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The factors regulators weigh, applied to your facts.

Regulators and courts don't decide on a whim. They weigh published factors: the organizational culpability factors in the US Sentencing Guidelines, and each agency's own penalty factors. Enforcement factor analysis sets your facts against those factors, one by one, each cited to the rule it comes from.

The problem it removes

"How bad is this?" answered by instinct

  • When a serious gap turns up, the question of how a regulator would view it gets answered by whoever has the most experience in the room.
  • The factors that shape that view, such as self-reporting, cooperation, remediation and the program you had in place, are written down, but rarely applied to your facts in one place.
  • Your board wants the reasoning, not a feeling.

What you see

Each factor, your facts, the rule

A table of the factors that apply, how your facts bear on each one, and the rule each factor is cited to. Where a fact isn't established, the factor says so.

Factor analysis · late SAR filings, 2025 to 2026Sample data
FactorYour factsBearingRule
Effective compliance program in placeProgram documented; monitoring thresholds never tunedMixedUSSG §8B2.1
Self-reportingGap found by internal testing; not yet reportedOpenUSSG §8C2.5(g)
RemediationIssue accepted, fix in progress, due 2026-10-31FavourableUSSG §8B2.1(b)(7)
Duration of the conductNot yet establishedUnknownn/a

Illustrative example with invented facts. It's a structured reading of published factors, not a forecast of any outcome.

How it works

Select, apply, draft, sign

  1. Select. Rules pick the factors that apply to your kind of institution and the agency involved, each tied to its source.
  2. Apply. Your facts, drawn from your issues and test results, are set against each factor. A factor with no facts behind it's marked unknown.
  3. Draft. AI drafts the written explanation. It doesn't decide how a factor bears on your facts.
  4. Review and sign. A practitioner reviews each factor, makes the judgment calls, and signs the analysis.

Guardrails

What it will never do

  • It doesn't tell you what a regulator or a court will do, or what a fine would be. It's a structured read of the factors they weigh.
  • It doesn't guarantee any outcome.
  • It isn't legal advice to you. If you need counsel, it gives your counsel an organized starting point.

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What this is, and how anyone does it

Reference articles from our library, cited to the published rules and standards. No sales copy.

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