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How AI is Helping Regulators Thrive Amid a Data Overload 

The explosion of data is relentless, 333 million emails every day¹ and an estimated 10-fold increase in the volume of data from 2020 to 2030². Regulators can’t afford to miss the key evidence that proves intent or exposes misconduct, the smoking gun, often with fewer resources and greater public scrutiny.  

Today, traditional approaches simply can’t keep up. Critical evidence risks being buried deep in piles of data collected across emails, chat messages, PDFs, and voice recordings. This unstructured data delays investigations, obscures critical insights, and hinders justice.

That’s why more than 90 regulatory agencies worldwide have turned to Nuix. This article explores how they are transforming their operations and upholding public trust.

With Nuix, forward-thinking regulators are achieving:

• 67% faster investigations and 90% cost savings, all managed securely in-house.³
• 10x case capacity, analyzing hundreds of thousands of items in days, not months.³
• 95% automation, freeing up staff for higher-value work and improving retention.⁴
• Explainable, auditable outputs that stand up in court, Congress or Parliament.

Finding the Smoking Gun  

The Challenge: 
Over 90% of regulatory evidence is unstructured⁵. Emails. Social media. Audio files. This is where the critical clues live, and where they’re most easily overlooked.

Leave No Stone Unturned: 
Agencies using AI-enabled solutions like Nuix are accelerating how they process and understand unstructured data. A major European financial regulator deployed Nuix to streamline analysis across multiple data types, with a consistent, audible, explainable process; leaving them confident that no evidence was missed.

“Nuix leaves no stone unturned, no place for data to hide and ensures our enforcement team captures every critical detail.” - Director at major European financial regulator

Similarly, the Special Adviser and Head of UNITAD (United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant), said Nuix’s workflow automation suite “has increased the data-processing throughput of the Team by more than 350 per cent. Within three months of its implementation, the software allowed the Team to clear the backlog of evidence.”

Nuix’s understands unstructured data at the binary level, surfacing connections and anomalies with forensic precision. That means investigators can find the critical piece of evidence swiftly and accurately, even if it’s disguised, deleted, or hiding in plain sight.

Quantifiable Outcomes:

• Up to 67% faster investigations³
• 350% increase in data processing throughput⁶
• 24-hour evidence processing  
• Same-day access to electronic evidence, not weeks later⁷

Rising Public Expectations

The Challenge: 
Citizens expect swift action and thorough investigations from regulators. Delays erode trust and open the door to criticism. Similarly, missing a key piece of evidence can not only jeopardize a case but also erode confidence in the regulator’s ability to act.

Uphold Public Trust: 
By modernizing their data handling and reporting capabilities, regulators can ensure that sensitive data stays in-house, workflows are fully auditable, and critical evidence is found and preserved.  

Talking about growing public scrutiny the Director at one of Australia’s integrity agencies said: “Nuix provides a level of explainability that manual processes simply can’t match. This confidence in the accuracy and consistency of our evidence bolsters public trust in the integrity of our work.”  

Quantifiable Outcomes:

• 67% faster investigations³
• 50% reduction in resource needs, do more with existing team³
• 90% cost reduction by bringing case reviews in-house³

Increased efficiency and cost savings is essential in a world where public scrutiny over government spending is higher than ever.

Doing More with Less  

The challenge: 
Budget constraints, coupled with the rising volume and complexity of cases is overburdening teams. Efficiency isn’t optional, it’s essential. But working faster can’t come at the cost of missing crucial information.

Reduced Idle Time: 
Leading regulators leverage Nuix’s automation to streamline routine tasks, ensuring fast, consistent data processing. With 24-hour automated evidence handling, delays and manual intervention are minimized, reducing the risk of critical evidence being overlooked. Nuix’s consistent processing profiles maintain productivity and integrity, allowing teams to focus on high-level analysis with confidence in accurate, reliable results. 

A European regulator with manual investigation processes requiring over 400 separate steps, had their team stretched to its limits. Nuix slashed case processing times by up to 67%, reduced costs by 90%, and increased case throughput fivefold – all while keeping their teams lean and focused on higher-value work.³

Quantifiable Outcomes:

• Achieved 95% automation⁴
• 90% cost savings³
• 10x increase in data processing capacity³
• Investigation time cut from 6 months to 4 weeks³

Defensible AI That Holds Up in Court

The Challenge: 
The public and the courts are rightly skeptical of black-box AI. Such AI tools offer speed at the expense of transparency, raising real risks for regulatory integrity. If you can’t explain how a decision was made, or missed, you can’t defend it. While AI accelerates analysis, unexplainable algorithms can’t be trusted in courtrooms or parliamentary inquiries. Decisions must be explainable, processes transparent, and evidence defensible.

Ethical AI: 
Nuix’s ethical, explainable AI and auditable workflows are built for defensibility, ensuring every decision is rooted in legally defensible data lineage. Agencies use it to ensure that every action, from evidence identification to automated decisions, can be reviewed, justified, and defended.  

“Explainability in court is crucial. A judge, a jury, and the public can have confidence in the way we processed evidence with Nuix because it is explainable, it is consistent, and it's auditable. … the digital forensics officer can be confident in their statement to the court.

Overload to Insight: Make the Case with Nuix

For over a decade, Nuix has been the trusted partner of regulators globally, and the results speak for themselves. With Nuix, regulators worldwide are cutting investigation times, trimming costs, and protecting sensitive data in-house.  

Discover how our technology can help you uncover insights, accelerate investigations, and deliver results your citizens can trust.

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¹ https://explodingtopics.com/blog/data-generated-per-day 
² UBS Report: How the data universe could grow more than 10 times from 2020 to 2030
³ Nuix Customer Reference: Leading European Financial Regulator 
⁴ Nuix Customer Reference: Australian Government Department, FOI Processing. https://www.nuix.com/case-studies/revolutionizing-foi-requests-how-governments-are-supercharging-efficiency 
⁵ According to research from IDC that 90% of data is unstructured 
⁶ Eighth report of the Special Adviser and Head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, page 18. https://iraq.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-06/N2236368.pdf 
⁷ Nuix Customer Reference: Australian Integrity Agency. https://www.nuix.com/case-studies/how-integrity-agencies-are-streamlining-investigations-and-bolstering-public-trust