Semantic search for finance, contracts, and compliance.
Finance teams don't search for words—they search for obligations, exceptions, and precedent. CogniWeave's semantic retrieval finds the right clause regardless of how the question is phrased, with citations for audit.
AP automation
Match invoices to purchase orders by meaning, not by OCR exactness. Vendor abbreviations, line-item reorderings, and currency variations no longer break the join.
Contract risk
Find similar clauses across past deals to benchmark new terms—indemnity caps, limitation of liability, change-of-control, auto-renewal. Reviewers see precedent in seconds.
Regulatory compliance
Describe a scenario in plain English and retrieve the relevant sections from APRA, ASIC, GDPR, SOX, or internal policy—even when the exact terminology differs.
Internal policies
Locate policy precedent for a specific question instead of grepping a SharePoint. Answers carry citations to the exact paragraph for sign-off.
Example queries
- • “What's our process for late payment penalties?” returns the payment terms section even if the phrase isn't there verbatim.
- • “Can we extend payment terms to 90 days?” matches vendor negotiation policies and historical exceptions.
- • “Cap on consequential damages for a SaaS reseller” surfaces the liability clauses of comparable past contracts.
Finance-tuned embeddings
CogniWeave uses a finance-tuned managed embedding model for domain accuracy on contracts, regulations, and ledger language—measurably better than general-purpose models on financial corpora.
Common questions
How accurate is semantic search on tabular data?
Numeric tables benefit from a hybrid approach: semantic recall over surrounding text plus structured filters on the table itself. CogniWeave parses tables out of PDFs and DOCX so they remain queryable alongside the prose context.
Can it handle redacted or partially scanned documents?
Yes. CogniWeave runs OCR on scanned pages and treats redactions as opaque tokens. Surrounding context still supports retrieval, and citations point to the source page so reviewers can confirm.
Is there an audit trail for compliance?
Every query is logged with the user, workspace, top results, scores, and source files. Logs are retained per your data retention policy and exportable on request.
Does it support multi-language documents?
CogniWeave's managed embeddings are multilingual, so a question in English can retrieve a clause in French or Mandarin if the meaning aligns.