Optro, formerly AuditBoard, the leading AI-powered GRC platform, has announced the launch of a new offering that combines Optro's AI-powered RegComply solution with Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) advisory professional services to address regulatory change management. Available today, the joint offering enables organizations to identify, assess, and act on regulatory change faster, targeting one of the most resource-intensive challenges facing compliance and operations teams across industries.
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Manual Compliance Processes Are Failing to Keep Pace
Organizations across industries face oversight from multiple regulatory bodies and must navigate hundreds of regulatory changes each year. For most compliance and operations teams, the current approach to managing this volume relies heavily on manual processes: tracking changes across jurisdictions, determining applicability, and racing to implement updates before the next wave of regulation arrives.
This legacy model carries compounding costs. It increases operational overhead and processing times, diverts compliance teams from substantive issues that require human judgment, and introduces operational uncertainty that undermines confidence across the business. As the pace of regulatory change continues to accelerate, the gap between what manual compliance processes can handle and what organizations actually need to manage is widening.
Horizon Scanning and AI Automation at the Core
Optro's AI-powered Horizon Scanning forms the technological foundation of the new offering, automatically monitoring and prioritizing regulatory changes from more than 10,000 issuing bodies across 750 or more jurisdictions. By reducing regulatory noise by up to 97%, the system surfaces only the changes that are relevant to a given organization, allowing compliance teams to focus their attention where it matters rather than processing an undifferentiated volume of regulatory signals.
The combined offering is expected to automate approximately 75% of the traditional compliance workload, spanning real-time horizon scanning, gap analysis, and automated control generation. This allows organizations to bypass months of manual mapping and move directly to implementation with the speed that AI-driven prioritization enables.
"Regulatory change management consistently ranks as one of the most resource-intensive compliance challenges across our customer community," said Scott Whitlock, VP Global Alliances, Optro. "This new offering synthesizes Optro's AI capabilities and leverages the data and intelligence layers of EY.ai for Risk, working together at every layer of the regulatory change management process. With this integrated approach, customers can move away from manual processes and avoid the consequences of noncompliance."
EY US Brings Regulatory Knowledge Capital and Implementation Expertise
EY US contributes a distinct and complementary layer to the offering through its proprietary taxonomies, enriched regulatory obligations, managed services capability, compliance framework design, and operating model experience. This regulatory knowledge capital transforms raw regulatory requirements into actionable, organization-specific insights that compliance teams can act on immediately rather than spending weeks interpreting and mapping new obligations internally.
The offering covers the full regulatory change management lifecycle, from initial scoping through ongoing managed services, and draws on content from a leading provider of regulatory data alongside EY US' program design and implementation support services.
"Our clients tell us that the pace of regulatory change has outstripped their ability to manage it with traditional approaches," said Marc Heon, EY Global Regulatory Compliance Solution Leader. "This offering brings together our regulatory knowledge capital — including enriched obligations, managed services, compliance framework design, and operating model experience — with Optro's purpose-built technology platform that automates monitoring and prioritization at scale. Clients get a comprehensive offering from initial scoping through ongoing managed services, backed by the strength of both organizations."
A Combined Approach to End-to-End Regulatory Change Management
The structure of the Optro and EY US offering reflects a broader shift in how enterprises are approaching GRC, moving away from point solutions that address individual compliance tasks and toward integrated platforms that manage the end-to-end regulatory change process. By combining Optro's technology automation layer with EY US's advisory depth, the joint offering covers both the detection and prioritization of regulatory change and the implementation and operational transformation required to respond to it effectively.
For compliance leaders managing complex, multi-jurisdictional regulatory environments, the ability to condense months of manual mapping into an AI-accelerated workflow represents a material reduction in both cost and risk exposure.
The Optro and EY US joint offering arrives at a moment when the volume and velocity of regulatory change has made traditional compliance operating models structurally insufficient for many large organizations. By combining AI-driven monitoring and automation with expert advisory services across the full change management lifecycle, the offering addresses both the detection gap and the implementation gap that have historically made regulatory compliance a reactive, resource-heavy function. For enterprises looking to move from manual tracking to intelligent, always-on regulatory readiness, this launch represents a practical and immediately available path forward.
About Optro
Optro (formerly AuditBoard) helps enterprises transform risk into opportunity, redefining GRC through an agentic system of action. More than 50% of the Fortune 500 trust Optro to elevate audit, risk, and compliance in addressing a new era of risk. Optro is top-rated by customers on G2 and was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Tools, Assurance Leaders. To learn more, visit: optro.ai.
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