Compliance

Compliance in the code path, not in a policy document.

Every dialer vendor will send you a compliance policy. A policy is a document that describes what should happen. Assurna checks consent state, calling hours in the prospect's own time zone, and your internal do-not-call list before a number is dialed, which means the rules are a property of the software rather than a habit your floor is asked to maintain. That is a different kind of control, and it is the one that holds up when the agent who was supposed to remember has been gone for six months.

Assurna is software, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. These controls are how the product behaves. Whether your agency is compliant depends on your own program, your consent sourcing, and counsel who knows your situation. Read our legal disclosures.

The dialer cockpit before the line opens. The chips under the lead record are the checks the system has already made: calling hours open in the prospect's time zone, consent on file, and contact preferences honored. Every surface on this page is drawn with sample data.

What changes on the floor

A control you do not have to police.

Compliance stops being something you audit for and starts being something the system does, which changes what an owner has to watch and what an owner has to prove.

  • 01

    Stop relying on an agent remembering the rule

    The check happens before the dial, in the system, for every agent, on every campaign, every time. Nothing about it depends on training retention, on tenure, or on whether it is the last hour of a long day.

  • 02

    Have the call when someone asks for it

    Recordings and transcripts attach to the lead record automatically. When a complaint arrives, the conversation behind it is on the record that produced it rather than somewhere in an export nobody kept. Retention is handled by the system.

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    See which calls need a human look

    Completed calls are scored against compliance dimensions, and the ones that need review surface for an administrator rather than waiting to be found. Sampling calls at random finds problems eventually. Scoring every call and reviewing the flagged ones finds them this week.

The choke point

One path in, so there is one place to enforce.

Outbound calling in Assurna goes through one path. Whether the dial comes from an agent in preview mode, from the system in power or progressive mode, or from the AI Appointment Setter, it passes the same checks in the same place before a number is dialed. There is no second route around it, because there is no second route.

Consent state

Carried on the lead record, so what the prospect agreed to travels with the prospect rather than living in the spreadsheet the lead arrived on.

Calling hours

Evaluated against the prospect's own time zone rather than the agent's, which is the case that breaks floors selling across the country.

Internal do-not-call state

Applied at the record, so a request made on one call is honored on the next one, by a different agent, on a different campaign.

A control that sits at a choke point cannot be skipped under pressure. A control that sits in a policy is only as good as the least experienced person on your floor at the end of their worst shift. That difference is the entire argument on this page.

These are the checks the system performs. Federal list scrubbing and state-level rule enforcement are not presented here as active controls. Where a control is not running in production, we do not describe it as though it is. Ask on your demo call and you will get the current state rather than a roadmap.

After the call

Score every call, review the ones that need it.

Enforcement handles what happens before the dial. Scoring handles what happened during the call, which is where the risk that matters actually lives, because nobody is sued over a dial and everybody is sued over a conversation.

Compliance review for one call: the overall score, the dimension it was graded on, the note behind each score, and the flags raised against timestamps in the recording. The rubric scores and a person decides.

Completed calls are scored against compliance dimensions, and the score sits on the call with the transcript that produced it. An administrator gets a review surface: the calls that scored badly, the dimension they scored badly on, and the transcript to read. That is a workflow, not a dashboard. The point is that somebody reviews the call and closes the loop with the agent, and the system's job is to make sure the right call reaches them.

For an owner, this changes what compliance oversight costs. Reviewing a random sample is a tax with poor coverage. Reviewing the flagged calls is a shorter list with better yield.

The record

What you would produce if a demand letter arrived.

If a demand letter arrives eight months from now, the question is simple and unforgiving: can you produce what happened?

In Assurna the recording, the transcript, the disposition, the consent state at the time of the call, and the agent who made it are on the lead record. There is no reconciliation between a dialer's archive and a CRM's notes, because there is one system.

This is also the practical reason a floor should not run a dialer and a CRM as two products. The evidence you need is exactly the thing that gets lost in the gap between them.

The deals board. Every card here is a lead record, and the recording, the transcript, and the disposition sit on the record behind it rather than in a separate dialer archive.

How it fits the rest

One calling path, so there is one place to enforce.

The reason the enforcement claim holds is structural. The dialer, the AI Appointment Setter, and every campaign on the floor call through the same path, so a rule applied there is applied to all of them. The transcript that the coaching reads is the transcript the compliance scoring reads. The lead record that carries consent state is the same record that goes on to carry the quote, the application hand-off, and the policy. Compliance is not a module bolted to the side of that, it is a gate inside it.

One record, first dial to issued policy
  1. Lead

    Worked in the same place it is dialed

  2. Dial

    Preview, power, or progressive

  3. Transcript

    Attached to the record, not to a vendor

  4. Quote

    Multi-carrier comparison, built in

  5. Application

    Handed off to the carrier's own application

  6. Policy

    Tied back to the call that wrote it

Questions

What an owner asks before signing anything.

These are the questions that come up on a compliance call, answered the way we would answer them on the phone. If yours is not here, bring it to the demo.

How does Assurna enforce TCPA and calling-hours rules?
In the calling path, before a number is dialed. Consent state and internal do-not-call state ride on the lead record, and calling hours are evaluated against the prospect's own time zone rather than the agent's. Because every outbound call goes through one path, including calls placed by the AI Appointment Setter, the check applies to every dial rather than to the ones an agent remembered to think about. Assurna is software and not a law firm, and this describes how the product behaves rather than guaranteeing your agency is compliant.
Why does it matter whether compliance is in the code or in a policy?
A policy describes what should happen and depends on every person following it, including your newest agent in the last hour of a hard day. A check in the calling path happens whether anyone remembers it or not. Both are worth having. Only one of them is a control you can rely on when you are not watching.
Are calls recorded, and where do the recordings go?
Yes. Recordings and transcripts attach to the lead record automatically, along with the disposition and the agent who made the call, and retention is handled by the system rather than by someone maintaining an archive. When a complaint arrives months later, the conversation is on the record that produced it.
Does Assurna scrub against the federal do-not-call registry?
Internal do-not-call state is enforced at the record: a request made on one call is honored on the next one, by a different agent, on a different campaign. We do not present federal registry scrubbing or state-level rule enforcement as active controls on this page, because we only describe what is actually running. Bring your list sourcing and your scrubbing arrangement to the demo call and you will get a straight answer about where the boundary sits today.
How are calling hours handled for a floor that sells nationally?
Against the prospect's own time zone, which is the case that breaks agencies selling across the country. An agent working late on the east coast is not the same thing as a prospect being called late on the west coast, and the system evaluates the one that matters.
Does the AI Appointment Setter follow the same rules?
Yes. It dials through the same path with the same checks in front of it. Automating outreach does not route around the rules, and if it did, it would be the single most dangerous thing you could put on a telesales floor.
What happens after the call?
Completed calls are scored against compliance dimensions and the ones that need a human look surface in an administrator review queue with the transcript attached. Random sampling finds problems eventually. Scoring every call and reviewing the flagged ones finds them while you can still do something about them.
Does Assurna hold a security certification?
No, and we will not imply one. Assurna holds no security certification today. If your governance requirements need one, say so on the demo call so nobody wastes a quarter finding out. A dedicated instance is available if your data cannot sit alongside other agencies.
Does using Assurna make my agency compliant?
No. Nothing does. Software can enforce rules in the calling path, keep the record of what was said, and put the risky calls in front of a human. Your consent sourcing, your scripts, your lead vendors, and your training are yours, and your counsel is the right person to tell you where you stand. We would rather say that plainly than sell you a feeling of safety.

Assurna is software, not a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. These controls are how the product behaves. Whether your agency is compliant depends on your own program, your consent sourcing, and counsel who knows your situation. Read our legal disclosures.

What would you produce if a demand letter arrived tomorrow?

Bring your consent sourcing, your calling hours problem, and the case that keeps you up. We will show you exactly where the check happens, and tell you plainly what the software does not do.

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See pricingAssurna is software, not a law firm, and nothing on this page is legal advice.