Responsiv organizes your compliance work into a set of connected objects. Understanding how they fit together helps you get the most from the platform.

The Compliance Workflow at a Glance

Responsiv's objects follow the natural flow of compliance work — from identifying what regulations apply to you, all the way through to tracking the actions your team takes to stay compliant.

Obligations → Requirements → Controls → Risks → Tasks

Each object builds on the one before it, creating a connected chain from regulatory source to team action.

Core Objects

Alerts

An Alert is a proactive notifications when regulatory changes may affect your tracked obligations. Generated automatically by Responsiv's Horizon Scanning system and scored by relevance to your business units.

Obligations

An Obligation represents a law, regulation, or rule that applies to your organization. It is the starting point for all compliance tracking in Responsiv.

• Linked directly to citations from Responsiv's regulatory library or your own uploaded regulatory files
• Tracks applicability, justification, effective dates, and treatment status
• Serves as the anchor for all downstream analysis

Example: "EU AI Act" or "CCPA — California Consumer Privacy Act"

Requirements

Requirements are the specific, actionable provisions extracted from an obligation. Responsiv's AI reads the full regulatory text and breaks it down into individual items your team needs to address.