IABuddy.ai

AI Copilot for Internal Audit & SOX

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IABuddy.ai — AI Copilot for Internal Audit and SOX

What It Does

IABuddy.ai is an AI-powered internal audit and SOX copilot designed to eliminate the most repetitive, manual parts of audit work — without replacing professional judgment.

The platform helps internal audit and SOX teams:

  • Build and manage centralized risk & control libraries
  • Automate control testing and generate test procedures and testing conclusions
  • Review, edit, and approve testing documentation
  • Smartly annotate audit evidence (PDF, Excel, Word) efficiently
  • Produce standardized, clean, audit-ready workpapers
  • Issue tracking and reporting in real time

The result is 10x faster, consistent, and defensible testing documentation that helps you stay compliant at scale.

How We Built It

IABuddy.ai is built as an AI-native system, not a traditional GRC platform with AI bolted on. We leveraged Google AI Studio for initial prototyping. On a later stage, we moved to using Antigravity to help with back-end and front-end integrations and iterative development.

Challenges We Ran Into

1. Designing for Regulators, Not Just Users

Regulators never log into the product — but they evaluate its outputs.

That meant:

  • Conservative AI behavior
  • Clear audit trails
  • Explicit documentation logic

If an output couldn’t survive inspection, it didn’t ship.

2. Handling Real-World Audit Data

Audit evidence is messy - supporting scanned PDFs, complex Excel sheets, and inconsistent formats required robust parsing pipelines.

3. Building as a Practitioner-Founder

Building iabuddy.ai required translating lived audit experience into production-grade software — without oversimplifying either domain.

Accomplishments We’re Proud Of

  • Built a fully functional AI audit platform end-to-end
  • Implemented explainable, human-in-the-loop AI
  • Designed a UX that mirrors real audit artifacts (controls, tickmarks, workpapers)
  • Successfully processed complex PDFs, Excel, and Word documents
  • Launched a transparent, token-based pricing model
  • Delivered a fast, lightweight alternative to enterprise GRC platforms

Most importantly:

We built something that internal auditors and businesses can confidently defend in a walkthrough.

What’s Next for IABuddy

The ultimate goal is to make IABuddy Your AI-Powered Internal Audit Co-Source for lean IA teams, startups, and pre-IPO companies.

IABuddy handles the heavy lifting of testing and documentation so you can focus on strategy and risk.

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