Notes
Stop reading the same document twice
Tobiloba Odejinmi · 5 Jul 2025 · 6 min · 246 words
Direct answer
Most review work is the same document, again. Pull the fields. Flag the gaps. Leave the weird cases for a person. That is how review time dropped by about half at SmartComply. The model was not the hero. The loop was.
- The win is fewer hours on the pile, not a perfect model.
- A person still sees the cases that do not fit.
- If you cannot explain a miss, you are not ready to go live.
- Measure review time and miss rate, not 'AI usage'.
The pile is the product
Compliance work often starts as PDFs. Someone reads them. Someone types the same fields into a form. Then they do it again tomorrow. That is not a strategy problem. That is a process you can write down.
At SmartComply we used structured output so the system had to return a shape we could check. Zod is unglamorous. It is also how you stop a model from inventing a field.
Keep a person in the loop
I do not ship a reviewer-less system for this kind of work. The first pass can be automatic. The miss still needs a name next to it. If that sounds slow, try explaining a silent miss to a customer.
Questions people ask
Did you remove reviewers?
No. We took the first pass off them. They still own the cases that need judgment.
What dropped?
Manual review work fell by about half. Incident response got faster too, because people were not buried in the pile.
Written by
Tobiloba Odejinmi
Head of Engineering at 10mg Health. I have run engineering at Zeeh Africa and sold Insurpass and Shopl. I still write the code. If you have one process that still runs on people copying things, we can look at it in thirty minutes.
