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The AI jobs-pocalypse keeps not arriving. New research out from Ramp's Economics Lab is just the latest evidence of what we tell every CCO nervous about AI taking their jobs: gaining new capabilities means you can do more, not that you’ll be asked to do less. According to the data, companies that heavily adopt AI grow headcount by 10% the two years after adoption. Entry-level hiring grows 12%. Firms that “intensely” use AI hire 16% more finance roles (screengrabbed below) than those that use less. “If you are a young person entering the labor market and choosing between two otherwise similar firms,” say the authors, “choose the one that’s using AI. It’s more likely to grow faster.” Anecdotally, the same story plays out at RIAs that use Hadrius. Compliance teams are able to handle more work without adding headcount, scaling becomes more efficient, and guess what? The compliance teams end up adding headcount anyway. And when the new people join, they’re working smarter and doing more. If you're a compliance officer watching the headlines and bracing for irrelevance, the data points the other way. The work isn't disappearing. It's getting bigger. Link to the study in the comments. Ht Ara Kharazian and Ryan Stevens

When Caitlyn Mathews joined Hadrius two months ago, her job was bringing in new business on the GTM team. A few weeks ago she started helping Account Management handle a growing workload part-time. This week, we’re making it official. Welcome to the AM team, Caitlyn! When she’s not filling gaps at work, Caitlyn pursues a wild diversity of hobbies: birdwatching, chess, hiking, traveling, reading (Kafka ftw), Magic and D&D, jewelry making. Pictured below is an especially enjoyable hit she took after taking up rugby — AS AN ADULT. Thanks for being willing to step up and stay curious, Caitlyn! We’re thrilled to have you as our Founding Scaled Customer Success Manager. 💜 If you’re insanely interesting too, we’re hiring: hadrius.com/careers

Clearly compliance buyers are consolidating their shortlists around a handful of platforms — and Hadrius is showing up at the top of those conversations. Thanks for the shoutout in your survey ACA Group! 🚀🔥🥈

Compliance AI is the anti-slop. Last month, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report called “Sound Practices for Responsible Adoption of AI,” offering financial firms best practices for adopting new technology. Most of what it focused on was the extensive effort required to contain AI. Minimize its downside. The advice is obviously sound: firms using AI for credit underwriting or asset management are probably white-knuckling it a little bit. As the FSB advises, firms need thoughtful processes to limit the liability created by AI. But that’s the difference between generative AI and compliance AI: Generative AI begs for guardrails. Compliance AI helps you build them. Hadrius builds audit-ready documentation and increases transparency. It helps you run more effective branch testing, review more advertising and comms, monitor more accounts. Most of all, our goal is to not only scale the CCO’s oversight, but show you exactly how the system is doing so. The FSB’s recommendations are great for helping firms limit the slop that generative AI tends to produce: the unintended actions, the opaque decisions. Compliance AI like Hadrius? We’re the anti-slop. (Aside from this post.)

Two of our BDRs at Hadrius just got promoted this week, and we're hiring more in NYC. If you're competitive, coachable, and want to grow fast, apply below.

Happy Father's Day to those who have given up keeping comms in one channel.

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A tavola, NYC! 🇮🇹 🍝 🍷 🤌 On July 16, Hadrius is hosting a private dinner on our FiDi office’s outdoor terrace, and we’d love to save you a seat. The evening will be inspired by “la tavolata,” the leisurely family meal of southern Italy. We’ll have Aperol spritzes on arrival, Italian family-style dinner, and a private bar. No pitch, no agenda. Just good conversation with fellow compliance professionals dining under the city skyline. Request to join here: https://luma.com/eo1jn9rz

Take it from Prof. Daniel Taylor: If you’re not tracking your employees’ trading activity on prediction markets, you’re leaving yourself vulnerable. Last week, Hadrius gathered some of the top minds in prediction market integrity to discuss the challenges these venues are already opening up for compliance teams. The verdict? The regulatory landscape may still be messy, but prediction markets carry real risk for SEC- and FINRA-regulated firms today. Reputational risk, not to mention the accessibility of trading on material non-public information, is here today. Hadrius built a tool to help CCOs monitor their employees’ prediction market trades, currently available to every user of our Employee Oversight module. To understand why you might want to, view the webinar in the comments. Thank you to Lisa Pinheiro, Aaron Brogan, and our very own Som Mohapatra for a great discussion.

Sunday Thoughts 💭 Regulators had a busy few weeks. NYDFS dropped dual guidance on frontier AI and heightened cybersecurity threats. The Reg S-P smaller-firm deadline just passed on June 3rd. And the SEC’s 2026 exam priorities continue to hammer the same message: AI governance, communications surveillance, and vendor oversight are no longer back-burner issues. The pressure is real. The timelines are now. ⏰ Here’s what I keep thinking about, though. A lot of firms are going to read these NYDFS letters and the SEC exam priorities, feel the urgency, and then go back to the same legacy vendor they’ve been using for a decade. Not because it’s the right decision. Because they feel like they have no choice. That’s the trap. ❌ The compliance tech vendors who’ve dominated this space for 20 years built their business model around switching costs. Proprietary data formats. Complex migrations. Multi-year contracts with penalties baked in. By year two or three, the math is: it costs more to leave than to stay. That’s not a partnership. That’s a hostage situation. (Funny thing is… mostly all folks in the compliance space know who I am talking about, and I didn’t even have to mention their names) 😳 And here’s the thing that regulators are now making unavoidably clear… being trapped in a legacy system isn’t just expensive. It’s a liability. When NYDFS says “consider replacing end-of-life or legacy information systems,” they’re not talking about your on-prem infrastructure. They’re talking about every layer of your compliance stack. The firms that will pass exams in 2026 aren’t the ones who spent the most with their legacy vendor. They’re the ones who can demonstrate governance, show that AI-driven decisions have human review, that communications are captured across every channel, and that their vendor oversight is documented and defensible. That’s what Hadrius was built to do. AI-native from day one. No retrofitted modules, no bolt-on surveillance tools, no decade-old architecture with a modern UI slapped on top. We built a platform where AI surfaces the risk, and your compliance team makes the defensible call. That’s what examiners want to see. That’s what the NYDFS guidance is describing. Enterprise and strategic firms deserve infrastructure that’s actually on their side, not infrastructure that profits from keeping them stuck. Don’t contribute to helping your legacy vendor upgrade to a fancy office space and chef on staff. 🧑🍳 The regulatory calendar isn’t slowing down. Your compliance stack shouldn’t be slowing you down either.