Introducing AML Simple Ask: your AML questions, answered with sources

When you have a compliance question at 8pm on a Wednesday, your options are usually:

• Dig through AUSTRAC's guidance documents (specific, but not fast)
• Google it and land on a law firm blog post from 2022 (fast, but unreliable)
• Wait until Monday and call a consultant (reliable, and expensive)

None of these are great. So we built a fourth option.

What AML Simple Ask is

AML Simple Ask is a conversational AI assistant for AML/CTF compliance questions. You ask in plain English. It answers with information drawn directly from AUSTRAC source material.

Ask is purpose-built for Australian real estate AML compliance, grounded in the actual legislation, AUSTRAC guidance, and Tranche 2 requirements that affect your agency.

Try it now at amlsimple.com/chat. Free, no account needed.

[SCREENSHOT: AML Simple Ask: chat interface showing a question about CDD requirements with an AI response in progress]

The part that matters: it shows you the source

There are plenty of tools that'll give you an AI-generated answer to a compliance question. Most of them won't tell you where that answer came from.

That matters. In compliance, the source counts. An answer that cites AUSTRAC's Customer Due Diligence guidance is very different from an answer that's technically plausible but not grounded in anything specific.

AML Simple Ask uses a citation engine that ties every response back to the AUSTRAC source material it's drawing from. You can see exactly what it's citing and verify it yourself.

[SCREENSHOT: AML Simple Ask: split-screen view showing the AI response on the left and the cited AUSTRAC source document on the right]

The split-screen layout makes this practical: the answer on one side, the source on the other. You don't have to take our word for it. You can read the primary source yourself.

What you can ask

The kinds of questions Ask handles well are the ones that come up in practice:

• When do I need to collect CDD on a buyer vs a seller?
• What triggers enhanced CDD?
• Does my foreign client count as a PEP?
• What records do I need to keep, and for how long?
• I have a trust client. What do I need to identify?
• What happens if a client refuses to provide ID?

Questions about your specific situation ("am I compliant?", "should I file an SMR?") are a different matter. Ask won't answer those, because those are judgment calls that belong with you and your compliance officer. If an answer requires professional assessment of the facts, it'll tell you that directly and point you to where you can get proper guidance.

This isn't a limitation we're apologising for. It's the point. Ask does the information work. You make the decisions.

[SCREENSHOT: AML Simple Ask: example response to a question about enhanced CDD, with cited AUSTRAC source visible]

Free to use, no account needed

Ask is available at amlsimple.com/chat with no sign-up required. You can ask questions right now.

If you use AML Simple for your agency's compliance program, Ask is also available inside the platform, so you can get answers in the context of the actual work you're doing.

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