AI in Backsplice — overview
Backsplice's AI features are collectively called Watney. They're woven through the app to take the busywork out of governance work — drafting, summarizing, explaining, and triaging — while always leaving the decision to you.
This page is the map. Each capability has its own help page linked below.
The one rule everything follows
AI proposes; a human reviews and applies. No AI output is ever applied to your program automatically. Every draft, summary, and verdict is a suggestion you accept, edit, or dismiss.
Two things to know about how your data is handled:
- Watney sends the model provider only what a task needs. Many features send aggregate figures and short labels: counts, scores, dates, question codes. **Two kinds of content may contain personal or confidential information and do reach the model:** the contents of evidence files you upload (or Watney's earlier summaries of them), when Watney reviews or drafts an answer or summarizes evidence, and free text you or your staff type or paste in, such as assessment notes, system documentation, a finding title or description, or a question you ask Watney. You choose what to upload and what to type, and Watney is off until an administrator opts in. Watney's system card names the model provider and the models.
- Every AI call is recorded in the usage log (metadata only, never the prompt or the output). The drafts Watney produces are kept with the record they belong to, so a reviewer can see what was suggested.
What Watney can do
Ask & plan
- Watney Q&A — ask plain-language questions about your program; answers cite the figures they used and stream in as they're written.
- Next actions & Daily Brief — the highest-leverage things to do next, grounded in your data, with one-click deep links.
Assess & evaluate
- Answer evaluation — checks an assessment answer against the requirement and your evidence, with a 95%-confidence bar; you can accept or override.
- Answer drafting — suggests a starting answer for a question (suggest-only).
- Explain a requirement — plain-language explanation of what a control is asking for.
- Assessment executive summary — a board-level summary of a completed assessment.
Draft the work
- Policy drafting · Risk drafting · Remediation drafting — turn a gap or finding into reviewable draft text or tasks.
- Cross-framework coverage & crosswalk suggestions — map an answered question onto controls in your other frameworks.
Evidence & posture
- Evidence summarization & intake — summarize an uploaded document and suggest which questions it supports.
- Compliance score & posture trend narrative — explains how your program moved over time.
Audit readiness
- Mock audit interview — a rehearsal of the questions an external auditor would ask, weighted to your weakest areas.
- Auditor packet narrative — a cover narrative for the export.
Stay on top of it
- AI Suggestions inbox — one place for every AI draft waiting on you, with open-and-review or dismiss.
Tell us when it's wrong
Most AI output carries a 👍 / 👎 "Was this helpful?" control. Your ratings are private to your organization and surface on the AI Usage page (Settings → AI Usage), alongside per-feature and per-user call counts — so an admin can see which features are landing and which need attention.
Turning AI on or off
Watney is included on Premium and Enterprise. It is not part of the demo: the opt-in itself is refused there, and every AI service also refuses at the point of use.
On a plan, Watney is still off until an org admin opts in (and accepts the data-sharing disclaimer), in Settings → Organization. The plan and the per-org consent are two separate gates: a plan does not imply consent for AI to read your evidence files.
Usage limits
Watney is included on Premium and Enterprise at no extra charge, within fair-use limits. If your organization reaches a limit, Watney pauses, and the pause message says when it resumes or how to turn it back on; approvals, registers and exports never depend on Watney and keep working. An admin can also set a daily call limit in Settings → AI Usage, to bound how often Watney runs.
When AI is off, the AI surfaces show a short explainer instead of a dead button.