After 18 months of shipping AI features into risk workflows, a pattern has emerged: the wins are narrower — and deeper — than the demos suggest.
Where Copilots Win
- Summarizing long vendor responses into reviewer-ready notes.
- Drafting follow-up questions from a partial answer.
- Mapping new framework language to existing control libraries.
Where They Don't
Anything that requires ground truth the model doesn't have — pricing, contractual terms, jurisdictional nuance — still needs a human in the loop. The right question is not 'can AI do this' but 'what does the reviewer no longer have to do'.
