The app at a glance
This section walks through the working surfaces of Regulatory Snapshot — the views you use to read a completed scan, follow the live regulator wire, audit where every finding came from, and manage your archive. One page per surface, each written as a walkthrough.
Everything in the app hangs off one object: the loaded snapshot — the saved result of a scan. Most views are different reads of that same snapshot; a few (the Feed, your Snapshots archive) stand outside it. If you have not run a scan yet, start with Your first scan; the app shows a curated sample dataset until your own results exist, and automatically loads your most recent snapshot on each visit.
This page is the map. It covers the navigation model, the shared chrome that appears on every tab, and where each deeper walkthrough lives.
The navigation model
The primary tab bar carries the five reading surfaces, in this order:
Overview · Briefing · Trends · Timeline · Studio
Everything else lives behind the More menu:
Feed · Sources · Snapshots · Scheduled (plus Map, and Graph when the loaded scan carries relationship-graph data)
Two things are deliberately not tabs:
- New Scan — the button at the top right opens the scan order form in place. See Your first scan.
- Scan Ready — a green pill that appears when a finished scan is waiting to be loaded. One click loads it; if several are waiting, it opens a picker.
The More menu also links out to the API and to this documentation site.
| Surface | What it is for | Walkthrough |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | The executive read: summary, deadlines, priorities, the pressure heatmap, and the Change Monitor | Overview |
| Briefing | The long-form analyst narrative, with citations and a chaptered audio edition | Briefing |
| Trends | Cross-jurisdiction patterns the scan identified | Trends |
| Timeline | Every dated item laned by jurisdiction on a zoomable horizon | Timeline |
| Studio | Turn the snapshot into artefacts — decks, briefs, audio and more | Studio |
| Feed | The global regulator wire, independent of any scan | Feed |
| Sources | The audit trail: provenance, verification and trust signals per item | Sources |
| Snapshots | Your archive — load, rename, re-scan, delete, and follow series | Snapshots |
| Scheduled | Recurring scans that run on a timetable | Scheduled scans |
The Briefing tab only appears when the loaded snapshot carries an executive narrative. If you load an older or lighter scan and Briefing vanishes from the bar, nothing is broken — that scan has no narrative to show.
Map and Graph
The two remaining More-menu surfaces are further readings of the loaded snapshot. Map plots the scan’s jurisdictions on a world map, each country shaded by the same severity-weighted scoring as the heatmap — click a country to open its items. Graph draws the snapshot’s relationship graph — nodes, edges and clusters — and joins the More menu only when the loaded scan carries graph data; Map is always there.
How the pieces fit
A scan produces a snapshot; the reading tabs are views of whichever snapshot is loaded; the archive is where snapshots live between sessions. The Feed is the one reading surface that does not depend on the loaded snapshot at all — it is the live wire of regulator announcements across every jurisdiction the platform tracks.
The shared chrome
Every tab sits inside the same shell. Three pieces are worth knowing before you read any single view.
The ticker strip
The mono line under the tab bar is a running readout of what you are looking at. On most tabs it reads:
ITEMS 24 · JUR 03 · HIGH-IMPACT 07 · DEADLINES 11 · ● SCAN 14-07-2026ITEMS and JUR count the items and jurisdictions currently in view; HIGH-IMPACT and DEADLINES appear only when non-zero; the trailing ● SCAN tag is the loaded scan’s date, in DD-MM-YYYY. The ticker re-tunes itself per tab — on Sources it carries trust statistics, on Snapshots it counts your archive, on Scheduled it shows the next run time. Each walkthrough notes its own variant.
Filters
The filter cluster offers three facets — Likelihood (Confirmed, Likely, Possible, Uncertain), Impact (High, Medium, Low) and Status (Effective, Implementation Phase, Final Rule, Consultation, Proposed). Each chip shows how many levels are selected (Impact 2/3); each dropdown has a per-facet CLEAR that resets that facet to everything.
Filters narrow the items of the loaded scan, so they only appear on item-scoped surfaces: Overview, Briefing, Trends, Timeline (and Map/Graph). On Feed, Studio, Sources, Snapshots and Scheduled the cluster hides — those surfaces are not item lists to be narrowed.
Even where the filter chips are visible, not everything re-filters. The heatmap and the Timeline recompute from the filtered items; the Briefing narrative and the Trends ledger are editorial output written at scan time and do not change as you toggle facets. If a count looks “stuck”, that is why.
The utility cluster
To the right of the filters:
- Export & Import — Import JSON, Export JSON, Export CSV, and (where the integration is enabled) sending the scan’s sources to NotebookLM. Studio owns the richer artefact lineup — see Studio.
- Language — switches the dashboard between English, Français, Deutsch, Español, Italiano, 中文 and 日本語. Editorial content is translated on demand; your choice persists across devices.
- Theme — light and dark. Also persisted per user.
- Account — profile and sign-out.
Every tab ends with the same footer band: the AI-generated-content disclaimer and a mono stamp of the product name, data mode and the loaded scan date. The data mode reads SAMPLE DATA (the built-in sample dataset, before any result of your own is loaded), LIVE DATA (a scan’s results streamed straight in) or CURRENT DATA (a saved snapshot loaded from the archive, including imported JSON).
Keyboard shortcuts
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
1–9 | Switch tabs |
R | Reset all filters |
Esc | Close any open menu, dropdown, filter sheet or the item-detail panel |
The digits follow the app’s internal tab order, which is close to — but not exactly — the visible bar-then-More order. 1 is always Overview; what a given number opens shifts when the loaded scan carries a conditional tab (with a Briefing present, 2 opens it and everything after moves down one).
On mobile
Below tablet width the tab bar becomes a scrollable pill row (the active pill centres itself), and the filter cluster collapses into a Filters (n) button that opens a bottom sheet with the same three facets. The theme and account controls move beside it. Item detail opens as a full-screen sheet.
Where to go next
Start with the Overview walkthrough — it is the surface you land on, and it introduces the item-detail panel that the Timeline and Sources pages reuse. If you want the conceptual grounding first, read the object model and Scans and snapshots. Quick practical answers — costs, run times, languages, where artefacts land — are collected in the FAQ. Developers can drive everything on this page programmatically — see the API quickstart.