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Using Snapshot

Welcome. This section is for the person who keeps tabs on regulatory change for a living — a compliance officer at a bank, a regulatory-affairs analyst at an asset manager, a head of compliance at a fintech, an in-house counsel at a hedge fund, or a horizon scanner inside a law firm. You know which regulators matter to you. What you want is a way to stop bookmarking thirty different websites every Friday and start each week with a structured briefing of what is on the horizon, weighted by likelihood and impact.

That is what Regulatory Snapshot does. You configure your jurisdictions, your topic areas, and a time horizon. The app runs an AI-powered scan of the global regulatory landscape, pulling from primary regulator sites, supranational bodies, and authoritative secondary commentary. A few minutes later you have a dashboard — a heatmap, a timeline, a written executive narrative, trend cards, the underlying evidence — and a Studio for turning any of it into a tearsheet, infographic, audio briefing, slide deck, or PDF.

None of these pages assume you know how it works under the hood. If you are technical and you want to read about the API, that lives in API for developers. The “Using” track is product-first.

The five things you will learn

  1. How to run your first scan — from sign-in to a finished dashboard, with a worked example.
  2. How to choose jurisdictions and topics well — the two big knobs, with practical decision rules by role.
  3. How to read the dashboard — heatmap, timeline, trends, briefing, detail panel, sources.
  4. How to turn a scan into deliverables in Studio — tearsheets, infographics, audio briefings, slide decks, PDFs.
  5. How to track what’s changed over time — running the same configuration on a cadence and reading the changes panel.

A walked-through scenario

Suppose you work in compliance at a UK asset manager. You want to track AML / KYC and sustainable-finance changes across the UK, the EU, and Switzerland on a 12-month horizon — a typical “what should our compliance committee know about for the next year” brief.

You open the scan wizard, click the EU+ region preset (which selects UK, EU, and Switzerland in one shot), tick AML / KYC and ESG / Sustainable Finance under regulatory areas, pick 12 months as the horizon, and run the scan. A toast appears in the corner; you keep working. About four minutes later the toast says the scan is complete and you click View.

The dashboard fills with your data. The heatmap shows hot cells where AML enforcement is converging across the three jurisdictions. The executive briefing opens with Bottom Line Up Front and walks through the priorities. The timeline shows three ESG consultations closing in the next quarter. You head to Studio, pick a tearsheet style, and forty seconds later you have a one-page PDF for the head of compliance. You generate an audio briefing in the background — five minutes of audio for the train home — and forward the tearsheet on. That is the loop. Configure, scan, read, share. (For a precise definition of what a scan produces, see What is a snapshot?.)

The mental model

A useful analogy is to picture a small team working for you in the background. A researcher reads regulator websites, work programmes, and consultation papers. An analyst synthesises what was found into a structured briefing — the heatmap cells, the priorities, the trends, the executive narrative. An editor cleans up the prose. A change-tracker compares this scan against your last one, so on your second run you see what is new or changed rather than re-reading what you already knew.

You drive the team by answering three questions in the wizard — where (jurisdictions), what (topic areas), when (time horizon) — and pressing the run button. The team does the rest. There are deeper knobs in the Advanced drawer for the curious, but you do not need them for a good first run.

What this is not

Regulatory Snapshot is AI-assisted analysis, not a substitute for legal advice. Every briefing carries a disclaimer reminding you to verify findings against primary sources before you act on them. Use it to spot what to look at, not as the final word — the View source link on every item card takes you to the regulator’s own document so you can cite the canonical text.

[!NOTE] The app is at its most useful when scope is curated. A scan with every jurisdiction and every topic ticked is technically possible but will be slower, more expensive, and editorially diluted. Two to five jurisdictions and two to four topic areas is the sweet spot for most users.

Where to go next

Your first scan