Legal & financial systems — the sector we were built in
AI in legal and financial systems
is already regulated.
Governed. Evidenced. Continuous.
The FCA, the PRA and the SRA have not written new AI rules — they are applying the ones you already answer to. This is the sector Sentinel and Citadel were born in: the complete inventory, the exposure priced in pounds, the evidence kept live.
Why this sector
Chosen by consequence, not by how attractive the market is.
Finance is a system humanity cannot afford to lose, and legal systems are how it holds together. We choose sectors by what breaks if it goes wrong and what compounds if it goes right — never by the size of the invoice. When AI inside a credit decision or a client matter goes wrong, the damage lands on people who never chose the exposure. That is the test, and it is why this sector came first.
Attractive markets and essential ones are not the same thing. We are here for the essential ones.
What we built here
Sentinel and Citadel were born in this sector.
The estate nobody procured
In a mid-market bank, lender, insurer or law firm the AI estate is rarely exotic and rarely small: credit decisioning, fraud and transaction monitoring, KYC and AML screening, complaints triage, document processing. Much of it is procured and switched on by product teams — and under SS1/23 a vendor model is still your model risk. Then there is the estate nobody procured at all: staff using generative tools on client information, in no system register. The gap between what a firm believes it runs and what it actually runs is the exposure, because every duty attaches equally to the systems it has not named.
Where the work lands
Find it, govern it, build it — one firm.
Sentinel — find it
The expert-led diagnostic that captures the entire AI landscape, including the parts you cannot see, as structured evidence — classified against the duties that apply, priced in pounds.
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Citadel — govern it
One living record: named owners, risk tiers, evidence, tests, value and board reporting. Risk and value on the same record, so the board conversation becomes accelerate or stop — not a worry list.
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Build it
Board and executive briefings, regulatory response support for FCA, PRA and ICO enquiries, and delivery of the automation — built under governance from day one, not retrofitted after.
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Inspected, not asserted
The review discipline behind every hand-back is something a client can inspect. In a supervised firm, that is part of the assurance.
See how we work
A record, not a reassurance — which systems are in use, on which matter, under which controls, verified how.
What we won’t claim
The boundaries, stated before you have to ask.
- We certify nothing — not your estate, and not ourselves. Sentinel classifies and evidences; it does not attest.
- We do not name clients in regulated financial services or legal practice. Anonymity is a feature of supervisory relationships, not a hedge; references are shared under NDA once an engagement is scoped.
- We will not answer a supervisor’s letter before we have seen the record it rests on.
- We will not pretend the FCA’s duties and the SRA’s are one. The exposure attaches to credit in one and confidentiality in the other, and the record must show the difference.
Bring us the question you can’t get answered.
Thirty minutes with a founder. Tell us what breaks in your sector if it goes wrong and we will tell you where the evidence has to come from — and whether we are the right people to gather it.
Price agreed before we start · Founder-led · NDA available