About Egret
Compliance Answers You Can Actually Defend
General-purpose AI tools sound confident while citing regulations that don't exist. Egret is different. We maintain a curated library of verified regulatory frameworks and return answers with exact citations — document names, section numbers, and source excerpts you can verify yourself.
Our Mission
Make Regulatory Knowledge Accessible and Trustworthy
Compliance teams spend thousands of hours every year searching through dense regulatory documents. Existing tools either return keyword matches without context, or generate unreliable answers without citations. Egret sits in the middle — we retrieve the most relevant passages from authoritative sources and generate answers that cite every claim. If we can't find a source, we say so.
The Problem
ChatGPT Doesn't Know Your Regulations
General-purpose AI is trained on the open internet. It can sound authoritative while fabricating regulatory citations that don't exist. For compliance teams in regulated industries, that's not a minor inconvenience — it's a liability.
- AI-generated answers with no verifiable source trail
- Hours lost manually cross-referencing dense regulatory documents
- Internal policies siloed from public regulatory guidance
- No confidence scoring to know when an answer is reliable
Our Approach
Egret Does
Egret maintains a curated library of verified regulatory frameworks, updated continuously by compliance experts. When you ask a question, we search this library alongside your organization's own policies and return answers with exact citations you can verify yourself.
- Every answer cites specific documents, section numbers, and source excerpts
- Dual retrieval across public regulatory frameworks and your private policies
- Confidence scores and relevance percentages per source
- Model-agnostic — as AI improves, your answers improve automatically
Expanding Across Resilience & Risk Domains
Every domain is backed by curated, jurisdiction-specific regulatory frameworks — maintained by subject-matter experts and updated continuously.
Business Continuity
BC/DR planning, ISO 22301, NIST SP 800-34, FFIEC, and jurisdiction-specific regulations across the US, Singapore, and more.
LiveRisk Management
ISO 31000, COSO ERM, operational risk assessments, and enterprise risk framework guidance across jurisdictions.
Coming SoonCyber Resilience
NIST CSF, ISO 27001, cyber incident response planning, and information security compliance frameworks.
Coming SoonWhat We Believe
The principles that guide everything we build.
Trust Through Transparency
Every answer cites its source. If we can't ground a claim in an authoritative document, we say so — clearly.
Your Data Stays Yours
Your documents and conversations are encrypted, isolated per organization, and never used to train any AI model. Ever.
Domain Expertise Matters
We don't try to be everything. We curate, verify, and maintain domain-specific regulatory frameworks to the highest standard.
Model Agnostic
We route through AWS Bedrock so you always get the best available model. As AI improves, your answers improve — no action needed.
API-First Design
Every capability is available as a REST API. Embed compliance intelligence into your own systems, dashboards, or workflows.
Built for Teams
Organizations, role-based access, shared knowledge bases, and collaborative sessions — compliance is a team sport.
The Founder
Built by Someone Who Lived the Problem
Egret was built by Waheed Zarif — a PMP-certified Technical Program Executive with over a decade of experience deploying complex, regulated technology systems. His career spans biotech R&D (where rigorous documentation and regulatory traceability are non-negotiable) to VP-level program leadership delivering enterprise hardware/software platforms into high-stakes, compliance-sensitive environments.
That experience made the problem visceral: compliance teams in regulated industries spend enormous time manually searching dense regulatory documents — and when they turn to general AI tools, they get confident-sounding answers with no verifiable source trail. That's not a productivity problem. It's a liability.
Egret is Waheed's answer to that gap. He architected and built the full platform — from the AWS infrastructure and RAG pipeline to the citation engine and frontend — with the same rigor he applies to enterprise systems: strict data isolation, zero training exposure, and outputs you can defend in an audit. Not another AI wrapper. A tool built by an operator, for operators.
How It Works
Three Steps to Defensible Answers
Ask your compliance question in plain language. Egret searches curated regulatory frameworks and your organization's uploaded policies simultaneously, then returns a cited, verifiable answer.
Choose Your Regulatory Domain
Start with Business Continuity — Risk Management and Cyber Resilience coming soon. Each domain contains jurisdiction-specific frameworks maintained by experts.
Ask in Plain Language
Type your compliance question as you would ask a colleague. Egret searches both the official library and your organization's policies to find relevant guidance.
Review Cited Answers
Every response includes document references, section numbers, and source excerpts. Nothing is fabricated — if Egret can't find a source, it tells you.
Compliance Intelligence That Cites Its Sources
Built for regulated industries. Trusted by compliance teams.
Stop Guessing. Start Citing.
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