Question 1

What is AuditGuard AI?

Accepted Answer

AuditGuard AI is an AI-powered compliance audit platform that reads actual contracts and policies and checks them against 1,073 regulation articles across 11 frameworks: HIPAA, GDPR, EU AI Act, UAE PDPL, CCPA/CPRA, Saudi PDPL, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS v4.0.1, NIST CSF 2.0, and IFRS. A 4-agent AI verification pipeline extracts clauses, detects violations with exact article citations (e.g., GDPR Art. 83(2), HIPAA § 164.312(e)), generates corrected replacement text, and cross-verifies findings to reduce false positives.

Question 2

How does AuditGuard AI work?

Accepted Answer

Upload your contracts, policies, DPAs, BAAs, or AI-vendor agreements and select which of the 11 frameworks to audit against. Four specialized AI agents work in sequence: (1) the Clause Extractor parses your documents, (2) the Compliance Validator matches clauses against regulations and identifies violations with exact article citations, (3) the Remediation Generator creates corrected replacement text, and (4) the Critic Verifier cross-checks every finding for accuracy. Results are delivered in minutes with a downloadable PDF audit report ready to share with a regulator or auditor.

Question 3

What regulatory frameworks does AuditGuard AI support?

Accepted Answer

AuditGuard AI supports 11 frameworks covering 1,073 regulation articles: (1) HIPAA — 137 articles covering 45 CFR Parts 160, 162, 164 including 2026 inflation-adjusted penalty tiers; (2) GDPR — 143 articles covering all 99 Articles of Regulation 2016/679 plus EDPB fine-calculation guidance; (3) EU AI Act — 175 articles covering Regulation 2024/1689 including Article 99 three-tier penalties; (4) UAE PDPL — 33 articles including DIFC and ADGM regimes; (5) CCPA/CPRA — 88 articles including 2026 CPPA ADMT and Risk Assessment regulations; (6) Saudi PDPL — 49 articles covering M/19 as amended by M/148; (7) ISO 27001:2022 — 116 entries including all 93 Annex A controls plus Amendment 1:2024 climate change; (8) SOC 2 — 61 Trust Services Criteria (TSC 2017, revised 2022); (9) PCI DSS v4.0.1 — 119 requirements including 34 future-dated requirements mandatory since 31 March 2025 plus Appendices A1/A2/A3; (10) NIST CSF 2.0 — 106 Subcategories across 6 Functions; (11) IFRS — 46 standards including IFRS 18 (2027), IFRS 19 (2027), IFRS S1/S2, IFRS 9/7 (2026), and IAS 21 (2025) amendments. You can scan against one framework or all 11 simultaneously.

Question 4

How is AuditGuard AI different from Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe?

Accepted Answer

Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, and similar platforms monitor infrastructure evidence (servers, access controls, security questionnaires) at $7,000–$100,000 per year. They do not read your contracts or cite specific regulation articles. AuditGuard AI reads the actual text of contracts and policies and cites the exact regulation article for each violation — a fundamentally different job. Many customers use both: Vanta for continuous infrastructure monitoring and AuditGuard for clause-level contract and policy audits. AuditGuard starts at $99/month versus $583/month equivalent for Vanta's annual minimum.

Question 5

Can't I just use ChatGPT or Claude for compliance audits?

Accepted Answer

General-purpose LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude can read text, but they cannot produce an auditor-ready PDF report with citations, do not maintain a verified database of regulation articles, do not redact personally identifiable information before analysis, and often hallucinate regulation citations. AuditGuard AI maintains 1,073 verified regulation articles, uses a 4-agent verification pipeline with a dedicated critic agent to reduce hallucinations, redacts PII on HARD-FAIL before AI processing, and generates regulator-ready PDFs with exact article citations. An auditor will not accept a ChatGPT screenshot as evidence of compliance.

Question 6

How is AuditGuard AI different from manual compliance auditing?

Accepted Answer

A manual compliance audit by an outside lawyer typically costs $500/hour and takes 4–8 hours per document, totaling $2,000–$4,000 per audit and days of turnaround. AuditGuard AI delivers the same clause-level regulation-article-cited analysis in minutes for as low as $5.98 per audit on the Growth plan. The platform reads your actual contracts (not a generic checklist), cites the exact regulation article for every violation (for example, GDPR Art. 6(1)(a), HIPAA § 164.312(e), PCI DSS Req 3.5.1.1), and writes ready-to-use corrected replacement text. A 4-agent AI pipeline cross-verifies every finding before delivery.

Question 7

How much does AuditGuard AI cost?

Accepted Answer

AuditGuard AI offers four subscription plans with a 14-day free trial (no credit card required) and a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first paid period. Starter is $99/month ($990/year annual) for 10 audits. Growth is $299/month ($2,990/year) for 50 audits and 3 team seats — the most popular plan. Scale is $799/month ($7,990/year) for unlimited audits and unlimited team seats, plus API access. Enterprise plans are custom. For one-off compliance audits, AuditGuard also offers a Done-For-You service at $1,497 one-time for up to 10 documents with 7-day turnaround. A free one-page regulatory gap report is also available by emailing your policy to info@auditguard.org — no signup required.

Question 8

Does AuditGuard AI generate remediation suggestions?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AuditGuard does not just flag violations — it generates ready-to-use corrected contract language for each finding. The Remediation Generator agent drafts replacement text with a rationale explaining why the original text violates the regulation and how the suggested text resolves the compliance issue. Customers report this saves hours per document compared to writing remediations from scratch.

Question 9

Is my data secure with AuditGuard AI?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AuditGuard encrypts sensitive data at rest using AES-256-GCM and in transit using TLS 1.2+. Every database query is scoped by user ID at the ORM level, providing database-level tenant isolation. PII is detected and redacted using 10+ patterns (SSN, DOB, MRN, IBAN, passport, phone, credit card, IP, email) before any AI processing — and on a HARD FAIL basis: if redaction errors, the audit is marked failed and results are never saved. AuditGuard commits to 72-hour breach notification as required by GDPR Articles 33–34. Customer documents are never used to train AI models.

Question 10

What is the 4-agent AI verification pipeline?

Accepted Answer

AuditGuard uses four specialized AI agents running in sequence: (1) the Clause Extractor parses documents and isolates regulation-relevant clauses with recursive splitting and legal-identifier preservation; (2) the Compliance Validator retrieves relevant regulations via TF-IDF and Pinecone semantic search and identifies violations with exact citations; (3) the Remediation Generator drafts corrected contract language with rationale; (4) the Critic Verifier cross-checks every finding using UUID-based lookup and filters by confidence threshold. Guardrails include input sanitization, output validation, hallucination detection with word-overlap analysis, regulation verification against the database, and PII redaction. This multi-agent approach significantly reduces false positives compared to single-pass LLM analysis.

Question 11

Can I get a free audit before signing up?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Email your privacy policy, DPA, or BAA to info@auditguard.org with a note about which regulations matter most to your business (for example, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2). AuditGuard returns a one-page regulatory gap report within 24 hours — no signup or credit card required. This is intended for compliance officers and CTOs evaluating whether the platform fits their needs.

Question 12

Can AuditGuard AI audit for HIPAA compliance?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AuditGuard's HIPAA database contains 137 articles covering 45 CFR Parts 160, 162, and 164 — including the Privacy Rule (§ 164.500–.534), Security Rule (§ 164.302–.318), Breach Notification Rule (§ 164.400–.414), Enforcement Rule (§§ 160.402–.414), § 164.509 Reproductive Health Attestation from the 2024 final rule, and Part 162 Administrative Requirements. Penalties reflect the 2026 inflation-adjusted Civil Monetary Penalty tiers per 45 CFR § 102.3 (Federal Register Doc. 2026-01688): Tier 3 minimum $14,602 per violation, annual cap $2,190,294. Every violation is cited with the exact HIPAA section.

Question 13

Can AuditGuard AI audit for GDPR compliance?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AuditGuard's GDPR database contains 143 articles covering all 99 Articles of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, plus Article 83(2) aggravating and mitigating factors — the most-cited provision in European data protection authority fining decisions — and sub-articles 13(2)–(3), 28(2), 33(2)–(5), 34(2)–(4), 35(7), and 83(6)–(9). Violations are cited by exact article reference such as Art. 5 (Principles), Art. 6 (Lawfulness), Art. 13–14 (Transparency), Art. 17 (Right to Erasure), Art. 25 (Data Protection by Design), Art. 32 (Security), and Art. 83 (Administrative Fines). The database also includes EU Data Act interplay, EDPB Guidelines 04/2022 on fine calculation, and EDPB Opinion 28/2024 on AI models.

Question 14

Can AuditGuard AI audit for EU AI Act compliance?

Accepted Answer

Yes. AuditGuard's EU AI Act database contains 175 articles covering the final text of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 — including prohibited practices (Article 5 with biometric exceptions at 5(2)–(7)), high-risk AI requirements (Articles 6–49), transparency (Article 50), general-purpose AI (Articles 51–56), governance (Articles 64–70), and penalties (Articles 99–101). Article 99 penalty tiers are correctly classified: up to €35M or 7% of global turnover for prohibited AI (Art. 99(3)), up to €15M or 3% for other high-risk violations (Art. 99(4)), up to €7.5M or 1% for incorrect information to authorities (Art. 99(5)), with the SME rule at Art. 99(6) applying the LOWER of the percentage or fixed amount. Application dates are reflected accurately: 2 Feb 2025 prohibitions, 2 Aug 2025 GPAI and penalties, 2 Aug 2026 general provisions, 2 Aug 2027 Annex I high-risk.

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