Tier 1 — Legal text and official regulation pages
Used for dates, scope language, and primary regulatory concepts.
Methodology and trust
Regulatory updates based on official sources with clear no-legal-advice boundaries.
RegulationsOffice explains regulatory updates, prepares first-review evidence questions, and routes serious work into governed review. It does not replace legal counsel or certify compliance.
When to involve counsel
- applicability determinations.
- formal compliance positions.
- regulated filings or legal commitments.
Source tiers
Tier 2 — Official guidance, agency pages, and implementation notes
Used to explain practical evidence and review-process implications.
Tier 3 — Consultations, RSS/feed updates, and public news from official bodies
Used to detect changes that should become notes, deadline-watch items, or checklist updates.
Tier 4 — Secondary context
Used only as a prompt for manual review, never as the sole basis for a claim.
Source-review workflow
Capture the official source
Record the source URL, source family, date checked, regulation lane, and the exact operational signal being watched.
Separate fact from interpretation
Dates, official scope language, and public guidance stay separate from hypotheses, buyer objections, and questions for counsel.
Turn signal into a first output
The signal becomes a note, checklist prompt, deadline-watch item, source register entry, or request-brief question.
Gate risky claims
Any legal conclusion, compliance guarantee, named-target claim, or sensitive evidence request is blocked from public copy.
Example output shape
Source register
Official source, date checked, regulation lane, scope assumption, affected team, and open applicability questions.
Evidence checklist
Non-sensitive evidence prompts first, with owner, status, gap, and secure-handoff need separated from legal conclusion.
Buyer brief
Plain-English summary, why it matters now, smallest practical first action, and where professional review is required.
Editorial gates
- source link and date checked before publication.
- plain-English summary avoids legal conclusions.
- who-may-care stays sector/role based, not named-target based.
- checklist prompts request non-sensitive evidence first.
- paid work starts only after a scoped brief, monitoring setup, or evidence-pack support is accepted.