Frequently Asked Questions

Product Overview & Capabilities

What is AmplifAI and how does it support communication risk management?

AmplifAI is a suite of advanced AI agents embedded within Shield's Communication Risk Management platform. It is designed to help compliance teams detect misconduct, investigate risk, and act with confidence by automating surveillance, investigations, and review workflows. AmplifAI uses a multi-agent approach to expand coverage, reduce noise, accelerate decision-making, and strengthen governance across the compliance lifecycle. Note: AmplifAI is specifically tailored for regulated environments and may not be suitable for organizations outside of these sectors. Source

What are the main AI agents included in AmplifAI and what do they do?

AmplifAI includes several specialized AI agents:

Note: Detailed customization options for each agent may require consultation with Shield's team. Source

How does AmplifAI integrate with the Shield platform?

AmplifAI is natively embedded within the Shield platform, providing compliance teams with centralized access to communications, risk signals, and AI-powered insights. This integration ensures that all AI capabilities are applied consistently across surveillance, investigations, and review workflows, leveraging Shield's centralized data foundation. Note: AmplifAI is only available as part of the Shield platform and cannot be used as a standalone product. Source

Performance & Measurable Outcomes

What measurable outcomes does AmplifAI deliver for compliance teams?

AmplifAI delivers the following outcomes for compliance teams:

Note: These metrics are based on validated customer deployments; actual results may vary depending on organizational context. Source

How does AmplifAI help reduce alert fatigue and improve reviewer efficiency?

AmplifAI's Noise Reduction Agent applies contextual analysis to suppress low-value alerts, resulting in a 77.3% reduction in alert volume. This allows compliance reviewers to focus on genuine risks, reducing alert fatigue and improving overall efficiency. Note: The effectiveness of noise reduction may depend on the complexity of your communication environment. Source

Features & Technical Capabilities

Does AmplifAI support multilingual surveillance and rare languages?

Yes, AmplifAI's Language Expansion Agent proactively identifies risks across unmonitored and rare languages, ensuring that no communication falls outside your compliance perimeter. This feature is designed to close multilingual surveillance blind spots for global organizations. Note: For a full list of supported languages, contact Shield's team. Source

How does AmplifAI provide explainability and transparency for compliance decisions?

AmplifAI delivers explainable and transparent outcomes by providing clear reasoning for every recommendation, decision, and action. The Risk Reasoning Agent offers concise explanations for alerts, and every closure is supported by transparent reasoning, governance controls, and auditable outputs. Note: While AmplifAI is designed for audit-ready governance, organizations should validate outputs against their own compliance frameworks. Source

What governance and oversight controls are built into AmplifAI?

AmplifAI operates under human oversight, with AI reasoning grounded in policy, regulation, and risk frameworks. It features human-in-the-loop controls, configurable oversight, and robust governance to ensure accountability and policy alignment. All actions are auditable and transparent. Note: The level of oversight can be configured to match organizational requirements. Source

Security & Compliance

What security and compliance certifications does AmplifAI have?

AmplifAI, as part of the Shield platform, is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified. It is also GDPR-aligned and compliant with DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act). Data remains protected within your environment, ensuring security, privacy, and sovereignty. Note: Certification scope applies to the Shield platform as a whole, including AmplifAI. Source

How does AmplifAI ensure data privacy and security?

AmplifAI is built on a zero trust architecture with end-to-end encryption and segregated multi-tenant environments. Data remains in the customer's environment and is not transferred to third-party locations. The platform undergoes yearly SOC 2 Type II audits and independent penetration testing. Note: Customers are responsible for configuring access controls within their own environments. Source

Implementation & Support

How quickly can AmplifAI be implemented within an organization?

AmplifAI, as part of the Shield platform, can be implemented in as little as 3 weeks, even for large organizations. This rapid deployment is enabled by out-of-the-box connectors, pre-built models, and a security-by-design architecture. Note: Implementation timelines may vary based on the complexity of your environment and integration requirements. Source

What support and resources are available for AmplifAI users?

AmplifAI users have access to a dedicated Customer Success Manager, tailored training sessions, and a comprehensive knowledge base through the Shield Support portal. This includes technical documentation, FAQs, and troubleshooting resources to ensure effective adoption and ongoing support. Note: Some advanced support services may require additional agreements. Source

Use Cases & Customer Proof

Who can benefit from using AmplifAI?

AmplifAI is designed for compliance teams, IT teams, legal teams, supervisory managers, and Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) in financial institutions, energy trading companies, and other highly regulated industries. It is particularly beneficial for organizations facing challenges with high communication volumes, complex regulatory requirements, and the need for advanced risk detection. Note: Organizations outside of highly regulated sectors may not realize the full value of AmplifAI's capabilities. Source

What customer success stories or industry recognition has AmplifAI received?

AmplifAI has been validated by industry analysts and recognized in reports such as Gartner's 2025 Magic Quadrant for AI Extensibility, SynPulse's 2026 AI in Compliance research, the AI Fintech100 2026 list, and GreySpark's AI in Surveillance report. Customers have reported significant improvements in alert precision, alert volume reduction, and investigation speed. Note: Detailed customer case studies are available on Shield's website. Source

Pricing & Licensing

How is AmplifAI priced?

AmplifAI is included as part of the Shield platform, and pricing is tailored to each customer based on factors such as communication volume, required connectors, and monitored channels. Shield offers predictable pricing with no export or exit fees, operating on a customer-owned data model. Note: For a customized quote, contact Shield's team directly. Source

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Compliance risk is connected. Your AI should be too.

Compliance teams face growing communications volumes, increasingly nuanced risks, persistent alert fatigue, and constant pressure to do more with less—leaving valuable expertise tied up in noise instead of focused on genuine risk.

AmplifAI extends Shield’s end-to-end Communication Risk Management platform with a native layer of specialized AI agents across surveillance, investigations, and review workflows—helping you expand coverage, eradicate noise, accelerate decision-making, and strengthen governance.

Meet your agentic compliance team

AmplifAI delivers an industry-first approach to agentic AI, using an advanced multi-agent approach from detection to resolution.

Detect

Expand coverage, reduce noise, and surface the risks that matter most

Investigate

Turn complex communications into actionable insight

Act

Move from manual review to governed resolution with confidence

Noise Reduction Agent: Reduce alert fatigue without compromising coverage

Applies contextual analysis to identify low-value alerts and suppress unnecessary noise, helping reviewers focus on genuine risk.

Outcome: Outcome: Fewer alerts. Greater efficiency. Better focus.

Coverage Expansion Agent: Find risk traditional surveillance misses

Reviews communications beyond existing detections to uncover nuanced misconduct, behavioral patterns, and emerging risks that may otherwise remain hidden.

Outcome: Outcome: Broader coverage and stronger risk detection.

Language Expansion Agent: Close multilingual surveillance blind spots

Proactively identifies risk across unmonitored and rare languages, helping global organizations ensure no communication falls outside your compliance perimeter, regardless of how employees communicate.

Outcome: Outcome: Comprehensive multilingual compliance coverage.

Risk Reasoning Agent: Understand why an alert was generated

Provides clear, concise explanations for every alert, helping reviewers quickly understand risk context, accelerate investigations, and strengthen governance.

Outcome: Outcome: Faster decisions and greater confidence in every review.

Meet Shiela — Ask questions. Get answers.

Your agentic assistant for investigations. Use natural language in place of complex queries to search communications, explore cases, and surface relevant information.

Outcome: Outcome: Accelerated investigations and easier access to insights.

Alert Closure Agent: From alert review to governed action

Evaluates alerted communications across content, risk language, and context—and closes the alert where no risk is established. Every decision is supported by transparent reasoning, governance controls, and configurable oversight.

Outcome: Outcome: Scalable review processes with human confidence built in. 

AI Alert Closure

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It takes advanced technology to make communications compliance simple.

Improve compliance outcomes, not just efficiency

AmplifAI helps compliance teams uncover more risk, reduce reviewer burden, and strengthen governance across the compliance lifecycle, resulting in broader coverage, fewer false positives, and faster paths from risk detection to action.

91.7%

Alert Precision

Expand surveillance coverage and increase confidence in surfaced risk

77.3%

Alert Volume Reduction

Remove noise and free reviewers to focus on meaningful investigations

7x

Faster Time-to-Resolution

Accelerate investigations with AI reasoning and natural-language search

Minutes

Faster Informed Decisions

Eliminate delays with clear risk reasoning, enabling decisions in minutes not hours

100%

Audit-Ready Governance

Provide explainability, transparency, and documentation for regulator-ready compliance

Validated by

Gartner®

2025 Magic Quadrant™ — AI Extensibility

SynPulse

2026 AI in Compliance research

AI Fintech100

2026 list

GreySpark

AI in Surveillance report

Trusted AI for regulated environments

AmplifAI combines an integrated AI architecture with built-in governance, helping compliance teams achieve reliable, explainable, and measurable outcomes.

Embedded controls for governable outcomes

The results AmplifAI delivers don't come from a single prompt or model, but from a multi-layered AI system with embedded checks and balances, designed for trusted adoption at enterprise scale.

Advanced Prompt Engineering

Precision-crafted prompts ensure consistent, high-quality outputs across every compliance workflow.

Risk & Policy-Aware Reasoning

AI reasoning is grounded in compliance policy, regulatory context, and organizational risk frameworks.

Proprietary Compliance Expertise

Decades of compliance domain knowledge embedded directly into 
the AI architecture.

AI Validation & Self-Reflection

Built-in mechanisms review, critique, and validate AI outputs before they reach reviewers.

Continuous Evaluation & Monitoring

Ongoing performance monitoring ensures AmplifAI improves over time and adapts to evolving risks.

Built-in assurance for confident adoption

AmplifAI is built specifically for the demands of regulated industries, where trust, transparency, and accountability are non-negotiable.

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Fully Compliant

Operates under human oversight, with AI reasoning grounded in policy, regulation, and risk frameworks.

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Explainable and Transparent

Every recommendation, decision, and action is supported by clear reasoning, full visibility, and auditable outputs.

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Controlled and Governed

Human-in and over-the-loop controls, configurable oversight, and robust governance ensure accountability and policy alignment.

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Safe and Secure

SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001-certified, data stays protected in your environment, ensuring security, privacy, and sovereignty.

A native agentic layer across Shield’s platform

Seamlessly embedded within Shield’s platform, AmplifAI provides compliance teams with the breadth of context, depth of functionality, and centralized intelligence needed to make more informed decisions.

One Platform, One Source of Truth

One Platform, One Source of Truth

Access communications, risk signals, and AI-powered insights from a unified platform built on a centralized data foundation.

Intelligence Applied Where It Matters Most

Intelligence Applied Where It Matters Most

A multi-layered AI architecture applies the right technologies to the right compliance challenges, ensuring both accuracy and efficiency.

Built to Scale Securely

Built to Scale Securely

Designed for enterprise environments, AmplifAI supports scalable deployment and strict data governance, so your data remains within your environment.

Confidence Without Complexity

Confidence Without Complexity

Every capability is natively integrated into the Shield platform, enabling teams to adopt AI while maintaining consistency, control, and oversight.

Ready to AmplifAI your compliance program?

Whether you’re exploring your first AI use case or building a broader agentic strategy, adopt AI with confidence and at your own pace, backed by a proven framework for evaluation, deployment, and governance.

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Evaluate to your needs

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Deploy with confidence

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