Daniel Hartnett
- Teams face mounting risks, evolving regulations and shrinking resources – traditional due diligence processes can’t keep up
- Discover how API connections and structured JSON data embed risk insights directly into workflows, eliminating manual steps and reducing errors
Actionable, risk-relevant insights
Compliance teams today face a perfect storm: they must manage growing risk, meet evolving regulatory demands, and make faster decisions – all while resources are shrinking.
Traditional due diligence processes are no longer able to keep pace. Compliance professionals often need to log into separate systems to order and download PDF reports, then manually sift through pages of information to identify relevant risks, before keying data into internal systems. The result? Slower onboarding, and an increased risk of human error.
Compliance teams need a new approach with actionable, risk-relevant information delivered where they make decisions.
The power of API integration
When onboarding a new third party, API integration allows you to seamlessly order due diligence reports at the click of a button from within an existing workflow. No need to jump to yet another system.
For large compliance teams managing hundreds or even thousands of relationships, this efficiency compounds substantially. It saves time, lowers friction, and frees staff to focus on analysis rather than administration.
More than this, when reports are delivered in machine-readable JSON format, the benefits multiply.
JSON – intelligent automation
JSON [Java Script Object Notation] delivers clean, accurate data. It is the language that makes AI-driven compliance practical.
Structured JSON data is standardised and machine-readable, which means that a report’s data and analysis flow automatically into an existing compliance system. This removes the need for compliance teams to manually review PDF format data, extract relevant details, and key information into internal systems.
For organisations managing thousands of reports, this automation eliminates hours of repetitive work and frees resources for higher-value tasks, such as risk analysis and strategic planning.
For organisations exploring agentic AI in compliance workflows, JSON data delivers additional benefits. Agentic AI systems rely on structured, predictable data to reason and act autonomously. A JSON file delivers a clear, standardised format that AI agents can parse without ambiguity. Instead of struggling to interpret unstructured text from PDFs, AI agents can instantly interpret fields and trigger the right actions, such as escalating a high-risk supplier or updating a monitoring schedule.
Real-world help
When API connections and structured JSON data become part of compliance workflows, they can unlock immediate and tangible benefits, including:
- Speed and accuracy: Order and receive reports within existing internal workflows. This accelerates onboarding and minimises delays.
- Fewer errors: Eliminate manual data entry and the risk of input errors to improve data integrity.
- Scalability: Handle large volumes of third parties without adding manual burden. This can help compliance programs grow without the need for extra headcount.
- Enhanced confidence: Make informed decisions based on timely, structured insights, rather than static documents. This reduces uncertainty and lowers your company’s risk exposure.
A case in point:
Streamlining compliance for an international pharmaceutical company
We recently worked with the compliance team of an international pharmaceutical company onboarding hundreds of third-party partners across multiple regions. For each third party, compliance officers had to log into a separate system, download lengthy reports, and manually enter key details into their internal risk system. This slowed onboarding and introduced errors.
By integrating an API into their compliance platform, we empowered the team to order due diligence reports directly within their existing workflows. The reports were automatically delivered into their system in structured JSON format, allowing data to flow seamlessly into their risk management tools without manual transcription. In addition, we integrated other APIs for screening and ongoing monitoring, creating a unified compliance ecosystem that reduced friction across multiple processes.
The result was streamlined, proactive compliance, quicker onboarding and fewer errors. With reports and risk insights appearing directly in their workflows, our client’s compliance officers are now able to focus on analysis and strategic risk management, rather than administrative tasks.
Efficiency: the new strategic advantage
Streamlined API connections and structured JSON data are more than nice-to-have technical tools. They have become the enablers of smarter compliance.
Removing manual processes and embedding risk insights directly into your compliance workflows frees overburdened and under-resourced compliance teams to focus on the areas that matter most: judgement and informed decision-making. And this shift is transformational. It changes compliance from a reactive, tick-box exercise to a proactive strategy, in which you can make confident decisions and turn efficiency into a new strategic advantage.
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