Why PolicyMate

Name a source.
We'll be reading it tomorrow.

PolicyMate already watches thousands of sources around the world. Let us know the sources you need added and have them live and monitored within 24 hours.

A day with PolicyMate

Always briefed. Never behind.

From the morning digest to the alert that reaches you at exactly the right moment, PolicyMate runs alongside your whole day and keeps you ahead of every development.

MORNING

Your morning digest.

PolicyMate opens your day with a digest of everything that matters on your issues. You're fully caught up in five minutes.

ALL DAY

Real-time intelligence feed.

Your intelligence feed keeps updating as the day goes on, surfacing new relevant developments the moment they land.

ON DEMAND

Ask anything.

Put your hardest questions to the PolicyMate assistant: dive into a file, spot a trend, map the stakeholders behind an issue. Its analytical depth is unmatched by any other tool.

LIVE

Every hearing, live.

Hearings, committee sessions and debates are transcribed and monitored as they happen, so a discussion you needed to hear about never slips by.

ALERTS
YOUR WAY

The right signal reaches you.

Alerts are fully customisable. Decide exactly what you want to know, and when, where and how it reaches you.

That's every day with PolicyMate: briefed by morning, ahead all day, never caught off guard. You're always first to know.

Why your current fix doesn't close it

You probably already use one of these. Here's what each one misses.

Four common ways teams track policy today. Each one does its job well. Here's the gap PolicyMate closes in each case.

SPECIALIST PRESS · MISSES YOUR SPECIFIC FILE

Great coverage, written for everyone.

POLITICO Pro, Contexte, MLex and similar outlets cover the centre of the policy world well, and they're worth paying for. But they write for thousands of subscribers, so they publish what's broadly newsworthy, not what moved your file specifically: the transposition in one member state, the annex, the local decree. And once they do run the story, every subscriber reads it at the same moment, including your competitors. PolicyMate tracks your file directly, before it's broad enough to make the news.

ALERTS + A CHATBOT · MISSES WHAT ISN'T ONLINE YET

A chatbot can only find what's already indexed.

Google Alerts and a chatbot are a reasonable starting point. But they can only surface what a search engine has already crawled, and most policy activity, committee sessions, local filings, non-English sources, never gets indexed at all. PolicyMate reads those sources directly and keeps its own dated record, so you're not limited to what a search engine happened to find.

A MONITORING TOOL · MISSES ANYTHING OFF ITS LIST

If a source isn't on their list, you won't see it.

Legacy monitoring platforms track a fixed list of sources, usually national and English-language, and leave you to sort through the alerts yourself. Add a regional regulator or a local trade paper, and you're waiting on their product roadmap. Tell PolicyMate about a new source and it's live within a day, in any language, already sorted by relevance.

A CONSULTANCY · MISSES SCALE

Expanding means hiring, not just asking.

A good consultancy's people often know before it's published, and no software replaces that judgment. But their coverage is exactly as wide as the team they've staffed: strong in one capital, thin just past the border. Every new market means a new contract and a new team learning your business from scratch. PolicyMate covers a new country or language the same day you ask.

Cover every base

You need a tool that does it all. Other tools don't.

Read every source.

Portals, gazettes and committee pages that no index covers, crawled directly. Name one that's missing and it's added.

Read every language.

Any language in, yours out. Nothing skipped because nobody on the team could read it.

Build the record.

Every session transcribed and every position tracked, so today's move comes with years of context.

Tell you why it matters.

Information is not intelligence. Every update includes full context why it matters to your interests.

The due diligence

Here's how we stack up.

Here are a lot of the common questions we get asked about how we compare to other options, and how we see the playing field.

Bold marks the strongest answer in each row, whoever's it is. Sometimes it isn't ours.

THE QUESTION ON YOUR MIND
DIY
alerts + ChatGPT
Legacy platform
monitoring vendor
Consultancy
public affairs
PolicyMate
policy intelligence
"What does it catch that I'm missing now?"
Only what a search engine can reach
Only what's in the catalogue
Only wherever you have someone on retainer
Name any source. Town council, foreign regulator, niche trade feed
"Who is reading while I'm not looking?"
Nobody. It answers when you ask
A keyword feed runs, but no one reads the results for you
Their team, but only on the files they're briefed on
Every source, continuously. What touches your dossiers surfaces as it publishes
"It's AI. How far can I trust it?"
It can invent a source and sound certain
The feed itself is solid, but you still do the reading
A named person signs it
Every line links the dated document. Check any claim in a click
"What happens when we enter a new market?"
You can ask about it. Nothing starts watching it
A change request, if it's on the roadmap
Another contract, another team
Fully tracked and monitored in days
"What does my team have to learn?"
Nothing to learn. Someone still has to remember to ask
A portal to log into and training to sit through
Nothing to learn. But you can't ask it anything between briefings
Arrives in email, Slack or WhatsApp. Ask it from there, or from your own ChatGPT or Claude
"What does it cost?"
Cheapest. Subscriptions you already have
Up to high five figures, priced per module.
Highest. Minimum five figures per month.
Priced to the coverage you use. Firm quote the same day
"Will our security team sign off?"
Policy documents pasted into a consumer chatbot
Yes. Every certification you'll ask for
Yes. A services contract raises none of this
EU-hosted, role-based access, 2FA. DPA and sub-processor list published. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 on the roadmap.

Still comparing

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No. Chatbots answer from what Google indexed, and most policy isn't there. PolicyMate crawls the unindexed sources where policy actually publishes, in any language, links the people and organisations behind them, and tracks every move for months. That's monitoring, not one-off answering. And you can connect it to your own ChatGPT or Claude, so it feeds the assistant you already use.

They're good journalists. But there's only a limited amount they cover, and less you can read. PolicyMate watches what newsrooms don't cover and flags only what you need to know, so you know first and catch what others (including journalists) miss.

PolicyMate replaces monitoring, first-pass analysis, real-time intelligence, and briefing, reducing or replacing money spent on consultants.

Track the sources no one else covers.

Tell us the sources that matter to your interests, however local or obscure. We'll show you what they published this week that's relevant to you.

BRING THREE SOURCES · WE'LL READ THEM BACK TO YOU · 20 MINUTES