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What is AI compliance for business?

AI compliance for business is the set of controls a company applies to make sure its AI usage meets data-handling, audit, and regulatory expectations. The core controls are: read-only access by default, AI-provider plan policies apply to conversation handling, auditable answers with cited source links, and documented OAuth scopes. CorpusIQ delivers each of those by design, maintains a SOC 2 aligned posture, and is CASA Tier 2 certified by DEKRA. Your AI provider's plan policy governs its conversation handling.

The five controls every buyer should check

Read-only access by default. AI-provider plan policies apply to conversation handling. Auditable answers with cited source links. Documented OAuth scopes that the operator can revoke in one click. SOC 2 aligned posture with quarterly review against the trust criteria. These five are the practical compliance floor; anything weaker is a step back.

Why read-only matters first

Read-only access prevents the worst-case outcome: an assistant mistakenly modifying or deleting a record. Most compliance regimes care about authenticity of the audit trail. If the AI cannot write, it cannot corrupt. Operator stays in control of every change.

How model-training terms vary by plan

Assistant vendors (Anthropic, OpenAI, Perplexity) publish storage and training terms per plan. Check the policy for the plan you use; commercial and enterprise tiers commonly include stronger controls. CorpusIQ does not override those conversation-handling terms.

Where audit logging fits

Cited answers are the basic audit signal: every claim the assistant makes points back to a source record the operator can click and verify. For regulated workflows that need stronger logging, add a connector audit log (CorpusIQ tracks connector connections and disconnections) on top of the operator's existing audit posture in the connected tools.

Industry-specific overlays

Beyond the five floor controls, regulated industries layer their own requirements: HIPAA business-associate agreements for healthcare, FINRA recordkeeping for finance, SOX controls for public companies. CorpusIQ is not currently positioned for HIPAA-covered PHI workflows; for general business operations in regulated industries, the floor controls plus the operator's own existing audit posture in the underlying tools typically cover the use case.

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