Ask Compliance
A clearer path through every file.
Give your affordable housing team a clearer starting point for file review. Upload a supported file for review, inspect the annual income calculation, and work through the suggested corrections. Your staff verify the findings and make the final decisions.
- Employment verification is dated after the effective date on the certification.
- The asset section is missing a household member signature.
- Household composition differs between two forms in the file.
What a review produces
A complete file still needs a careful review.
Ask Compliance reads an uploaded file and hands your team two things: a calculation they can check, and a short list of items worth a second look.
- An annual income calculation
- The income figures the review found in the file, shown with the components that make up the total so a reviewer can follow the arithmetic.
- Suggested corrections
- A list of items to look at: dates that do not line up, missing signatures, forms that disagree with each other. Each one is a prompt for a person, not a verdict.
- A place to start
- Your staff open the file, check the findings against the source documents and the applicable requirements, and decide what needs to happen next.
Where the line is
The decision stays with your team.
- Ask Compliance does not determine eligibility and does not certify a file.
- It does not replace your reviewer's judgment or your compliance policies.
- We publish no accuracy rate, time saving, or audit outcome, because none has been independently measured.
Before a pilot
What we confirm together first.
We demonstrate the workflow a buyer will actually receive. That means agreeing on the scope before anyone uploads a document.
- Programs and jurisdictions
- Which housing programs and jurisdictions an initial review would need to support.
- File types and sizes
- The formats your team actually works in, and the upload limits a pilot would need.
- Document handling
- Access, hosting, retention, deletion and processing arrangements, agreed before anything is uploaded.
- A safe first file
- Start with a fictional or appropriately de-identified sample, and agree on the questions to answer before the demonstration.
Ask Compliance is built on Corva, the LIHTC compliance rulebook created by Zyon Del-Valle.
Corva is available bundled inside Brain, as Ask Compliance, or on its own as a standalone product for teams that want file review without the rest of the platform. Read more about Corva’s founder on the About page.
Ask Compliance sits alongside Ask the Brain in the same platform, so the team reviewing files and the team asking policy questions work from the same company knowledge. See how HōM Flats uses both.
See the file review workflow.
We can walk through a fictional sample and compare the output with the source documents.