Audact Defense — when you need a human, with the evidence already signed.
Cryptographic incident reconstruction and General Counsel-facing reports, launching Q3 2026. When the regulator calls, the press calls, or a customer files — the goal is that your evidence is already signed, hashed and ready to ship.
Built for
General Counsels of regulated companies
Defense is not a product line — it is a hotline. Banking, insurance, healthcare, legal, telecom. Sectors where one incident decides the quarter, and a forty-page evidence pack decides the incident.
What triggers Defense
Four situations escalate from compliance question to active incident. Defense is on the other end of the line for all four.
Regulator inquiry
BaFin, AFM, BfDI, AP, ACM or another national authority opens a file on one of your AI deployments and requests evidence on a 48-hour clock.
Public PR incident
A journalist, watchdog or competitor publishes claims about an AI conversation that occurred on your platform. Counsel needs the full record yesterday.
Customer dispute
A consumer claims they were misled, mis-sold, or that disclosure was withheld during an AI interaction. Discovery requires call-level reconstruction.
Data-breach investigation
PII surfaced where it shouldn't, or a sub-processor incident requires you to prove which conversations were affected and what was disclosed.
What we deliver
Three artefacts in the standard package. Engineering muscle behind each one.
Full reconstruction
Every call, every disclosure, every tool-call, every policy version active at the moment of the interaction — reproduced from the cryptographic evidence chain.
Signed report, prepared for auditor review
A written report drafted in the format General Counsels expect. Merkle proofs attached. RFC 3161 timestamps. Structured for review by external counsel and exportable for regulator or DPO review.
Counsel briefing
Audact engineering on-call to brief your external counsel. Hourly within the incident budget envelope.
When you need Defense
Four real moments. Each one collapses a quarter of work into a 48-hour evidence sprint.
- Regulator inquiry letter received.BaFin, AFM, BfDI, AP, ACM or another national authority opens a file on one of your AI deployments and asks for evidence. The 48-hour SLA starts before you finish reading the letter.
- Public PR incident.Media-reported AI-fail involving one of your deployments. Counsel needs the full reconstructed record before the next news cycle, not after.
- Customer dispute escalating.A consumer claim is moving from complaint-letter to litigation threat. Discovery requires call-level reconstruction signed by an independent party.
- Suspected evidence-chain integrity issue.Internal or external review surfaces concerns about whether the evidence chain was tampered with. We re-derive every receipt from the public Merkle root.
What we deliver
Each engagement produces four artefacts. None of them are slide-decks.
- Full incident reconstruction (patent-pending).Every call, every disclosure, every tool-call, every policy version active at the moment of the interaction — all reproduced from the cryptographic evidence chain, with Merkle proofs.
- General Counsel-facing PDF + verbal briefing.Written in the format GCs and external counsel expect — executive summary, finding, evidence appendix. One-hour verbal walkthrough included.
- Counsel briefing.Audact engineering is available to brief your external counsel. Hourly within the incident budget envelope.
- 48-hour response SLA.Retainer customers get a 48-hour first-response guarantee. Non-retainer engagements are best-effort, typically 3-5 working days.
Two ways to engage
A standing retainer for priority response, or a scoped per-incident engagement with no standing cost. Final figures are confirmed with the platform at the Q3 2026 launch.
With retainer
Priority response
- · Priority queue · 48-hour first-response SLA
- · Per-incident engagement, scoped per incident
- · Quarterly readiness review included
Without retainer
Per-incident
- · Engagement scoped per incident · no standing fee
- · Best-effort response (typically 3–5 days)
- · Same engineering quality, lower priority
Coverage scope
Defense covers governed conversations within an active Audact policy pack. If a call ran outside Audact, or against a deprecated policy version, the reconstruction is best-effort and the cryptographic Merkle proof may not apply. We will tell you that on day one, in writing, before scope is locked. Audact Defense does not provide legal advice; external counsel remains responsible.
How an engagement is structured
Retainer-first. You only engage incident pricing when an incident is opened — and we confirm scope in writing before the meter starts. Priced with the platform, confirmed at the Q3 2026 launch.
Retainer
Standing readiness
- · 48-hour first-response SLA
- · Access to Defense hotline
- · Evidence-vault retention extended to 7 years
- · Quarterly incident-readiness review
Active incident
Scoped per incident
- · Full reconstruction within 5 working days
- · Signed report, prepared for auditor review
- · Up to 20 hours testimony / counsel briefing
- · Scope and jurisdictions confirmed in writing before work begins
Talk to the Defense team
Defense engagements are scoped by our Defense team. Write once. We respond within one working day.