Frequently Asked Questions

• What makes the Risk Agent different from a screening subscription?

   A screening tool tells you whether a supplier appears on a list. The Risk Agent assesses that finding against your own classified spend, so you can see what the exposure is worth, how it compares to peers in the same category, and what to do about it. The output is a recommendation, not an alert.

• What risk data does the Risk Agent use?

  Licensed global risk data, including Dow Jones Risk & Compliance and Dow Jones Factiva for sanctions and adverse media, combined with your internal spend, purchase order and supplier master data. Each finding is returned with its source, a confidence level and a date.

• Which risk dimensions does it assess?

  Sanctions & watchlists, adverse media, labour & human rights, financial stability, regulatory & legal, and concentration risk. Assessments are returned as a composite risk score with the contributing factors broken out.

• How do I ask the Risk Agent a question?

  In plain language, by chat or by voice. For example: “Can you perform a detailed risk analysis for this supplier in Australia, and provide sources?” or “Benchmark the IT consulting category for Australia from a risk perspective.”

• Can it compare suppliers or benchmark a whole category?

  Yes. It compares two suppliers side by side across severity, regulatory resolution, compliance response and recency, and benchmarks an entire category against regional peers - including spend distribution, market concentration and risk level by supplier.

• Is the scoring explainable?

  Yes. Every assessment comes with a transparent breakdown of the contributing factors and the sources behind them. There are no black boxes, and findings are auditable for compliance and governance purposes.
  

• Does it help with Modern Slavery Act obligations?

  The Risk Agent screens for labour and human rights indicators as one of its risk dimensions, and returns findings with cited sources — the kind of evidence that supports modern slavery reporting. It sits within RobobAI’s wider Third Party Risk Management product, which covers modern slavery, carbon emissions, DEI and Indigenous supplier reporting.

• How accurate is the Risk Agent?

  The Risk Agent has been validated to detect supplier risk with 92%+ precision. Assessments are bias-monitored and privacy-compliant, and critical decisions stay human-in-the-loop - the agent recommends, your team decides.