PolicyDNA
Find where your policy no longer matches the law.
PolicyDNA reads your policies against the law in force and against each other. Your own Word documents come back with a comment on each passage that needs attention, explaining the issue and suggesting an action. A tracked edit appears only where there is one right answer, such as a renumbered section.
We run each review for you. Your officers work in Word and decide every change.
How it works
It reads your whole policy set
We agree with you which policies, procedures and guidance are in scope. PolicyDNA reads every passage against the legislation in force in your jurisdiction.
It also reads each document against the rest of the set. That finds where two documents give different instructions, or where one term means two things.
A comment on the words that need attention
PolicyDNA attaches each comment to the exact words it is about, so your officer sees the issue in place. The comment sets your passage beside the law or the other document, then suggests an action.
A finding against the law names the Act and section it was checked against. The text of that section goes into the findings report.
A tracked edit only where there is one right answer
Some fixes have one right answer, such as a section that has been renumbered. PolicyDNA makes those as tracked edits that change only the words that are wrong, with the reason in a comment. If an edit cannot be placed exactly, it becomes a comment instead.
Everything that needs a judgement stays a comment. Your officers accept or reject each edit in Word, like any other tracked change.
For a new Act, we agree with you before the run which changes become tracked edits.
Every finding is checked before you see it
PolicyDNA keeps a finding only if its quote appears word for word in your document. Each finding is then checked a second time, and dropped or revised if it does not hold.
Before a document comes back, its text is checked with every change accepted, to catch doubled or broken words a tracked edit can leave. Findings that fit no single passage are handed over separately, with the reason.
One report across the whole set
Alongside the marked-up documents, you get one findings report for the whole set. It opens in a web browser and works without an internet connection.
It starts with a summary, then shows where the problems concentrate and which documents are most affected. Each finding is rated critical, high, medium or low.
Where it is used
State child protection department
We reviewed its full policy set against a new Act.
State families department
It used PolicyDNA to support the revision of its child protection manual.
Territory police service
It used PolicyDNA to review its firearms policies and procedures.
Hosting and security
- Hosting
- Hosted in the AWS Sydney region.
- Model training
- Your data is not used to train models.
- Output
- Comments and tracked edits arrive in your own Word documents, with PolicyDNA shown as the author.
- Officers decide
- PolicyDNA suggests and your officers decide. Nothing in a document changes until someone accepts it.
How a pilot runs
- 01
Set up
We map your process and your law into the product. Your security review runs at the same time.
- 02
Pilot
Your staff use it on your own documents, alongside the current process.
- 03
Decide
You get measured results, such as time saved and issues found.
Try PolicyDNA on your own documents
A pilot runs on your own documents, alongside your current process.
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