Employees do not open the policy portal before they type. They act on instinct, at speed, under pressure. SideNote puts the relevant standard in front of them the instant it matters, and gives ethics, compliance, and people leaders a measurable read on how the organization actually behaves.
A code of conduct that sits in a handbook does nothing at the moment someone is tempted to cut a corner. The conflict of interest, the improper gift, the harsh word to a colleague: each one happens in a message, in seconds, long before anyone reads a quarterly report. SideNote puts the standard where the decision is actually made.
Soliciting a personal benefit in exchange for a business decision may violate your gifts and conflict-of-interest policy. Route vendor hospitality through the approved process.
Traditional programs rely on annual training and after-the-fact review. By the time a violation surfaces in a report, the message is already part of the record. SideNote works differently. Our agent runs at the OS level on company-owned devices, applies your code of conduct in real time, and gives ethics, compliance, and people leaders a measurable read on how the organization behaves.
Our OS-level agent monitors communications across every application on the device: email, chat, documents, and beyond. Conduct risk is flagged in real time, while the employee is still composing.
Our conduct cognitive model is developed in collaboration with ethics, compliance, and employment practitioners, tuned to how conflicts, gifts, and workplace conduct issues actually read in a message.
When risk is detected, the employee sees the specific policy at stake, why the language creates exposure, and the approved path forward. Every flag is a learning moment, not a reprimand.
Ethics, compliance, and people leaders see adherence trends by department and topic, never individual messages. You get a defensible read on culture and conduct without surveillance.
Most tools start with a general-purpose language model and bolt on a keyword list. SideNote takes a different approach. We collaborate with ethics, compliance, and employment practitioners to build a model that reasons about intent and context the way an experienced conduct reviewer would, not the way a filter matches words.
The result is a model tuned to your policy: it weighs the relationship, the ask, and the authority behind a message, then maps what it sees to the specific standard in your code of conduct. That reasoning runs in real time, across every message in your organization.
SideNote's conduct cognitive model covers the everyday ways a code of conduct is tested, developed in collaboration with compliance and employment practitioners and tuned to your policy. Below are six areas where conduct risk shows up most often; your custom lexicon extends coverage to the rules specific to your organization.
Detect self-dealing, undisclosed relationships, and quid pro quo arrangements where personal benefit meets business authority.
Flag solicited or excessive vendor hospitality that crosses the line your gifts policy draws.
Identify funds, data, or resources being used improperly or for purposes outside the business.
Catch exclusionary language, harsh tone, and incivility, and coach a better version before it lands.
Monitor for sharing of restricted or non-public information outside the people entitled to see it.
Load your company-specific rules and restricted terms so coaching reflects your handbook, not a generic list.
SideNote's conduct cognitive model spans the full range of your code of conduct.
Install the SideNote agent on company-owned devices. It operates at the OS level to monitor all applications, with optional plugins for Outlook, Gmail, Slack, and Teams that enable deeper protection, with no workflow disruption.
As employees type across any channel, SideNote's conduct cognitive model analyzes content in real time. When risk is detected, the employee receives immediate coaching that names the policy at stake and the approved way forward.
Employees see clear explanations tied to your code of conduct, so they understand exactly why their language creates exposure. Over time, your organization builds genuine conduct literacy and a healthier culture.
SideNote's conduct cognitive model was built in collaboration with ethics, compliance, and employment practitioners, then tuned to your policy. It gives compliance and people leaders a credible, measurable way to bring the code of conduct to life.
Our conduct cognitive model is developed in collaboration with ethics, compliance, and employment practitioners, grounded in real policy and workplace conduct standards.
Edge agents plus a centralized engine, all running on your infrastructure. Communications never leave your network. Nothing is transmitted to the cloud.
Employees are coached on conduct risk while they are still composing. Not after the fact. Not in a weekly report. In real time, so the conduct itself is avoided.
A custom lexicon lets you load company-specific rules, restricted terms, and outdated jargon, so coaching reflects your handbook and your values rather than a one-size-fits-all list.
Regulators increasingly ask whether a compliance program actually detects and deters. SideNote produces anonymized adherence trends, the kind of proof a compliance function can take to the board.
Every alert teaches employees why their language creates risk and how to say the same thing safely. Leadership sees anonymized trends, never individual messages.
SideNote's conduct dashboard gives ethics, compliance, and people leaders real-time visibility into culture and conduct across the organization, without exposing individual communications.
See how SideNote brings your code of conduct to life at the moment of the message, and gives ethics, compliance, and people leaders a real measure of organizational health.
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