How to use Complied AI for compliance research: updates to act to ask

The four-step workflow

Most compliance research starts the same way: something changed, and you need to know what it was and whether it touches you. The workflow on Complied AI is built around that starting point and runs in four steps, each keeping the official source attached so the answer stays traceable.

1. Open the updates feed to see what changed.
2. Open the official document behind the update.
3. Jump to the Act or regulation section the change touches.
4. Ask a section-grounded question to confirm how it applies.

Step 1: start from the updates feed

The updates feed shows what changed across MCA, CBDT, CBIC and GST, RBI, and SEBI in one place. Filter to the source or type you care about, and scan for the item that prompted your research. Starting here means you are anchored to a real change rather than a half-remembered forward.

The feed is the front door, not the destination. Its job is to get you to the right official document quickly, which is the next step.

Step 2: open the official document

From the update, open the official document behind it: the MCA notification, the CBIC circular, the CBDT notification, whichever regulator issued it. This is where the number, the date, the class covered, and the scope are exact.

Reading the source document is what separates real research from acting on a headline. If a claimed change has no document to open, it is not ready to act on.

Step 3: jump to the Act section

A change means little until you see what it altered in the underlying law. From the document, move to the Act or regulation section it touches and read that section. A rate change points to a charging section; a form change points to a rule; a disclosure change points to a regulation.

Reading the section next to the update surfaces the effective date and the scope that a summary drops, and tells you whether the provision actually reaches your facts.

Step 4: ask a section-grounded question

With the section in front of you, ask a specific question about it. A section-grounded question gets an answer tied to that provision's text, which you can check against the section rather than trust on its own.

This is the step that turns reading into an answer. You are not asking a general question into the void; you are asking about the exact provision the change touched, with the source right there to verify against.

Three worked scenarios

The same four steps apply across regulators. Here is how they play out.

In each case the research ends at a specific answer grounded in a specific section, with the official document one step back. That is the point of the workflow: speed to the source, not away from it.

How to keep it verifiable

1. Confirm every update against its official document before acting.
2. Cross-check the source on the regulator's own site, such as MCA, CBIC, or the Income Tax Department.
3. Read the section text, not only the update headline.
4. Keep the effective date and scope in your own note against the change.

Where Complied AI fits

The whole workflow is the product. Complied AI puts the updates feed, the official document, the source law, and section-grounded Q&A on one path, so compliance research runs from what changed to the exact provision and a specific answer without ever leaving the source behind. Update, source, section, ask, in one place.