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Versance.ai Launches Compliance-Grade AI for Public Companies

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Evidence-First Reasoning and Strict Provenance Power Issuer Applications including IR Agent and Investor Research Assistant

Versance.ai, the pioneer of Compliance-Grade AI for public companies, today announced the launch of its Compliance-Grade AI platform, a system engineered to produce accurate, evidence-backed answers aligned with regulated disclosure standards. Built specifically for public-market environments, the platform emphasizes verification over generation, ensuring that every response is tied to official filings and company-validated information.

“Compliance-grade is not a slogan - it’s a standard,” said George Fleming, Founder of Versance.ai. “It means every answer must be traceable, time-aware, and tied directly to the source document. Versance was built so issuers can communicate with certainty, and investors can rely on information that is verifiable in seconds. AI will define the next era of trust and transparency in global capital markets, and our platform is leading that shift.”

“The feedback from investors has been excellent,” said the CEO of a NYSE-listed company. “Versance earned our trust with results we can verify - every answer is tied directly to our filings and is fully auditable. It’s becoming an important part of how we communicate with investors.”

Public-company teams face challenges that generic AI systems are not designed to meet. In regulated communications, partial retrieval, stale information, lack of provenance, and one-shot guessing can result in confident but incorrect responses. These shortcomings create high error rates in financial and legal contexts and increase regulatory risk. Public companies require AI systems that are verifiable, time-aware, and built for auditability, not systems that simply “sound right.”

Versance.ai addresses this need with a proprietary agentic retrieval and reasoning system that aligns every answer to where the truth actually lives: official filings, corporate disclosures, and real-time company sources. The platform applies a structured methodology - selecting the optimal retrieval strategy, reformulating and re-searching until sufficient evidence is gathered, surfacing ambiguity rather than speculating, enforcing strict time and provenance discipline, and gating every update through permanent evaluation scenarios designed to prevent regressions. This evidence-first approach ensures time-aware, transparent, audit-ready output suitable for public-company scrutiny.

In internal evaluations designed around real public-company questions, the system achieved approximately 99% answer appropriateness, meaning responses aligned with verifiable, on-record facts. Accuracy is assessed across factuality, completeness, relevance, tone compliance, and confidence, creating a stable, regression-safe baseline for ongoing product updates.

The platform is built on a three-layer architecture centered around auditability and guardrails:

  • A Global Data Foundation that aggregates and processes issuer disclosures across formats and jurisdictions.
  • A Securities-Compliant AI Engine built from the ground up for regulated disclosure, with Reg FD / NI 51-102 guardrails and strict source attribution.
  • A Multi-Issuer Application Suite, which includes the flagship IR Agent, the Investor Research Assistant, the Public Company CoPilot, SEDAR/EDGAR research tools, compliance monitoring, and AI-powered news release and social-content authoring.

Investor behavior is rapidly evolving. Retail investors now account for more than 20% of U.S. equity trading volume, and 41% of new brokerage accounts are opened by investors under 45. This demographic is notably tech-first, with Gen Z and Millennials increasingly comfortable using AI to help manage information and decision-making. Public companies are under pressure to provide instant, accurate access to verified information - and to do so through channels that match how modern investors consume it.

Versance-powered IR Agents deployed by companies listed on the NYSE, Nasdaq, TSX, and TSX Venture have already demonstrated that investors want AI tools. Across these early deployments, investors have asked over 4,250 questions, representing 1,900 unique users, with 73% of visitors converting to registered investors within the first 30 days. Registered investors ask an average of six questions per session, with 66% month-over-month growth in registered users and 40% repeat engagement. These behavioral signals show that investors are choosing accurate, evidence-based AI answers as a preferred channel for accessing company information.

The Versance.ai platform and full application suite are available today.

Request a live demonstration at www.versance.ai. View live IR Agents at ALT5 Sigma, Integra Resources and Medicenna Therapeutics.

About Versance.ai:

Headquartered in Vancouver, BC, Versance.ai builds Compliance-Grade AI for public companies. Its evidence-first reasoning system retrieves from official disclosures and company sources, applies strict time and provenance discipline, and delivers document-level citations with evaluation-gated consistency - powering applications for investor engagement, research & intelligence, compliance & reporting, and corporate communications.

Versance.ai was built so issuers can communicate with certainty, and investors can rely on information that is verifiable in seconds. AI will define the next era of trust and transparency in global capital markets, and we are leading the shift.

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