Risk-and-Compliance-Approved AI Workbench for Regulated Industries Trapped on Microsoft Copilot
Practitioners at banks, law firms, and healthcare orgs are mandated onto Microsoft Copilot and find it materially weaker than Claude/ChatGPT for non-document-search work. Going through procurement to get a frontier model approved is a 6-12 month effort. The opportunity is a deployable middleware that's already been through SOC 2 / HIPAA / FFIEC review, ships with model-agnostic BYOK, and gets stamped 'approved' in days, not quarters.
The product is paperwork as much as software. Pre-bake the compliance dossier (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, model-card pack, DPIA template) so a finance MD can hand it to risk and get yes in two weeks. Sell to user not to IT — the pain owner is the analyst, not the CISO.
landscape (3 existing solutions)
The choice today is 'use Copilot' or 'spend a year doing TPRM on a frontier vendor.' Nobody sells the middle: a thin wrapper that proxies to your already-approved Azure OpenAI / Bedrock contract but presents a Claude/GPT-class UX with audit logs and DLP.