Governance

Listed companies usually have written rules about what their people can say, to whom and when: a board charter, a code of conduct, a continuous disclosure policy, a media or social media policy. Those documents often decide whether a staff email, an announcement or a set of talking points can go out as written.

This option lets you hold a draft up against your own company’s policies while you can still change it. The ASX continuous disclosure and market rules are read alongside them, so a point your policies are silent on still gets checked.

The check looks in particular for information that may be market sensitive and has not been announced, forward-looking statements that do not give their basis, and unqualified claims, including environmental and sustainability claims. It also marks anything that restates earlier guidance or results. It does not have your earlier announcements, so those passages are flagged for you to check against what was announced before.

If you have not uploaded anything, the Compliance check’s “Publicly listed companies” option runs the same check against the ASX rules alone.

1. Upload your policies on this page. Word, PDF, plain text and Markdown files all work.
2. In First Draft or Second Read, open the Compliance check and choose “Your governance policies”.
3. Each finding quotes the passage from your draft, names the policy document or market rule it touches, gives you a question to take to your company secretary or legal adviser, and suggests a change. In First Draft you can then apply the suggested fixes to your story.

Come back here whenever a policy changes. Delete the old version and upload the new one, and the next check uses it.

For a listed company, a continuous disclosure policy typically sets out who may talk about information that could move the share price, and when. Upload that policy, then check a staff update that mentions a result the market has not yet been told about. The check is designed to flag that passage and point to the part of the policy it touches.

The check is an AI reading of your documents and your draft. It is not legal advice, and a clean result is not clearance to publish.

It can miss a problem, and it can flag a passage that is fine. Anything with legal, regulatory or market consequences still needs sign-off from the right person in your organisation, such as your company secretary, legal counsel or disclosure officer.

It checks against the documents you upload, as they stood when you uploaded them. Keeping them current is up to you.

One check reads up to 120,000 characters across your documents, roughly 20,000 words. Each document is read in full or left out whole, oldest first, and if any are left out the result names them.

Only upload documents you are allowed to share with an outside service. If a policy is marked confidential, check your organisation’s rules before you upload it.

Throughline stores the text of each document in your account. No other Throughline user can see it, including an administrator of your organisation’s account.

Your documents are sent to our AI provider, Anthropic, when you run a check against them, and at no other time. The AI disclosure explains how that processing works.

You can delete any document here at any time. A deleted document cannot be recovered.