We developed AI-assisted features within Simplifi’s existing legal-register platform: question cards for legislation applicability, guidance during compliance assessments and an executive summary across the register. The work connects AI to a specialist business application and the information its users are already reviewing.
Keeping up with legislation is a business challenge.
UK companies must understand and meet the legal requirements that apply to their operations. Depending on their activities, sites and sector, the legislation they need to consider can run to hundreds of pieces. Environmental responsibilities, health and safety, energy and operational risks all add to the picture. The challenge is knowing which requirements are relevant, what they mean in practice and how to keep a clear record of the response.
A well-maintained legal register gives that work a structure: relevant legislation, the business activities it relates to, compliance assessments and the actions that need attention. It helps teams work from a shared view as their business and its obligations change.
A long-standing platform. Three practical uses for AI.
Simplifi provides software for managing legal registers and compliance. Our work builds on the existing platform, bringing AI into three connected stages of the process: deciding what applies, helping users assess their response, and summarising the position for management.
AI development within a .NET compliance platform.
Simplifi’s platform uses .NET and SQL Server to manage specialist records. Our integration work brings AI into the established sequence of applicability questions, compliance assessments and management reporting, so the assistance has the context of the task the user is carrying out.
There are three distinct outputs to design for: a question card that helps establish relevance, assistance while a person considers compliance, and a summary of the recorded register. Treating each as a separate task helps keep the instructions and the review process focused.
Impact provides the bespoke AI development and software integration; Simplifi is the client’s legal-register product. The project concerns AI used within compliance workflows, with people responsible for reviewing applicability and assessment decisions.
1. Ask better questions about what applies.
We used AI to help build question cards that turn the applicability process into practical questions about the organisation. Users can work through their business activities, premises and operations, using their answers to help decide which UK legislation belongs in their legal register.
That gives people a more approachable starting point than working through a long list of unfamiliar legislation. The question cards help connect legal requirements to the work the business actually does, with the applicability decisions reviewed by the people responsible.
2. Help people work through compliance.
Identifying legislation is the beginning. Teams then need to assess whether their arrangements meet the relevant requirements and decide what to do next. We added AI assistance at this stage to help users understand the requirement, explore a practical approach and consider how they could achieve compliance.
The aim is to make a difficult assessment easier to work through: explaining the issue, suggesting useful next steps and helping users think about the evidence or actions they may need. People remain responsible for checking the source requirements, reviewing the advice and recording an assessment that reflects their actual circumstances.
3. Turn the register into an executive summary.
A detailed register can hold a great deal of information across legislation, compliance assessments and actions. We used AI again to draw that information into an executive summary, giving management a clearer overview of the recorded position and the matters that need attention.
This helps connect day-to-day compliance work with management conversations: what is covered, where the records indicate gaps or uncertainty, and which priorities need review. The summary provides a starting point for decisions, with the underlying legal register available for the detail.
AI that supports a working process.
The value comes from using AI at the points where people need help: making applicability questions clearer, supporting a compliance assessment and bringing a large body of information into focus. Each stage serves a specific task within the existing system.
AI assistance supports informed review; it does not certify compliance or replace appropriate legal and technical expertise. Applicability depends on the organisation’s circumstances and the relevant jurisdiction. Teams still need to check current requirements and keep their register, evidence and assessments up to date.
Make your specialist knowledge easier to use.
Other applications of this approach include AI guest briefings integrated into hospitality software and Laravel CMS content automation. Each case study shows how we connect a specific AI-assisted task to an existing application.
Many businesses already hold the information their teams need, spread across documents, systems and specialist processes. We can help you identify where practical AI could turn that knowledge into clearer questions, useful guidance and better management information.
Talk to Impact about AI for your compliance or business workflows.
Background: Simplifi Solutions’ legal-register platform and GOV.UK guidance on understanding company obligations. Project capabilities described here are based on Impact’s work. The hero photograph is an AI-generated illustration, not a photograph of Simplifi staff or customers.