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Capability 07

See the rule while it is still a draft.

Foreign legislatures and multilateral bodies write rules that reach your economy long before they reach your inbox. By the time a measure passes, the window for influence closed months earlier.

Jurisdictions
Client-defined
Refresh
Hourly
Scoring
Relevance model
Alert
Stage advancement
Bill progression with relevance scoring

Where measures are actually decided

The floor vote is theatre. The text is settled in committee, in rapporteur drafts, and in the amendment negotiations that never make a news cycle. A state that only watches for passage is watching the one stage where nothing can be changed.

We track the earlier stages: introduction, committee referral and hearings, amendment tabling, rapporteur language, and the shift in a bill's sponsor coalition. Each item is scored for relevance against your defined interests, whether that is a commodity, a diaspora population, a sector, a trade route, or a specific bilateral relationship.

Beyond legislatures

The same tracking covers regulatory consultations, sanctions designations and delistings, standards bodies where technical rules become trade barriers, and multilateral resolutions and their sponsor lists. For each item we map who is driving it, who is wavering, and which arguments have moved similar votes in the past.

Sources feeding the tracking pipeline

What you receive

A weekly digest for the standing picture and immediate alerts on stage advancement above a relevance threshold you set.

Where an item passes that threshold we prepare a short position note: what the measure does, what it costs or gains you, who the decisive actors are, and what a realistic intervention looks like at that stage. The note fits on two pages, because a fifty-page assessment delivered after committee stage is an archive entry rather than an instrument.

Detail

Coverage

The parts of this capability a technical evaluator will want to interrogate before a procurement decision.

01

National legislatures

Bill text, committee calendars, hearing records, sponsor coalitions, and amendment history in the jurisdictions you nominate.

02

Regulatory pipelines

Consultations, draft instruments, and comment windows, which are open to foreign submissions far more often than states assume.

03

Multilateral bodies

Resolutions, sponsor and co-sponsor movement, and the drafting groups where language is actually settled.

04

Standards and sanctions

Technical standards that function as trade barriers, plus designation and delisting activity affecting your entities.

Questions

Asked in most evaluations

Answers we would give in the room, written down so you can circulate them without a meeting.

Which jurisdictions can you cover?

Any jurisdiction that publishes legislative records, which is most of them. Depth varies with what each body publishes and how machine-readable it is. We scope coverage explicitly per jurisdiction rather than claiming global reach and delivering thin data.

How is relevance scored?

Against an interest profile built with your desks during setup, refined by feedback on what you escalated and what you ignored. The profile is yours, it is editable, and the scoring rationale is visible on every item.

Do you lobby on our behalf?

No. We provide the intelligence, the timing, and the analysis of who can be moved. Representation is done by your diplomats and your appointed counsel, which is both the legal position and the effective one.

How does this connect to the narrative work?

Legislative measures usually arrive with a media campaign in front of them. Running both capabilities on one platform means the bill and the narrative pushing it appear in the same picture, which is often the first sign that a measure has organised backing.

Contact

Bring us the question your last briefing could not answer.

Tell us the jurisdiction and the mandate. We will tell you within a week whether we are the right people for it.