Your checklist for a complete Compliance Week

It's officially Compliance Week, and at this point (we hope) your plans are confirmed. The scenarios are scheduled. Your department message is drafted. Someone ordered donuts for the office.

Still, it's a busy week to be the person and team everyone turns to, and the week usually includes more than any one plan covers. So we put the whole thing on one page: a checklist of everything we see compliance programs run during the week and the week after, from the kickoff to the recap.

If there's anything left off your list, we've got you covered. Tick the boxes below for what you've already got prepared or for whatever doesn't apply. Leave the rest unchecked. The button at the bottom builds you a kit for exactly those unchecked items: a ready-to-paste AI prompt for each one, tailored to your company once you fill in the brackets, plus the employee messages, trivia, and manager talking points we've already written where they fit.

Why the details matter

Compliance Week is a celebration and a live test of your program. Over five days you'll see how well your training lands with employees, whether people know how to speak up, and whether they trust what happens next.

Those are the same things the DOJ looks at when it evaluates whether a compliance program works in practice, and this is the easiest week of the year to collect evidence that yours does. Every item below is either a way to reach employees or a way to find out if you did.

The checklist

We partner with a lot of compliance teams, and we see a lot of Compliance Weeks. This list is an aggregate representation of the activities we see across those teams. Not every item fits every company. Tick what's done or not relevant; every item you leave unchecked gets its own AI prompt in your kit. Where we've already written the piece, that comes too.

A prompt for every box you leave unchecked

Some of those items take five minutes. Some take an evening you don't have this week. So every unchecked item gets an AI prompt built for it. Paste it into your company-approved tool, fill in the brackets with your names, channels, and policies, and you've got a draft that sounds like your company in a couple of minutes. Twenty-three prompts in all, from the leadership kickoff note to the hotline bump review after the week.

• Twenty-three AI prompts: one for each checklist item, from a leadership kickoff note and a speak-up explainer to a policy spotlight, a pulse survey, a leadership recap, and a frontline rewrite. Each one tells the tool what to write, what tone to use, and what not to invent, so the draft comes back usable.
• Copy that's already written, where it helps: five daily employee messages, a ten-question trivia round with answer key, two minutes of manager talking points, four poster lines, and a week planner. Each sits under its matching prompt, so you can use ours or make your own.

The part of the week that outlasts it

Most of this checklist is about reaching employees. The speak-up items are about what happens after they do, and that's the part the DOJ, your board, and your employees all judge you on long after the posters come down. If people hesitate to use the hotline, or your team spends more time managing the case management than investigating, that's worth fixing before next November.

It's why more compliance teams are choosing Ethena as their AI-native hotline. Ethena's Hotline & Case Management gives you a branded reporting portal in 25+ languages, AI that does the first pass on every case, and analytics that answer the board's questions without an export. Your team still makes every call. Want to see it on your own program? Let's talk.