It's a search problem, not a reading problem
A question about whether a requirement applies turns on a specific article, clause, or line. The traditional workflow opens the regulation at page one and reads until someone finds the relevant part.
A human scanning hundreds of pages is slow, error-prone, and hard to scale. Automate retrieval so the expert can judge whether the passage applies.
The haystack keeps getting bigger
The EU AI Act has 113 articles and 180 recitals. The GDPR has 99 articles and 173 recitals. An organization may also need to track NIS2, DORA, CSRD, the EU Data Act, national implementations, standards, and contracts.
These texts contain definitions, exceptions, annexes, and cross-references. Re-reading each document from the beginning for every question uses expert time on retrieval.
Retrieval consumes the time
Reading the relevant paragraph takes a minute. Finding it and checking for a related clause elsewhere can take hours.
The search also repeats. Another person searches the same regulation for the next question without knowing the work was already done. Across a team and a year, experts spend substantial time locating passages instead of reasoning about them.
Show the passages behind the answer
A useful output includes the answer, cited passages, related clauses, coverage caveats, and unresolved questions.
AI can handle first-pass retrieval and assembly. The expert checks whether the passages support the conclusion, whether relevant exceptions or cross-references are missing, and what to do next.
AI finds and cites. The human judges.
AI can run first-pass retrieval across the source set, return candidate passages, and attach citations for review.
A person still decides whether the passages apply to the product, arrangement, and facts at issue. For high-stakes questions, that review may require qualified counsel.
How Sorena runs the search
Ask the Sorena Research Copilot a regulatory question in plain language. It locates relevant passages across the documents you care about and returns them with citations. You read the relevant paragraph, check the source, and make the call.
For questions grounded in uploaded material, the Sorena AI Assistant retrieves and cites your internal knowledge. In both cases, the system handles retrieval and shows its work while the human makes the judgment.
What this does not do for you
Finding a passage does not decide the case. The Copilot can surface articles that may govern the question, but applicability, interpretation, and risk trade-offs require a qualified person and may require counsel.
Treat the output as research support. Check the cited text, related definitions, exceptions, amendments, and other provisions before relying on the answer.
Read the page that matters. Skip the rest.
Search the full source set, inspect the cited passages, and check the related definitions, exceptions, and cross-references. Use AI to reduce manual retrieval while keeping interpretation and accountability with the reviewer.
Frequently asked questions
How is this different from keyword search or Ctrl+F?+
Keyword search finds strings, not answers, and it misses relevant passages that use different wording or live in a cross-referenced clause elsewhere. The Research Copilot works over the meaning of your question, retrieves the passages that actually bear on it across long documents, and returns them with citations so you can verify each one. You get the relevant paragraph and its source, not a list of every place a word appears.
Can I trust it to find everything relevant?+
Treat it as accelerated research, not a guarantee of completeness. It dramatically cuts the time spent hunting and shows you the passages it relied on so you can verify them, but a qualified human should confirm applicability and check for related provisions on high-stakes questions. The system does the finding and cites its work; the human still owns the judgment.
Does finding the passage mean I have a compliance answer?+
No. Locating the governing passage is a starting point, not a ruling, and it is not legal advice. Applicability, interpretation, and risk trade-offs require a qualified human and often qualified counsel. The Copilot removes the hours spent searching so your experts can spend their time on the judgment that actually needs them.
Sources
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (EU AI Act)https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj?ref=sorena.io
- Regulatory framework for AI (European Commission, Shaping Europe's digital future)https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai?ref=sorena.io
- Regulation (EU) 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulationhttps://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj?ref=sorena.io


