Strategy AI agent · Regulatory horizon
Regulatory Horizon Scanning AI Agent
Enter each instrument at the stage it has actually reached — proposed, applying, stayed, vacated or withdrawn — with the date and source that establishes it, and hold it for a named owner.
- Typical delivery
- 4–6 weeks
- Deployment
- Your stack
- Named owner
- Stage, not feed
- After launch
- Agent Care
What this agent does
Records the stage, never the meaning
In
- 01
An instrument is proposed, and it sits at proposed until an adopting release appears.
- 02
A comment window closes, and the closing itself moves the instrument no further along.
Reason
- 03
A rule is vacated, and the register reverts to whatever the vacatur leaves operative.
- 04
A stay is refused, and the vacatur stands rather than the rule an industry still quotes.
- 05
An instrument enters into force, and the day it starts applying can sit years further out.
Decide
- 06
An application date is deferred, and that deferral is itself an instrument with a date.
- 07
A guideline is withdrawn, and nothing fills the space until a replacement is published.
Out
- 08
An LkSG reporting duty stays law while BAFA closes the submission portal on 3 September 2025.
- 09
Execute write actions only inside the approval boundaries agreed during implementation.
Product statement
Watching, staging and re-confirmation belong to the agent. A named owner accepts an instrument into the register, and counsel rules on what it means.
Example workflow
One instrument, source to acceptance
- 1Instrument change detectedOfficial gazettes, agency dockets, court dockets or supervisory bulletins
- 2Instrument context assembledThe instrument, the body standing behind it, the regime it belongs to and the stage its source establishes
- 3Register entry draftedThe stage, the source under it, the gaps and currency
- 4Controls appliedSource checks, duplicate-instrument checks, stage checks and currency confidence
No human action required
Stages 1 to 4 run unaided, and no instrument is accepted at any of them — the agent is only staging, and the owner enters at the currency gate.
Passes to the register owner for acceptance.
Adds a regulatory counsel read first.
Regulatory counsel review
The entry is held with its stage, its gaps and the sources they came from.
Accept · Append source · Send to regulatory counsel
Accepted — by the named register owner
- 6Register and watchlist records updatedOnly where write access and records policy allow it
- 7Outcome evaluatedSource currency, stage coverage, counsel corrections and what review found
Corrections
Every regulatory counsel correction is counted in the evaluation.
What should not run autonomously
Human approval stays in control
Outside the boundary — human approval required
8 items
- Deciding that an instrument applies to this company.
- Ruling on what a vacated rule leaves in force.
- Treating a proposal as a live obligation.
- Accepting an instrument into the register unaided.
Automation boundary
Agent acts unaided
- ✓Watch the configured official sources for each regime.
- ✓Record the stage an instrument reached, with its date and its source.
- ✓Re-confirm currency on the cadence each regime sets.
- ✓Flag a stage change and route the entry to the owner who holds it.
No instrument is accepted and no digest goes out except by a named person, on approval.
- Judging whether a deferral changes your plan.
- Telling a board that the estate is compliant.
- Setting the cadence at which a regime is watched.
- Changes to the register, the watchlist or the digest.
Example output
One register entry, annotated
Our shipped market-research agent traces commercial sources for an insights function; this one tracks instruments and the stage each has reached, for a strategy team deciding whether to act.
Register entry · single instrument
Illustrative example- Stage
- Deforestation, Regulation (EU) 2025/2650
- Recorded as
- In force, and not yet applying
- Instrument
- Stage recorded, not judged
- Source of record
- Application from 30 December 2026
- Confidence
- Held unaccepted
- Held for
- The register owner, by name
As received
Taken from the Official Journal text and the watch record — it reaches no further than those sources.
What the record holds
- Official Journal text
- Stage and its date
- Last currency check
Why nothing is settled here
Whether a deferred rule changes your plan is a judgement for counsel.
What the score decides
Below the configured threshold an entry picks up a counsel read before the owner sees it.
Action
AcceptAppend sourceSend to regulatory counselValue
Where AI adds value
The same four claims, placed at the point in the workflow where each one applies.
Where the value lands
Value 01 – 04
Every instrument
From the source that establishes it
Where the stage is used
No general obligation binds an ordinary company to monitor regulatory change: this page shows what was watched and the stage each instrument reached, and it settles nothing beyond that.
Proposed is not in force
Release 33-11414 was announced on 5 May 2026 and its comments closed on 6 July 2026, with no adopting release since, so Form 10-Q stands.
What was checked, and not found
No duty of general application to scan the horizon was located in statute or rule; no penalty figure is published on this page; and the OCC heightened standards and the fund compliance rule were not read in primary text, so neither is cited.
Build an evidence trail
The instrument, the stage it has reached and the owner who accepted it stay together.
Integrations
Typical integrations
Five system groups connect to the same agent. Which of them are in scope is decided in discovery.
Gazettes and official registers
- Federal Register
- EUR-Lex
- Proposals and adoptions
Courts and appellate dockets
- Docket entries
- opinions
- Vacaturs, stays and remands
Regulators and supervisors
- Agency bulletins
- portals
- Guidance, withdrawals and pauses
Agent
Regulatory horizon register
- Watches the sources
- Records the stage
- Holds for the owner
Legislatures and parliaments
- Bill trackers
- legislative feeds
- Bills, adoptions and repeals
Observability & evaluation
- OpenTelemetry
- Langfuse
- Supported monitoring/evaluation sources
Integration availability depends on the client's existing systems and API access.
Agent controls
Six vaults between the model and the owner
Six vaults opened one inside the next, the last the heaviest. What is inside is set out in the map below.
L6 · Outermost — last line of defence
Inward → L1 · closest to the model
- L1 – L2
- Test whether an entry may stand
- L3
- Leaves the acceptance to a named person
- L4 – L5
- Keep the instrument and the stage behind it
- L6
- Falls back to instrument listing when signals degrade
How Nestack evaluates it
Evaluate the whole assembly — not only the register entry that comes out.
Coverage runs the whole depth of the workflow, and every layer is cut by slice.
Surface — the digest a strategy team reads
- E1Final-output evaluationDid the entry record the stage its source actually establishes?
- E2Step-level evaluationDid the agent read the right source, the right instrument and the live text?
- E3Tool evaluationDid it read and write the correct register entry and the correct stage?
- E4Confidence calibrationDo low-confidence entries actually attract more counsel corrections?
- E5Slice evaluationHow does performance change across specific regimes?
- E6Business outcomeHow many entries needed a correction before the owner accepted?
Floor — the decision the company answers for
Failure modes
Where each failure originates in the agent
Seven failure modes, each fixed at the stage where it first surfaces.
Agent lifecycle
Direction of processing →
01 · Retrieval
1 mode
- MI-03
Stale source read
The text read is not the version now in force.
Stage gathers
The regimes, the sources, the dates and stages
02 · Reasoning
2 modes
- MI-04
Stage asserted, not sourced
A stage is recorded with no source under it.
- MI-06
Vacated rule read as live
A struck-down rule is worked as the operative one.
Stage proposes
The instruments, their stages and currency
03 · Tool / write
2 modes
- MI-02
Stale entry passed forward
An entry moves on without the counsel read.
- MI-05
Stage bound to wrong instrument
The date is filed against a different measure.
Stage writes
Only where write access and approval policy allow it
04 · Output
1 mode
- MI-01
Accepted, source unrecorded
The entry shows acceptance but not the text under it.
Stage returns
The entry an owner accepts and a board reads
05 · Change / Version
1 mode
- MI-07
Silent stage drift
A source updates while the register keeps the old stage.
Stage tracks
Model, prompt, staging rules and stage fields
- Sev-1 · an instrument accepted on no source
- Sev-2 · a vacated rule reaches the digest
- Sev-3 · source degrades, entry held back
Affected slices
Litigated rules absorb the corrections
A regime-level currency figure can read clean while litigated and vacated rules carry most of the rework. Nestack reports the correction rate by regime, not only in total.
Slice performance — reported separately, not only in aggregate
Illustrative example| Slice | Failure rate | Lift | Lift vs. threshold | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litigated and vacated rules | 7.4% | 3.6× | Review | |
| Proposed rules and consultations | 5.3% | 2.6× | Review | |
| EU regulations in force | 3.2% | 1.6× | Watch | |
| US federal final rules | 1.6% | 0.8× | Normal |
Bar: correction-rate lift vs. US federal final rule baseline · scale 0–4.0× · tick marks the 2.0× review threshold
2 of 4 slices over threshold
Evidence-linked improvement
What a stale stage costs
A loop ends when the vacated rule read as live has become a case the next release must pass. That suite is what the next digest issued is measured against.
Improvement cycle · five stages
Switchback — the path turns at Improve and returns at Learn
- 01
Detect
Correction rate rises on litigated and vacated rules.
- 02
Diagnose
The click-to-cancel rule a renewals plan still assumed, vacated on 8 July 2025, is read back until a single cause remains.
- 03
Improve
Number the change; the instruments that drove it are filed underneath it.
- 04
Verify
Each touched instrument case is run once more, and one red holds it back.
- 05
Learn
It stays on as a standing test, and the staging rules move alongside it.
Learn → Detect
The return edge. The next digest is measured against a suite one case longer.
Typical build scope
Twelve workstreams across six weeks
The build scope read against the delivery timeline. Week structure follows the six-week plan — discovery, sources, register assembly, evaluation, integration, then production validation and handover.
Workstream
Week 1Week 2Week 3Week 4Week 5Week 6
- 01Acceptance-boundary and watchlist-coverage work.Week 1
- 02Gazette, docket and bulletin sources.Week 1, Week 2
- 03Instrument-to-stage and currency-cadence mapping.Week 1, Week 2
- 04Instrument source ingestion.Week 2
- 05Instrument, stage and date binding.Week 2, Week 3
- 06Currency scoring and review routing.Week 3
- 07Owner acceptance workflow.Week 3, Week 4
- 08Register and watchlist integration.Week 5
- 09Stage and currency cases.Week 4, Week 5
- 10Guardrails and staging controls.Week 4
- 11Instrument-trail instrumentation.Week 5, Week 6
- 12Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover.Week 6
12 workstreams · 6 weeks · bar shows the weeks a workstream is active — several run in parallel
Final scope and sequence confirmed in discovery
Engagement tiers
What each tier includes
Rows are the capabilities named in each tier's scope. Higher tiers include everything below them.
| Capability✓ in scope · — not at this tier | PilotOne regime, one year | ProductionProduction register workflow | AdvancedMultiple regimes / jurisdictions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduced at Pilot | |||
| Stage assembly to your sources | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Register owner release | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Watched-instrument baseline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Introduced at Production | |||
| Reporting by regime | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Owner acceptance workflow in your systems | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approved write-back | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Official-source integration | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| Introduced at Advanced | |||
| Multi-jurisdiction registers | — | — | ✓ |
| Cross-regime digest packs | — | — | ✓ |
| Large watchlists | — | — | ✓ |
| Multi-jurisdiction staging controls | — | — | ✓ |
| Build price | From $5,000 | From $8,000 | Custom quote |
- Final build price
- Confirmed after discovery based on integrations, workflow complexity, instrument volume, approval controls and deployment requirements.
- Separate from build
- Build pricing is separate from recurring Agent Care, which covers managed monitoring, evaluations, incidents and verified improvements after launch.
What we need from you
What you bring, and what we build with it
Each input maps to a piece of build scope and a week in the delivery timeline.
You bring
We build with it
01Your regimes and the sources you already trust
→Source mapping and instrument capture
Week 102Representative gazette, docket and bulletin records
→Source binding, stage logic and the register baseline
Week 203Your standing watchlist and the owner it names
→Regime mapping, cadence binding and the automation boundary
Week 104Access to relevant APIs, feeds or exports
→Gazette, docket and bulletin source assessment, then integration setup
Week 205Digests you would not want relied on
→Currency cases and the evaluation run
Week 406What no horizon digest may establish
→Currency scoring, review routing, guardrails and release controls
Week 307A named owner who accepts an instrument into the register
→Release to the register owner, then pilot and production validation
Weeks 5–6
Nothing else is required
Deployment, documentation and Agent Care handover are ours.
Delivery timeline
Four phases across six weeks
You are reading effort, not spacing, which is why the fifth of these bands has two phases inside it.
Phase
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
- DiscoveryW1
- BuildW2 – W3
- EvaluateW4 – W5
- Pilot & LaunchW5 – W6
Week focus
W1Register workflow discovery, regime mapping and the automation boundary
W2Source integration and the watched-instrument baseline
W3Stage assembly, currency logic and release controls
W4Evaluation suite, currency cases and failure-mode testing
W5Docket integration, pilot instruments and targeted corrections
W6One legislative year run under the regulatory counsel, then Agent Care handover
- Reading the band
- Every band runs the weeks its own work is named for, and one of them doubles up because the work does.
- At the end of W6
- When the instrument record validates, Agent Care takes the agent on.
- Duration
- Six-week plan shown · typical delivery 4–6 weeks depending on scope confirmed in discovery.
Next step · Strategy AI agent
Build a horizon register around the rule your plan still assumes is law.
Show us one instrument and the source that fixes its stage. Which regime puts a general duty to scan on you? None does: the nearest analogues, 17 CFR 275.206(4)-7 and FINRA Rule 3130, reach investment advisers and a member firm CEO, never an ordinary company.
- Typical delivery
- 4–6 weeks
- Deployment
- Your watchlist
- Named owner
- Stage, not feed
- After launch
- Agent Care available
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