Early access
From regulatory notification to business requirements document, automatically
BRD Automation
- 4 weeks to 3 days
- to a reviewable first-draft BRD
- 100%
- requirement-to-provision traceability from day one
- 31%
- fewer requirement defects found in UAT
The gap between "the notification requires this" and "engineering can build this" is where compliance programmes lose their quarters.
The problem
What this module exists to fix
Translation is slow and lossy
A business analyst reads the notification, interprets it, and writes requirements. The interpretation is rarely written down, so when a reviewer disagrees the debate restarts from the raw text.
Traceability is retrofitted
Requirement-to-obligation traceability matrices are usually built after delivery, for the auditor, from memory. They are the first thing an inspector pulls on and the weakest artefact in the pack.
Acceptance criteria are vague
"System must support enhanced KYC" is not testable. Vague criteria push interpretation risk into UAT, where it is most expensive to resolve.
Capabilities
What it does
End-to-end BRD generation
Select the obligations in scope and generate a full document: background, regulatory driver, scope and exclusions, assumptions, current state, target state, functional requirements, non-functional requirements, data requirements, reporting requirements, RACI, risks and dependencies.
Testable acceptance criteria
Every requirement is expressed with Given/When/Then acceptance criteria derived from the obligation trigger and threshold, so QA can test against the rule rather than the prose.
Built-in traceability matrix
Requirement to obligation to source provision, generated as a first-class artefact, live throughout delivery rather than assembled at the end.
Delivery tool sync
Push epics, features and stories to Jira or Azure DevOps with the traceability links preserved, and pull status back so compliance readiness reflects real delivery progress.
Reusable requirement patterns
Recurring compliance patterns — consent capture, retention, threshold reporting, licence renewal workflow — ship as parameterised requirement templates.
Interpretation log
Every judgement call made in translating a rule into a requirement is captured with rationale and approver, so it can be defended later.
How it works
Step by step
- 01
Scope
Choose the obligations, entities and systems the change covers.
- 02
Draft
The BRD is generated against your document standard, with gaps flagged where the platform lacks information rather than invented.
- 03
Refine
Business analysts edit collaboratively in the platform; every edit is versioned and attributed.
- 04
Approve
Routed through your sign-off path with electronic approval captured.
- 05
Deliver
Requirements sync to Jira or Azure DevOps; delivery status flows back into compliance readiness reporting.
Questions
The things people actually ask
Including the ones where the answer is a limitation.
- Will it invent requirements it cannot support?
- It is built not to. Where the platform lacks the information to state a requirement — an internal threshold, a system name, a business decision — it emits an explicit open question rather than a plausible guess. Open questions are tracked to closure.
- Can we use our own BRD template?
- Yes. Section structure, numbering, terminology and house style are configurable per organisation, and generated documents follow it.
- Does this replace our business analysts?
- No. It removes the blank page and the mechanical traceability work. Analysts spend their time on the interpretation and negotiation that actually needs judgement.
See BRD Automation against your own footprint
A two-week scoped pilot on your real entities and jurisdictions. You compare the output against what your team found in the same period.