of regulated content fails legal review on the first pass under the typical agency model
Legal-ready the first pass.
FINRA-registered reviewers. MD-credentialed editors. Audit-ready workflow. The platform regulated brands use when "we'll fix it in legal review" isn't a strategy.
Two versions of the same publishing week.
14 days, three rounds, two missed deadlines.
- Agency drafts arrive without source citations
- In-house compliance flags banned phrases on round 1, performance claims on round 2
- Legal sends back a 22-comment redline at day 9
- Final reviewer is a brand-side generalist, not a registered Series 7
- Audit packet means digging through 5 Box folders
- Net cost of rework on a Fortune-500 FS program: $2.1M / yr
3 days, one round, one signed packet.
- Drafts arrive with inline citations and brand-voice pass complete
- Compliance pre-screen runs before legal sees it — FINRA, SEC, GDPR, HIPAA-aware
- Legal review is a 12-minute pass on flagged paragraphs only
- Reviewer is a registered Series 7 + 24 from the credentialed pool
- Audit packet exports as a single PDF in 30 seconds
- 91% of pieces clear legal on the first pass — measured across 14 enterprise FS programs
Five capabilities, one regulated workflow.
FINRA-registered reviewers
Real licensees in our reviewer pool. Not "FINRA-aware." Registered.
MD + JD-credentialed editors
For healthcare and legal-services content, the editor's credential matches the topic.
Compliance pre-screen
Rule-based pre-screen for FINRA, SEC, GDPR, HIPAA-aware language before legal sees the draft.
Audit-ready trail
Every reviewer, every change, every approval — exportable as a single document.
Routing rules by content type
Blog posts skip what white-papers can't. Configure once.
Localized 252 articles in 24 hours — cleared by FINRA.
An EU-wide rate change required jurisdiction-aware updates by market open. Contently's compliance workflow + AI Studio shipped them all by 4pm CET, with a single legal sign-off per region.
Localized articles. 14 jurisdictions. One legal sign-off per region. All shipped before market close. $1.4M attributable pipeline in 60 days.
Compliance-cleared content is the only kind AI cites in regulated verticals.
ChatGPT and Perplexity treat regulator-aligned, source-cited content as authoritative. Drafts that hedge for legal aren't getting cited — they're getting filtered out.