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Market intelligence for financial services.

Most competitive signals tell you about something that already happened. Financial services is the industry with a large exception: a rule with an effective date is a dated, checkable event in the future, and it applies to every firm in a category at once.

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The problem

A regulatory obligation with an eighteen-month lead time creates budget, deadlines and a buying committee across an entire category of firms, and it is announced in a register almost nobody in a commercial team reads. By the time it reaches a trade publication, the firms that read it first have already started.

What arrives
  • Rules with effective dates, mapped to the firms in your watch list that they apply to
  • The filings behind each one, linked, so a claim in a meeting can be opened
  • Hiring that follows an obligation, which is the earliest visible sign of a budget
  • A dated trail per firm rather than a single current snapshot
  • Excel, CSV, PDF or slides of any of it (Excel only on Starter)
Who does the work

The agents on the job, in the order they work

  1. 01 · Regulator

    Reads regulatory registers and filings for rules that name an effective date, which is the rare signal that points forwards rather than backwards.

  2. 02 · Mapper

    Works out which of the companies you watch a rule actually applies to, so an obligation becomes a list of accounts rather than a headline.

  3. 03 · Recruiter

    Watches for the hiring that follows an obligation, which is usually the first sign a firm has started work on it.

  4. 04 · Verifier

    Checks each finding against a second independent source before it reaches a brief, and says so when it cannot.

What it does not do
  • It reports what a rule says and when it takes effect. It does not interpret whether a specific firm is compliant, and no software should.
  • Coverage follows the registers that carry a rule. A jurisdiction whose regulator does not maintain an open register is thinner, and the workspace says which.
  • Nothing here is legal or compliance advice, and it is not a substitute for the firm’s own counsel.
Which plan

Every lens is available on every plan. Starter watches 10 companies, checked weekly; Growth watches 40, every six hours; Enterprise watches 60.

Questions

What people ask

Which registers does it read?
Securities filings and the government registers that carry rules with effective dates, including the US Federal Register and the equivalent registers in the jurisdictions a workspace covers. Every finding carries the document it came from, so the source is never a matter of trust.
Is a regulatory change really a sales signal?
It is the most reliable one in this industry, for a structural reason: it has a date, it applies to a defined set of firms, and it creates work somebody has to be paid to do. Almost no other signal has all three.
Can it tell me whether a firm is already compliant?
No. It can tell you the obligation exists, when it bites, whom it applies to and whether that firm has started hiring against it. Whether they are compliant is not something open evidence states.
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