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NIST Assistant

In development

An open-domain reading assistant for NIST SP 800-series and related digital-policy corpora.

What this will do

Ask plain-language questions about NIST publications, frameworks, and the standards landscape — get answers grounded in the actual source documents, with citations back to the section that supports the claim. No hallucinated guidance, no out-of-date framework versions, no opinion masquerading as standard.

Who's building it

NIST_LLM is a Cortex AI LLC internal model. Retrieval-augmented generation over a curated corpus of NIST Special Publications, FIPS, and SP 1800-series practice guides. When it's ready, it powers a dedicated reading assistant here and feeds other Cortex properties.

Status

Corpus ingestion + retrieval scaffold — not yet public.

Architecture and schema drafted (see docs/SCHEMA.md §3 — Documents, Chunks, Embeddings, Retrieval Sessions). First-light when the dedicated AI host comes online.

Engineered by Cortex AI LLC·For iGRAIL, for the Cortex network, for the people.

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TERM OF THE DAY
July 18, 2026
Compliance

AML (Anti-Money Laundering)

A set of laws, regulations, and procedures intended to prevent criminals from disguising illegally obtained funds as legitimate income. Applied to traditional finance and increasingly to cryptocurrency.

Related Terms:
KYCFinancial CrimeRegulationCompliance
Source: Financial Regulation