State Audit Oversight Agency
700+ annual audits, <2% false neg. target.
- Sector
- Government & Public Sector Oversight
- Region
- United States
- Engagement
- Deterministic AI review
- Timeframe
- Ongoing
- Systems
- 6 unified
- Status
- Anonymized for security
The situation
The agency reviews roughly 700 independent public audits per year. Every review was 100% manual, consuming 4 to 24 hours per audit due to non-standardized layouts, siloed data systems, and manual balance sheet math checks. Previous commercial AI tools failed with high false positive rates in budget schedules.
What we built
In an 8-week compressed build under a strict fiscal-year deadline, we built 'Reviewer Zero'. We established a 3-layer architecture: Layer A (deterministic bytes classification & financial facts ledger), Layer B (reasoning agent for compliance guidelines), and Layer C (faithfulness gates & 7-year audit retention locks).
Stack shipped
What changed
Both contracted deliverables were formally accepted, leading to a follow-on engagement. Reduced review prep time from hours to minutes, enforced deterministic math (zero model-generated numbers), and delivered 153 infrastructure-as-code resources in the client's government cloud tenancy.
“Sitting in and listening to the auditors directly gave us the client's actual north star, not our interpretation of it.”
Your turn
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