NWE Tax Operations Platform

AI-native tax operations for financial institutions

A connected platform for FATCA, CRS / CRS 2.0, CARF, QI and withholding — designed for Human Experts and governed AI Agent Operators.

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  • InstitutionalTax operations for regulated institutions
  • AI-nativeAgents designed in from the foundation
  • GovernedHuman and agent operators, one control model
Reference architecture Governed environment
01Source systems & data
  • Core banking
  • Onboarding / KYC
  • Custody & TA
  • Excel
  • APIs
02NWE Tax Operations Platform
  • Customer & entity state
  • Documentation
  • Regulatory assessment
  • Exceptions
  • Reporting
  • Evidence & audit
03Operators
Human OperatorsJudgement · approval
AI Agent OperatorsInvestigation · execution
04Controlled regulatory outcomes
  • Reporting & filings
  • Remediation
  • Withholding
  • Audit evidence

The platform

One platform across the tax operations lifecycle

Customer, documentation, regulatory and reporting state stays connected across the lifecycle — every stage works from the same facts and history.

  1. 01

    Onboard

    Customers, entities and relationships.

  2. 02

    Validate

    Documentation and classifications.

  3. 03

    Monitor

    Changes in circumstances.

  4. 04

    Assess

    Status under each regime.

  5. 05

    Resolve

    Exceptions and remediation.

  6. 06

    Report

    Prepared, reconciled, filed.

  7. 07

    Correct

    Amendments with full history.

Connected state across every stage

  • Customer & entity
  • Documentation
  • Regulatory
  • Reporting

Capabilities

One environment across tax operations

Each capability works on shared data and shared evidence — not a separate tool with its own copy of the truth.

  • Onboarding & Due Diligence

    • Customers, entities, accounts and relationships
    • Classifications and controlling persons

  • Self-Certification & Documentation

    • Self-Certification
    • W-8 / W-9
    • Reasonableness and validation

  • W-8IMY & Withholding

    • Intermediary structures
    • Withholding statements
    • Allocation and documentation support

  • Ongoing Compliance

    • Changes in circumstances
    • Monitoring
    • Evidence and remediation

  • Exceptions & Operations

    • Investigation
    • Prioritisation
    • Controlled correction workflows

  • Reporting

    • FATCA, CRS / CRS 2.0 and CARF
    • Filing obligations
    • Reconciliation

  • Corrections & History

    • Amendments
    • Historical reconstruction
    • Prior-period impact

  • Connectivity

    • Excel and APIs
    • Source-system integration
    • Partial and periodic deliveries

AI Agent Operators

Not a chatbot. Operational AI agents.

AI Agent Operators work inside the platform rather than sit outside it as a conversational layer. They use the same governed data, tools and controls as human specialists — and every action is attributable, validated and auditable.

Traditional AI Conversational. Outside the system of record.
  1. User
  2. Chatbot
  3. Answer
NWE agentic model Operational. Inside the system of record.
  1. Evidence / events
  2. AI Agent Operator
  3. Governed platform tools
  4. Validation · permission · approval
  5. Action or escalation
  6. Auditable outcome

AI Agent Operators are users of the platform — not bots automating screens.

What AI Agent Operators do

  • Investigate exceptions
  • Reconcile evidence
  • Review documentation
  • Identify inconsistencies
  • Prepare changes
  • Perform regulatory research
  • Monitor deadlines
  • Prepare reporting activity
  • Reconcile data and reporting populations
  • Escalate uncertainty
  • Hand work to human specialists
  • Carry out expressly authorised actions

Representative specialist capabilities

  • Tax Operations
  • Documentation Review
  • Change in Circumstances
  • Exception Resolution
  • Regulatory Research
  • Reporting Readiness
  • Reconciliation
  • Filing Review
  • Compliance Investigation

Specialisms are configured as roles and skills within one platform — not separate applications, and not necessarily one agent each.

AI Agent Operator · Documentation Review Entity account — change in circumstances
Prepare
  1. Event receivedNew US mailing address on entity account
  2. Evidence reconciledAccount record, W-8BEN-E, onboarding file
  3. Inconsistency identifiedAddress conflicts with certified status
  4. Regulatory context attachedChange-in-circumstances requirements
  5. Change preparedDocumentation request and status review
  6. Awaiting approvalRouted to Tax Operations specialist
Authority: prepare only Evidence-linked Fully logged Illustrative

Autonomy model

Automation matched to authority

Autonomy is extended progressively and explicitly — process by process, action by action. Every level operates inside the same control layer.

  1. Level 01

    Assist

    Investigates, gathers evidence and recommends.

    Human roleDecides and acts

  2. Level 02

    Prepare

    Prepares changes, remediation and reporting for approval.

    Human roleReviews and approves

  3. Level 03

    Execute

    Carries out expressly authorised actions within set permissions.

    Human roleGrants and monitors

  4. Level 04

    Autonomous

    Runs defined processes end-to-end, escalating uncertainty.

    Human roleSupervises and resolves

Persistent control layer Applies at every level of autonomy
  • PermissionsExplicit, scoped grants
  • EvidenceEvery action evidence-linked
  • ValidationRules tested before change
  • ApprovalHuman sign-off where required
  • AuditComplete, attributable history
  • EscalationUncertainty routed to people

“Greater intelligence never independently grants greater authority.”

Capability can grow continuously. Authority is granted only in explicit, governed steps — and can be withdrawn.
Capability versus authority Agent capability rises as a continuous curve. Granted authority rises only in discrete steps at explicit grant points, from Assist to Prepare to Execute to Autonomous, and always remains below capability. Assist Prepare Execute Autonomous Agent capability Granted authority Explicit grant

Why it’s different

Expertise first. Agents by design.

  1. 01Human tax expertise defines the operating model.
  2. 02The platform encodes the controls and evidence.
  3. 03AI Agent Operators increasingly perform the operational work.
  1. 01

    Tax Ops SME-led

    Designed around more than a decade of direct tax and Tax Operations experience.

  2. 02

    Agent-native

    AI Agent Operators are foundational to the operating model rather than added later.

  3. 03

    Longitudinal regulatory state

    The platform preserves how customer facts, relationships, documentation, assessments and reporting evolve over time.

  4. 04

    Evidence-linked operations

    Decisions and actions can be tied back to evidence, regulatory context and authority.

  5. 05

    Institutional by design

    Built for banks, custodians, investment managers, fund administrators, trustees, service providers and multi-entity operations.

Regulatory scope

Shared data. Distinct regulatory treatment.

Customer, account and documentation data is maintained once — then assessed under the rules, classifications and obligations of each regime.

  • FATCAUS account identification and reporting
  • CRSOECD automatic exchange of information
  • CRS 2.0Amended scope and due diligence
  • CARFCrypto-Asset Reporting Framework
  • QIQualified Intermediary obligations
  • WithholdingRates, statements and reconciliation
Shared data foundation Customers · Entities · Accounts · Relationships · Documentation · Evidence · History

The operating model

Human expertise. AI execution. Clear accountability.

  1. Direct

    Human SMEs

    Regulatory judgement, interpretation, policy and consequential decisions

  2. Govern

    NWE Platform

    Data, evidence, regulatory state, workflow, authority and audit

  3. Perform

    AI Agent Operators

    Investigation, preparation, monitoring, execution and escalation at scale

“The opportunity is not simply to improve compliance software. It is to change how tax operations work is performed.”

Contact

Rethinking tax operations for an agentic future

NWE is creating an institutional environment where regulatory expertise, evidence and AI Agent Operators work together under explicit control.

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