By Marcus Law
Publication Date: 2026-06-02 14:05:00
When compliance teams are brought in late, there are typically two outcomes.
Either they step in to halt the rollout, or the gaps surface after the fact, when it is too late. Dan Nadir, VP of Product at Theta Lake, is clear about where that leads:
“By then, the horses have left the barn.”
Regulatory scrutiny of digital communications has tightened, the feature surface of platforms like Webex has expanded, and AI capabilities have introduced compliance exposure that most regulated firms have never had to navigate. Getting ahead of all three requires bringing compliance into the conversation before deployment begins, not after.
Why The Compliance Conversation Is Starting Sooner
A new communications platform carries the same retention and supervision obligations as every other channel in the stack, and platforms like Webex move fast, shipping new features continuously. Many of them have the potential to cause a compliance gap. As…
