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Spot — Proactive Compliance & Communications Surveillance

Proactive Compliance
That Gets Ahead of Risk

Spot is built for regulated organisations.

It continuously monitors email and collaboration data using policy-driven rules and natural language analysis to detect potential compliance risks early, reduce false positives, and produce defensible audit evidence.

Spot is deployed inside the customer's Azure environment, ensuring data never leaves their control.

The compliance nightmare you know too well

Manual compliance monitoring is increasingly ineffective in high-volume environments, based on industry surveys and regulatory enforcement summaries.

3 weeks

Average quarterly review time

73%

Violations discovered too late

$2.8M

Average regulatory fine in 2024

Manual Reviews Are Killing You

Analysts spending weeks reviewing thousands of communications manually. By the time you find violations, the damage is done.

Inconsistent Policy Application

Different analysts applying policies differently. What gets flagged depends on who's reviewing and how tired they are.

Reporting Nightmares

Spreadsheet hell when regulators come knocking. No audit trail, no defensible process, just panic.

"We were spending more time documenting our compliance failures than actually preventing them." — Chief Compliance Officer, Fortune 500 Financial Firm

Set Clear Expectations. Enforce Them Intelligently.

Compliance policies are only useful if they reflect the real-world risks your team faces. With Simply Discover, you can translate rules like FINRA 3110 or FCA SYSC 10A into practical, flexible policy sets that actually work.

How Spot Works

Spot supports both historical and ongoing communications, enabling continuous supervision as well as retrospective review.

  1. Ingest communications from email and collaboration platforms, including Microsoft 365 and archived data.
  2. Apply policy-driven rules combining keywords, exclusions, and natural language analysis.
  3. Surface potential compliance risks with clear evidence and contextual rationale.
  4. Enable reviewers to classify messages as Compliant, Non-Compliant, or Requiring Review.
  5. Track reviewer actions, outcomes, and trends with a full, exportable audit trail.

Seed Policies with Keywords

Add keywords and phrases known to indicate risk, with exclusions to reduce noise

Write Rules in Plain English

Create rules naturally with optional violation examples for added clarity

Layer Multiple Rules

Match how real-world breaches show up in conversation with flexible policy sets

Review, Classify, and Act — All in One Place

No more scattered alerts. Spot brings everything together in a single, streamlined view.

Surface Potential Issues

Use natural language analysis to detect contextual, implied, or veiled compliance risks that keyword-only systems commonly miss, with explainable evidence for every flag.

Classify Messages Quickly

Quickly classify each message as Compliant, Non-Compliant, or Flagged for Review

Speed Up Workflows

Speed up workflows with hotkey navigation and efficient screen design

Transparent Evidence

See why something was flagged — with transparent rationale and evidence surfaced for each result

Built for These Use Cases — and More

Spot — Proactive Compliance & Communications Surveillance is designed for regulated organisations that need continuous, explainable supervision of employee and client communications, including:

Financial services and broker-dealers

Firms operating under FCA, FINRA, or similar regulatory regimes

Compliance and surveillance teams managing high-volume email or collaboration data

Organisations that require communications data to remain inside their own Azure tenant

Supervise Broker-Dealer Comms

Meet FINRA Rule 3110 obligations with targeted, ongoing review of broker-dealer communications. Detect potential violations early and show evidence of active oversight.

Detect Insider Risk & MNPI Exposure

Surface early indicators of insider trading and mishandled material non-public information (MNPI). Go beyond keywords to find veiled intent and subtle signals of risk.

Monitor Financial Promotions

Identify unbalanced risk/reward claims and misleading promotional language before they're published — or spread. Tailor policies to reflect your own standards or FCA expectations.

Reduce False Positives at Scale

Cut through the noise in high-volume environments. Fine-tune exclusions and natural language rules to reduce alert fatigue and focus attention where it matters most.

Stay Audit-Ready Without the Spreadsheets

Supervision needs to be visible, consistent, and explainable — especially when regulators come knocking.

View Compliance Performance

View compliance performance by policy, rule, or mailbox with comprehensive tracking

Track Over Time

Track message volumes, violation rates, and reviewer actions over time

Export Reports in Minutes

Export reports in minutes — no manual collation needed. Everything's traceable and backed by rationale.

Why choose Simply Discover?

Built for regulated industries and complex environments, it helps compliance, surveillance, and supervisory teams uncover potential breaches in real time — even when the language is subtle, implied, or off-script.

Detect what others miss

Understand not just what's meant, not just said

Maintain control

Host everything within your Azure tenant, data doesn't leave your domain

Built for efficiency & accuracy

Optimised UI with hotkey navigation to keep reviewers moving with clearly marked up evidence and rationale

Works alongside eDiscovery

Combine reactive investigations and proactive review in one place

"It's built for teams who need to move fast without cutting corners." — Simply Discover

Who Spot Is Best Suited For

Spot is best suited to regulated organisations that need continuous, defensible supervision of communications, where context, auditability, and data residency are critical.

Organisations looking for simple, SaaS-based keyword scanning without regulatory reporting or audit obligations may find lighter tools sufficient.

Don't Wait for a Violation to Unfold

Spot helps you move from reactive to ready, detecting and managing communication risk as it happens, not weeks later. Use it alongside Simply Discover's eDiscovery engine to bring investigation, supervision, and governance under one roof.

30-day pilot program available. If you don't see dramatic improvement in your compliance workflow, we'll part as friends.
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