Calculated Risk: What's New

The risk section at the top of the Entity page has been redesigned. Your entity's calculated risk, the factors behind it, and your team's own risk assessment now sit together at the top of the page -- with the same badge and the same colours everywhere you see risk in Strise.

Nothing has changed in how risk is calculated. Your risk categories, points, and thresholds work exactly as before -- this change is about showing the same information more clearly, with fewer clicks. If you're new to calculated risk, the Calculated Risk feature page covers the basics.

The Short Version

• One Calculated risk card. The total score, the risk class, and every risk factor that contributed points now live in a single card -- including your team's custom risk fields.
• The score breakdown follows the badge. Hover the risk class anywhere it appears in Strise and you get the full calculation, redesigned to be easier to read.
• Colours that are consistent everywhere. The risk class is now a coloured badge, and it looks the same across the whole product: the higher the risk, the warmer the colour.
• A dedicated Risk assessment card. The risk class your team decides, and when the entity is due next, now have their own card at the top of the Entity page.
• Your settings are untouched. Scores, categories, thresholds, and the highlighting colours you've configured all work exactly as before.

Why We Changed It

Calculated risk is one of the most used parts of Strise -- every user sees it, and many rely on it daily to decide where to spend their attention. With this redesign we wanted to fix three things:

1. Answering "why this risk class?" took too much digging. The reasoning behind a risk class is the most important part of it, and it should be visible at a glance, wherever you are in the app.
2. Risk looked different in different places. The risk class could appear as plain text in one view and styled differently in another. Consistency makes the product faster to read and easier to trust.
3. Your assessment belongs next to the information you assess. The Entity page is where you evaluate a customer, so the conclusion your team lands on -- the risk class you set, and when it should be looked at next -- now has a clear home there.

Before and After

The calculated risk card

Before, the risk summary spread the picture across separate boxes and tiles. You could see the calculated risk class and the number of hits per category, but the points behind the score -- the actual reasoning -- lived a hover away, and custom risk fields sat elsewhere on the page.

Now, one card does more with less. The risk class badge and total score sit at the top, with your team's thresholds drawn on a scale so you can see how close the entity is to the next class. Every risk factor is listed with the points it contributes -- factors without hits are summarised in one line so they don't take up space -- and your custom risk fields are answered directly in the card. At the bottom, a link takes you straight to your team's Calculated Risk Settings, where anyone can see how the score is put together (and those with permission can adjust it).

The score breakdown on hover

Before, hovering over the risk class showed the calculation as a plain-text list.

Now, the hover is still there -- we know it was well loved -- but redesigned to be cleaner and easier to read: the badge and total at the top, the factors that scored points below, and everything that didn't summarised in a single line. And because the same risk badge is used everywhere in Strise, you can hover it wherever it appears -- the Entity page, Portfolio, Monitoring -- and get the full calculation with zero clicks.

Colours that mean something

Before, the risk class was shown as plain text in most places.

Now, it's a coloured badge, and the colours are consistent across the whole product: the higher the risk, the warmer the colour. The lowest level is deliberately neutral -- "no risk found" should read as calm, not as a green stamp of approval.

One thing that has not changed: the highlighting colours you configure per risk factor in Calculated Risk Settings still apply exactly as you set them.

The Risk assessment card

Before, the risk class your team set and the next scheduled review lived inside the risk summary, next to the calculated values.

Now they have their own card -- Risk assessment -- at the top of the Entity page, showing the risk class your team has decided, who assessed the entity last and when, when it's due next, and the report from the previous assessment. This makes a clearer distinction between what Strise calculates for you and what your team concludes: the calculated risk informs, your assessment decides.

If Your Team Uses Reviews Today

Nothing changes in your workflow. Reviews work exactly as before, and your review triggers, four-eyes setup, and schedules are untouched. The Risk assessment card simply gives the risk class your team has set and the next scheduled review a more visible home on the Entity page -- same information, easier to find.

Looking Ahead: Assessments

For teams moving to Assessments -- the next generation of Review -- the Risk assessment card is where that work will live. Assessments answer the same need as Review: documenting and concluding on an entity's risk. The difference is that they sit directly on the Entity page, so you complete your assessment in the same place you see the information it's based on -- the ownership structure, screening results, and calculated risk are right there while you work.

An assessment works through the Entity page's tabs. As you confirm each part of the entity you have reviewed, the tab it belongs to is marked, so the tab strip shows which parts your team's assessment covers, which one you are on, and which you have finished. Tabs the assessment does not cover are left unmarked. Which parts an assessment asks for is set by your team's assessment policy, so the marked tabs differ between teams -- and a tab that holds more than one part is only marked as finished once you have confirmed all of them.

The move from Review to Assessments will happen gradually, team by team, and we'll reach out well before anything changes for you. Until then, everything described above works with Review exactly as it does today.

Questions?

You can read more about how the score is put together in Calculated Risk Settings, or reach out to us in the chat -- we're happy to walk your team through the changes.