Artificial Intelligence

Agentic AI: What Is It and What Does It Do for Compliance?

April 24, 2025
By
Galina Korshunova

Working in compliance, you’ve seen the pressure firsthand: regulations are expanding, audits are getting stricter, and your team is balancing risk assessments, policy updates, and control changes—all at once. Traditional tools weren’t built for this level of complexity, and spreadsheets or static workflows simply can’t keep up. 

With the implementation of AI into regulatory compliance management solutions, there was a dramatic shift in capabilities, bringing automation to what was once highly manual work—extracting relevant obligations, mapping them to controls and policies, driving updates across the organization, and so on.

Then came Generative AI, like Reggi, further accelerating compliance operations. It enhances legal research, speeds up the drafting of policies and controls, and offers new ways to understand regulatory text in minutes instead of hours. And despite initial scepticism, more than 70% of compliance professionals are optimistic about its potential, with many organizations actively using it today.

Now, looking forward, the next logical step: what if your compliance system didn’t just expedite the process—what if it could help manage the entire cycle?

That’s where Agentic AI comes in. It’s a new class of intelligent assistants, already gaining ground in 2025, intended to automatically streamline compliance workflows while keeping you in control every step of the way.

Learn more by downloading the eBook here.


What Is Agentic AI?

Agentic AI isn’t just automation—it’s coordination, adaptation, and action.

Instead of waiting for human instruction, Agentic AI can understand context, make decisions within guardrails, and trigger appropriate workflows based on real-time regulatory input.

In compliance, this means:

  • Detecting new regulations across jurisdictions;

  • Assessing impact on your business;

  • Drafting required updates (e.g., policies, controls, procedures);

  • Notifying the right stakeholders;

  • Tracking completion—all with human-in-the-loop oversight.

In other words, it doesn’t just tell you what changed. It helps do something about it.

What Problem Does Agentic AI Solve?

The up-and-coming compliance solutions, powered by Agentic AI, are intended to eliminate the compliance lag—the delay between when a regulation is updated and when your internal processes reflect that change.

Once regulatory alerts are triaged, Agentic AI automatically extracts and translates new requirements into specific actions: It proposes changes to policies, maps updates to your internal controls, and initiates cross-functional workflows. This kind of intelligence is especially powerful for organizations working across multiple jurisdictions or regulatory bodies, where even small changes can trigger a cascade of downstream obligations.

By helping teams execute faster and more consistently, Agentic AI doesn't just improve efficiency. It reduces the risk of non-compliance, audit findings, and enforcement penalties. It gives compliance leaders the ability to track not just what changed, but what was done about it—and who did it.

What Makes It Different from Generative AI?

You’ve likely heard of Generative AI producing summaries, drafting reports, or interpreting laws—and that’s a big part of the future. But Agentic AI goes one step further.

Generative AI helps you understand what’s changing. Agentic AI helps you do something about it. Rather than waiting for human input, agentic AI actively engages with your compliance ecosystem. It connects to your regulatory feeds, internal frameworks, and workflows. It doesn’t just offer text—it initiates steps, routes tasks, and makes recommendations for review that can be acted on immediately. 

Think of it this way: Generative AI gives you a very smart assistant. Agentic AI gives you an intelligent colleague—one who’s proactive, process-aware, and purpose-built for regulatory work.

Real Use Cases

Agentic AI can be used to:

  • Track and triage global regulatory updates;

  • Auto-generate impact assessments for new rules;

  • Suggest new or updated controls after a policy change;

  • Create audit trails for internal approvals.

With regulators tightening expectations and timelines, the ability to adapt quickly and confidently is becoming a defining feature of resilient compliance teams.

Need More Details?

We just released a new eBook, breaking down the role of Generative + Agentic AI in compliance—from foundational concepts to real-world workflow examples.

You’ll learn:

  • How both Generative and Agentic AI are reshaping regulatory operations;

  • Where in the compliance management cycle they fit in;

  • What are their limitations;

  • Regulatory guidance around AI in the US and globally;

  • Best practices for incorporating AI-powered solutions into compliance programs;

  • And more!

Download the eBook here.

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