300 billion annually, is fundamentally broken, requiring millions of professionals to perform tedious manual research across diverse jurisdictions. This new AI-native platform addresses that inefficiency head-on by promising precise, traceable, and synthesized regulatory answers in seconds. For any institution operating across borders, this shift from mere monitoring to genuine, institutional-scale intelligence is the only path toward reducing existential risk and unlocking millions in operational savings today. It represents the next necessary evolution in how high-stakes governance is managed.

Sherlocq, the first AI-native regulatory intelligence platform for global financial services, announced its public launch. Designed for compliance officers, lawyers, risk professionals, and regulators who operate at the intersection of law, governance, and institutional accountability, Sherlocq delivers regulatory intelligence that is precise, traceable, and usable at institutional scale.

The launch marks the emergence of a new category in enterprise AI: regulatory intelligence, a vertical distinct from generic AI assistants, conventional regtech monitoring tools, and document management platforms. Sherlocq has been built from the ground up to meet the security, privacy, and domain standards that regulated institutions require, and which no general-purpose AI platform has been designed to deliver.

THE PROBLEM

Financial institutions, law firms, regulators, and consultants collectively spend over $300 billion every year on regulatory compliance. More than ten million professionals carry the weight of that complexity daily, tracking regulatory changes across dozens of jurisdictions, reviewing thousands of documents, and making high-stakes decisions that can determine the fate of institutions and individuals alike.

Until now, the tools available have been fundamentally inadequate: monitoring without interpretation, alerts without answers, search without synthesis. Regulatory research has remained a largely manual process for decades. Vertical AI has already demonstrated category-defining value in adjacent domains. Regulatory intelligence represents a larger, more global, and more complex opportunity.
Sherlocq changes that.

THE PLATFORM

At launch, Sherlocq covers the regulatory output of governments, supervisory authorities, and enforcement bodies across 30+ jurisdictions, including the US, UK, UAE, Singapore, and Hong Kong. It ingests, structures, and indexes this information continuously, so when a compliance officer, lawyer, or risk professional asks a question, Sherlocq returns a precise, sourced, and traceable answer in seconds. Research that previously required hours of manual work across multiple sources is completed in under a minute.

The platform launches with three live capabilities:

Regulatory Research and Analysis – Multi-jurisdiction research, cross-border regulatory comparison, compliance framework analysis, and obligation mapping across the full spectrum of financial services regulation, covering all major regulated financial centres.

Document Intelligence – Structured review, gap assessment, benchmarking, and policy analysis against applicable regulatory standards, available on the native Sherlocq platform.

Sanctions Intelligence – Real-time, multi-regime sanctions research across OFAC, OFSI, EU, UAE, and 320+ data sources in a single query, with full source traceability. The first AI-native platform to deliver this level of depth and auditability across multiple sanctions regimes simultaneously.

Sherlocq is available on web, iOS, and Android, for individual professionals and enterprise organisations. AI connectors are live for Claude and ChatGPT, enabling regulatory research to be accessed directly within the tools professionals already use. Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini integrations follow shortly.

Sherlocq is certified to ISO 27001 and ISO 27701 standards, meeting the security and data privacy requirements of regulated financial institutions globally.

FOUNDER’S STATEMENT

“I have spent my career sitting across the table from regulators, leading investigations at the highest levels, and advising institutions in the most consequential moments of their existence. In every one of those engagements, the same problem recurred: brilliant professionals, at world-class institutions, spending most of their time on research and cross-referencing that should have been automated years ago. Not because the technology did not exist. Because no one had built it with the rigour, the domain depth, and the institutional trust that this work demands. That is what we built. Sherlocq is not a general AI tool adapted for compliance. It is the intelligence infrastructure that this industry has always needed and never had.” – Bhavin Shah, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Sherlocq

FF NEWS TAKE: Yes, this moves the needle significantly by proving that general-purpose AI is inadequate for the domain-specific rigor of finance. Sherlocq’s focus on multi-jurisdiction research and sanctions intelligence is a powerful statement about the future of compliance automation. We anticipate that institutional trust will hinge not just on speed, but on auditability and source traceability, which this platform prioritizes. Watch for competitors in the RegTech space to rapidly pivot from simple monitoring to deep, vertical-specific AI intelligence to keep pace with this new standard.