Ordova Advisory Compliance review & applied AI

Someone has to read the whole policy.

Gap analysis, testing workpaper review and control mapping for broker-dealers and registered firms — read line by line against the rule, on hardware we own, by a reviewer who has sat on both sides of the examination.

26 years financial-services compliance Goldman Sachs (Spear, Leeds) Merrill Lynch KPMG Citi BNY Mellon

What we do

Five engagements, in the order firms usually need them. Every one produces a document a reviewer can sign, not a dashboard.

01

Policy-to-rule gap analysis

Your written supervisory procedures read section by section against the requirements of a named rule — FINRA 3110, SEC 15c3-5, or an AML program under BSA/3310. You get a workpaper listing what is addressed, what is partial, and what could not be located, each quoting your own policy text so it can be verified in seconds.

From $2,500 per rule, per document set

02

Examination preparation — a second read of your testing

Your compliance testing read again before an examiner reads it for the first time. We look for the failure this owner spent a career finding: conclusions the evidence does not actually support, sample sizes that cannot carry the assertion, and exceptions closed without a documented disposition.

This is preparation, not attestation. It does not replace independent testing and nobody here signs it — you get the questions an examiner is likely to ask, early enough to answer them.

From $3,500 per testing cycle

03

White-label review for compliance consultants

If you already advise broker-dealers or RIAs, we do the reading. You get the gap-analysis workpaper under your own letterhead, with your conclusions and your signature — we never contact your client and never appear in the file. Useful when a policy review lands in a week you are already full.

Wholesale, per document set — ask

04

AI for compliance and audit teams

A half-day working session for a team that is already using AI unsupervised and would rather it were not. Document analysis, drafting, meeting summaries, spreadsheet work — plus the parts that matter in a regulated firm: what may never be pasted into a public model, how to spot a confident fabrication, and where a human signature is still required.

$2,500 – $5,000 per firm, half day · $750 – $1,500 for a 90-minute introduction

05

Private AI deployment

Document search, classification and extraction running entirely on hardware you or we control, for firms that cannot send client files to a hosted model. Built on the same infrastructure the reviews above run on.

$3,000 – $10,000 to implement · $500 – $2,000/month to run

What this is not

  • Not legal advice, and not a compliance opinion. Every finding is an observation for a qualified reviewer at your firm to accept, amend or reject. We do not conclude that a firm is or is not compliant — that judgement stays with the people who carry it.
  • No FINRA licences, and no supervisory sign-off. This practice does testing, gap analysis and workpaper review. It does not act as a CCO, supervise registered persons, or sign anything requiring a principal.
  • Your documents never leave our hardware. Reviews run on local models we operate. No policy, workpaper or exception log is sent to a third-party model provider — a claim that is only true because we own the machines.
  • A person reads it before you do. The first pass is machine-assisted so that nothing is skimmed. The conclusions are then reviewed by someone who has spent 26 years on this, and who will tell you when a finding is noise.