Overview
A leading GCC nation’s central government finance authority launched a Compliance Intelligence Program (CIP) to modernize how public finance compliance is assured across government agencies.
Built on Denodo’s logical data management platform, CIP transforms compliance from a manual, document-driven process into a real-time governance function by interpreting financial regulations and validating them continuously against live, governed data.
Why Denodo
Real-time public finance compliance demands more than AI models. It requires a trusted data and governance orchestration layer that ensures AI agents reason over current, authorized data and operate within clearly defined legal and operational boundaries.
Denodo enables this by providing:
- A logical, governed data layer for AI agents, unifying financial and legal data across systems without replication
- Controlled, real-time access at runtime, ensuring agents reason only over trusted, authorized, and up-to-date operational data
- Governance enforced at the point of access, including semantics, policies, lineage, and controls applied consistently across every AI interaction
- A scalable data control plane for agentic AI, enabling reliable, explainable, and auditable compliance outcomes across departments and future agencies
Challenges
As the nation accelerated its digital government agenda, its central finance authority faced a fundamental constraint. Public finance compliance had to be both correct and immediate at national scale.
Correct interpretation required expert judgment, but manual processes could not keep pace with the volume and velocity of public sector decisions. Compliance also had to be enforced consistently across public projects, departments, and systems, with no tolerance for misinterpretation or delay.
Key constraints included:
- Speed and correctness at institutional scale: Financial regulations are complex and frequently updated, with changes triggering multiple downstream obligations that could not be applied reliably through manual processes.
- Consistent enforcement across public projects and departments: Compliance had to be validated continuously across projects and approvals, despite different workflows and systems across departments.
- Manual processes that could not scale: Expert-led verification ensured accuracy, but was too slow and resource-intensive for continuous, real-time assurance.
- Fragmented data and limited operational visibility: Regulatory, financial, and project data were spread across systems, and existing tools could not reliably connect legal obligations to governed financial actions.
The Solution
The Compliance Intelligence Program (CIP) was implemented to move public finance compliance from periodic, manual checks to continuous, real-time assurance.
Denodo was deployed as a logical data layer unifying financial systems, public project data, and regulatory repositories into a single, governed view without replicating data. This created a consistent semantic foundation linking legal obligations directly to operational financial activity.
On this foundation, AI components interpret financial regulations, map obligations to workflows, and validate compliance at the level of individual public projects, approvals, and transactions.
Six specialized AI agents orchestrate the reasoning workflow, covering regulatory interpretation, gap analysis, validation, corrective guidance, and bilingual report generation. Each agent securely accesses only the data it is authorized to use through Denodo.
All data access and reasoning flows through Denodo, ensuring compliance validation is based on current, governed information and remains explainable, auditable, and controlled as the program scales.
Benefits
- Clause-level compliance in minutes: Automates checks down to individual law articles and clauses, reducing review cycles from weeks to minutes.
- Reduced manual workload for legal and finance teams: Eliminates manual verification, allowing teams to focus on higher-value governance activities.
- Stronger governance across public projects: Provides continuous visibility into compliance gaps and regulatory alignment, helping keep projects compliant, on schedule, and within budget.
- Bilingual compliance reporting: Automatically generates Arabic and English reports, improving clarity and cross-department collaboration.
- Future-ready data and AI foundation: Establishes a secure, scalable architecture with Denodo, enabling further automation and analytics across the public sector.
Click here to download the case study.
