We compared a newly revised information security management policy against higher-level basic policies, work rules, and APPI requirements, then had AI identify conflicting clauses with evidence.
"We revised the policy, but are we sure it aligns with higher-level policies and laws?" Many compliance teams share this concern, so we used INDX Compliance to solve it in practice. This article walks through the real product screens.
An information systems department at one company revised its Information Security Management Policy to v2.1. It was an ordinary update to reflect remote work and cloud usage, but Legal and Compliance stopped it before enforcement.
The reason was that no one had confirmed whether it conflicted with the higher-level Information Management Policy, work rules, or APPI. Internal policies do not stand alone; they always sit within higher-level policies and laws. Changing one clause can easily break consistency with another policy.
Challenges encountered
First, we did not configure anything difficult."Check whether this policy conflicts with higher-level policies or laws."We entered that in the same language someone would use with a manager. The AI then automatically assembled the procedure, or review viewpoints, to check.
Your instruction, in plain language
"Check whether the revised Information Security Management Policy v2.1 conflicts with the higher-level Information Management Policy, work rules, or APPI. Review each clause with supporting evidence."
01Search relevant internal policies and laws
Ingest the information-management policy, work rules, APPI, and ISO 27001
02Evaluate conformity clause by clause
Judge whether each clause in this policy satisfies higher-level policy and legal requirements
03Verify citation validity and confidence
Confirm that cited clauses exist and score reliability
04Final human review
Route only needs-review and non-compliant items to reviewers and record approvals or returns
No programming knowledge or complex rule setup is required. You can inspect and edit the generated workflow, then reuse the same review viewpoints as often as needed.
After saving and running the workflow, the AI checks whether each policy clause satisfies higher-level policy and legal requirements one by one. The results are consolidated on this screen. The key point is thatevery decision always includes which policy and which clause support it. The AI is not taken on trust; humans can verify the source text.
Compared against Information Management Policy / work rules / APPI / ISO 27001
Internal Policy Conformity Check
Run on 2026-05-20 | 10 review points
6
Pass
3
Needs review
1
Non-compliant
Article 8 states that when resignation or transfer is announced, the person's access privilegesmust be revoked by the end of the announcement date. The department manager is responsible for revocation.
The higher-level policy requires revocation on the same day. Policy v2.1 does not define timing or responsibility, creating a potential conflict.
This time, the AI found "the access privilege revocation deadline was not written in this policy". This was one non-compliant item: the higher-level policy requires revocation by the end of the announcement date, but the revised policy omitted it. It is a typical gap that manual review can miss.
The 6 items the AI marked as pass can be cleared quickly because evidence is attached. Humans spend judgment ononly the 4 items that need attention: 3 needs-review and 1 non-compliant item. The reviewer returned the non-compliant clause to the drafting department, reran the amended policy, and finally approved and finalized it.
Final review (human approval)
The higher-level policy requires revocation by the end of the same day. Because this policy does not define a revocation deadline, return it to the drafting department.
Humans review only the 4 needs-review and non-compliant items.The 6 passed items can be cleared with evidence, so reviewers can focus on judgment.
Tamper-resistant audit log
Assessed 10 review points (6 pass / 3 needs review / 1 non-compliant)
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Returned access privilege revocation for an added clause
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Added the revocation deadline to Article 9 and reran -> pass
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Approved and finalized all items
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All operations and decisions are recorded in a tamper-resistant audit logYou can fully trace who decided what, when, and based on which evidence, so it can be used directly in internal audits and external reviews.
A consistency check that had taken two full weeks manually was completed from viewpoint preparation to final approval inhalf a day. Most importantly, it caught a missing revocation deadline before enforcement that manual review had missed, which gave the reviewer the most reassurance.
From setup to approval
Source text is immediately checkable
6 passed items cleared quickly
Key points from this case
This example used an internal policy, but INDX Compliance works the same way across use cases. Provide the benchmark documents, such as higher-level policies, laws, and internal standards, together with the document you want checked, then compare them with evidence. Contract reviews, application-deficiency checks, ISO audit preparation, and any other work that involves matching against rules can use the same workflow.
Bring a policy, contract, or application document, and we will demo the actual judgment screen. Closed-network and on-premise deployments are supported.
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