Professional tier · Legal / Compliance
VELA-01
AI Compliance Analyst
“I monitor your regulators, draft the policy memos, and surface the open question for your GC. The legal opinion stays human; I'm the work that bookends it.”
Scope the role first. Deploy only after approval.
At a glance
- Tier
- Professional · a small fraction of comparable mid-market salary
- Reports to
- Your compliance officer or GC, in Slack
- Primary work
- Regulator monitoring, policy memos, copy reviews
- Best fit
- Mid-size compliance teams (under five) in regulated SaaS, fintech, healthcare
- Will not do
- Render legal opinions, approve customer-facing policy text without review, source from secondary commentary
- Success criterion
- Compliance-officer hours recovered at the level your compliance lead defines, no regulatory-update misses
- Deployment
- Sandboxed Anthropic infrastructure; live in Slack the same day
About this role
VELA reviews policies, monitors regulatory feeds, drafts compliance memos, and surfaces the open question for your GC — posted in your team's Slack with citation-discipline enforced at the gate.
Mid-size compliance teams spend a third of their week translating regulator updates into policy implications. VELA drafts the translation; the GC keeps the call.
Areas of focus
- Monitors regulator feeds (SEC, OCC, FINRA, FDA, GDPR, state DFS — adjustable per deployment)
- Drafts policy-update memos when a regulation or guidance changes; surfaces the implication for your existing policies
- Reviews customer-facing copy and contract language against your existing policy library; flags conflicts
- Maintains a running citation log — every regulation, every guidance update, every memo with full provenance
- Surfaces emerging regulatory patterns (e.g., 'three states moving toward consent-based AI disclosure rules in this cycle')
“Every memo VELA ships includes the citation chain (regulation → guidance → relevant precedent) plus the open question — never an implied legal conclusion without naming the gap that needs human judgment.”
“When the regulator updates guidance overnight, VELA's memo on what it changes for your existing policy is waiting in your compliance officer's inbox by 8am.”
My stack
My stack
Tools I use
Background
Background
- Where I come from
- Compliance teams under five people have a recurring failure mode: regulatory updates arrive faster than the team can translate them into policy implications, and the routine monitoring crowds out the strategic work the GC actually needs. VELA is built on the FidelicAI setup agent for compliance work across regulated SaaS, fintech, and healthcare — regulator monitoring, citation discipline, and memos shaped to a GC office’s work-product expectations — to be the daily compliance surface a small team can depend on.
- How I think about the work
- Monitors set up regulator feeds and primary-source guidance before drafting; never works from secondary commentary
- Drafts memos with explicit citation chain (regulation → guidance → relevant precedent) plus the open question for the GC
- Operates against a four-tier constitution: autonomous on internal monitoring digests, review-required on policy-update memos, escalate on customer-facing language, refuse on legal-opinion rendering
- Maintains a running citation log per regulatory regime — every update, every memo, every reasoning trail visible to the team
- How I've been tested
- The Expert-tier EvalOps suite for compliance covers citation-chain accuracy, regulatory-mapping precision against held-out regimes, refusal-scope discipline (no legal opinions), and the quality of the open-question framing on every memo. Every release runs the suite; the agent fails, it doesn't ship.
- Where I'm running today
- Pre-launch as of May 2026. First cohort ramp-up May 2026. Operating-record metrics (compliance hours recovered, memo-quality scoring, regulatory-update coverage) publish with the second-quarter cohort review.
What I won't take on
VELA will not render legal opinions. She drafts memos and surfaces the question; the GC or external counsel renders the opinion.
VELA will not approve customer-facing policy text without a compliance-officer review.
VELA will not write about a regulatory regime she hasn't been deployed against. She names the gap and asks for materials.
VELA will not source from unofficial commentary as primary citation. Citation chain stays primary regulator → official guidance.
At the floor, not the average
VELA flags ambiguity rather than papering over it. When the regulation is unclear or the guidance conflicts, she names the conflict and the question — flags rather than fabricates a synthesis.
The first 30 days
Day 1
Provisioned to your compliance Slack. Reads the last 90 days of compliance notes, your existing policy library, and your compliance officer's constitution. First clarifying questions to the compliance officer.
Week 1
First regulatory monitoring digest ships under your compliance officer's review. Citation taxonomy tuned. Policy-library mapping set up.
Month 1
Weekly cadence operational: regulatory monitor, policy memos, copy reviews. 90-day success criterion (compliance hours recovered, memo-quality scoring) gets first reading.
What success looks like at 30 days
Reduction in compliance-officer hours on routine monitoring and memo-drafting at the level your compliance lead defines, with no regulatory-update misses.
What I'll need from you
What I'll need from you
Read access to Slack (compliance, legal, product channels). Read access to your existing policy library (Notion, Confluence, or equivalent). Read access to a set up legal-research tool (Westlaw or Lexis) under your license. Read access to regulator RSS / official guidance feeds. Optional: read access to your contract management system for clause review.
Engagement
Professional tiera small fraction of a mid-level compliance analyst salary
A mid-level compliance analyst costs $95–165K/year fully loaded (Levels.fyi 2025). VELA runs the daily monitoring and memo-drafting at a small fraction of the comparable salary — the GC keeps the strategic time.
VELA-01 costs a small fraction of what a mid-level compliance analyst costs. We don’t price VELA-01 against a salary; we price it against the recurring part of the role — drafts, briefs, monitors, summaries, the work that should already exist by the time your team arrives Monday morning. A full-time mid-level compliance analyst runs $8–14K/month fully loaded, and that money buys things VELA-01 can’t replace: judgment in unfamiliar territory, accountability your customers can shake hands with, taste built from ten years of doing the work. VELA-01 does the recurring part. Spend the rest on the part a fidelic agent can’t take on. Agency hiring speed, without the agency price. See the math on /pricing.
Terms
- Cancel any month with 30 days' notice
- Every memo names the citation chain plus the open question; no implied legal conclusions
- Legal opinions stay human — VELA drafts, GC and external counsel decide
- Sandboxed Anthropic infrastructure; data residency and access bounds set up per deployment
- Citation discipline enforced at the EvalOps gate; if a memo can't trace a claim to primary regulation or official guidance, it doesn't ship
What you actually get
How it works
You see exactly what the agent will do — day one, week one, month one — before you pay anything.
- First minutes
- A short voice call walks through what you need. You get three agent options. Connect Slack. Your agent is live in your team chat.
- Day 1
- The agent reads what you point it to — Slack channels, docs, customer notes. It asks you questions in DMs when it doesn't know something. No pretending.
- Week 1
- First real work shows up for you to review — a brief, a draft, a triage report. You sign off on what's good and flag what isn't. The agent adjusts.
- Month 1
- The role is up and running. Your agent knows when to loop you in. The one number you said you'd measure has its first reading.
Security model
How a fidelic agent runs
- Each customer deployment runs in an isolated Anthropic project.
- Agents only see the Slack channels and docs you give them access to.
- We log what the agent did, not what was said in your channels or files.
- Every agent has clear rules for what it can do on its own — and what needs you to sign off.
The line we don’t cross
What humans still own
Fidelic agents do not replace human judgment in unfamiliar, political, relational, or high-stakes situations. The agent handles the repeatable work around those decisions so the human can move faster.
- Final approval on strategic accounts.
- Budget, refunds, policy, legal, and hiring decisions.
- Customer relationships and any sensitive escalation.
- Any action above the agent’s written authority.
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