Automatic compliance tools

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having contents adapted to cause a compliance tool system to perform a method at least partly in a relational data structure for improving authority document compliance, the method comprising:

• receiving, by the compliance tool system, a mandate drafted for inclusion in an authority document;
• determining, by the compliance tool system, a readability score for the received mandate;
• comparing, by the compliance tool system, the readability score to a readability score standard;
• taking first action, by the compliance tool system, with respect to the received mandate based on the result of the comparison;
• assessing, by the compliance tool system, the level of similarity between the received mandate and a selected control;
• determining, by the compliance tool system, that the level of similarity between the received mandate and a selected control falls below a similarity standard;
• and
• taking second action, by the compliance tool system, with respect to the received mandate based on the determining of the level of similarity, wherein the relational data structure is usable by the compliance tool system or by another computing system to perform an authority document compliance review.

A method in a compliance tool system including a relational data structure for improving authority document compliance, the method comprising:

• receiving, by the compliance tool system, a first version of a common control comprising a first text sequence;
• determining, by the compliance tool system, that the first version of the added control fails to simultaneously satisfy a readability standard and a standard for similarity to a mandate associated with the common control;
• indicating, by the compliance tool system, that the first version of the common control fails to simultaneously satisfy the readability standard and the similarity standard;
• receiving, by the compliance tool system, a second version of the common control comprising a second text sequence;
• determining, by the compliance tool system, that the second version of the common control simultaneously satisfies the readability standard and the similarity standard;
• and
• indicating, by the compliance tool system, that the second version of the common control simultaneously satisfies the readability standard and the similarity standard, wherein the relational data structure is usable by the compliance tool system or by another computing system to perform an authority document compliance review.

A method in a compliance tool system including a relational data structure for improving authority document compliance, the method comprising:

• receiving, by the compliance tool system, a mandate drafted for inclusion in an authority document;
• determining, by the compliance tool system, a readability score for the received mandate;
• comparing, by the compliance tool system, the readability score to a readability score standard;
• taking first action, by the compliance tool system, with respect to the received mandate based on the result of the comparison;
• assessing, by the compliance tool system, the level of similarity between the received mandate and a selected control;
• determining, by the compliance tool system, that the level of similarity between the received mandate and a selected control falls below a similarity standard;
• and
• taking second action, by the compliance tool system, with respect to the received mandate based on the determining of the level of similarity, wherein the relational data structure is usable by the compliance tool system or by another computing system to perform an authority document compliance review.