Aviation Compliance ISV Cuts Aircraft Certification Audits from Weeks to Days with Claude on AWS Bedrock
At a glance
Aircraft cannot fly charter, get financed, or change hands until every airworthiness directive and inspection requirement is proven complete. For this FAA-regulated aviation records company, that proof has meant weeks of manual, page-by-page research through non-standardized maintenance reports.
The company engaged New Math Data to build an AI-native compliance module inside its platform. Using Claude on AWS Bedrock, the system extracts maintenance data from semi-structured reports and links every finding back to a cited source document.
Conformity audits that industry benchmarks place at roughly 30 days now run in a third of that time, with full audit traceability. The company moves from a records archive to a compliance automation platform, with a roadmap now targeting 100,000 to 200,000 pages of aircraft records automated per month.
Industry
Use Case
Intelligent Document Processing, Compliance & Governance, Knowledge Management
Solution implemented
- Claude on AWS Bedrock classifies incoming reports and extracts structured compliance fields automatically.
- Amazon Textract performs document OCR, with caching in place to control per-page processing cost.
- Amazon OpenSearch indexes extracted and raw OCR data to power citation-level retrieval for findings.
- AWS Step Functions orchestrates parallelized, fault-tolerant document processing with built-in confidence scoring.
- Production benchmarking evaluated six Bedrock models, reaching up to 96.6% classification accuracy in testing.
The value equation
- Cuts a historically 30-day manual aircraft conformity audit down to a matter of days.
- Gives every extracted compliance finding a traceable citation back to its exact source page.
- Moves the company from a passive records archive to an active compliance automation platform.
- Opens a jointly funded AWS roadmap to automate 100,000 to 200,000 pages of records monthly.
Company Snapshot
An aviation technology company providing FAA-compliant aircraft records and logbook software for business and general aviation operators.
Location
United States
Customer Situation
An aircraft cannot go on a charter certificate, sell, or get financed until every airworthiness directive and inspection requirement is proven complete, a process called conformity. This company’s customers did this by hand: pulling paper and PDF records, matching each requirement to a document, and re-keying findings, a process industry benchmarks put at roughly 30 days per aircraft.
The company had digitized the records, but the compliance research on top of them, extracting requirements from inconsistent maintenance-tracking exports and proving each finding against a source, stayed manual and reliant on brittle, rule-based extraction that broke with every report format change.
Across FAA-regulated aviation, this same bottleneck slows every operator, MRO, and broker trying to certify, sell, or finance an aircraft.
NMD Solution
NMD reviewed the company’s compliance workflow and found that conformity research, not records storage, was the real constraint on speed and scale. The solution required an AI extraction and citation pipeline on AWS Bedrock: Textract for document OCR, Claude for report classification and structured field extraction, OpenSearch for retrieval, and a Step Functions workflow with per-batch error handling and confidence scoring, all integrated directly into the company’s production platform.
What We Delivered
Customers upload a maintenance status report and the platform automatically classifies it, extracts structured requirements and compliance findings, and generates a research project with every field traceable to its exact source page. Parallelized processing, validation scoring, and full documentation are live in production, cutting a historically 30-day manual conformity audit down to a matter of days.
An operations leader at the company, on the manual baseline: “30 days is a pretty common number we hear for how long does it take you to do a conformity project.” On the value of speed: “the faster you can complete these projects, the faster your aircraft can earn money.”
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