Argus is the advisory assistant at the heart of the product — and the place a compliance
tool earns or loses trust. These rules are non-negotiable: AI here is cited, measured, labeled,
and reversible, and it always knows when to hand off to a human. Violet is reserved for it, and
nothing else.
One color, one meaning. Violet (--ai) marks AI and only AI — generated text,
the assistant, AI affordances. A user must never wonder whether a human or Argus produced something.
The trust contract
Six rules every AI surface obeys. Break one and we've shipped a liability, not a feature.
Reserved color
Violet is the AI signal and is used for nothing else. The instant a user sees it, they know Argus is involved.
Always cited
Every claim links to its source — a reg section or the bank's own policy. No citation, no statement. AI output is regulatory information, never legal advice.
Confidence shown
A confidence reading rides with every answer. Low confidence is surfaced, not hidden — it tells the officer when to verify.
Labeled as AI
Generated content carries the Argus mark and a "drafted by Argus — review before sending" affordance. Never passed off as human-authored.
Reversible
Argus proposes; the human disposes. Anything it drafts or inserts is editable and undoable before it counts.
Graceful human handoff
When a question crosses into legal judgment, Argus stops and routes to a Compliance Alliance specialist rather than guessing.
Anatomy of an answer
Every Argus response is the same shape: marked, cited, measured, and reversible.
a cited, measured AI answer
Do we need a SAR for a $9,500 structured deposit pattern?
Structuring deposits to stay under the $10,000 CTR threshold can itself be reportable under 31 CFR 1010.314, regardless of the individual amounts. Run the pattern through your SAR decisioning workflow before deciding.
Argus lives in a dockable side panel, always aware of the screen it's on. It assists;
it never acts unattended. The dock is layered at --z-drawer and traps focus when expanded.
ambient assistant dock
ArgusBSA/AML · First State Bank
What changed in the 1071 final rule?
The compliance tiers shifted: your origination volume puts you in the third tier, effective Oct 1, 2026.
Where Argus assists writing (the policy editor, a SAR narrative), it offers ghost text
you accept or dismiss — proposed, never imposed.
The institution will file a Currency Transaction Report for any cash transaction exceeding $10,000, aggregating multiple transactions by the same person on the same business day.
Argus suggestion
When Argus must stop
The handoff is a feature, not a failure. These trigger a route-to-human, not a guess.
Legal judgment. "Are we liable if…" — that's counsel's call, not Argus's.
Low confidence on a high-stakes question. Below threshold on a filing decision → escalate.
No grounding. If it can't cite a reg or the bank's policy, it says so and offers a specialist.
Institution-specific application. "Does this apply to us?" gets framed as information plus a pointer to review with counsel.
