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Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

Stop manually tracking
regulatory changes
before they cost you.

ChangeHawk monitors FDA, SEC, GDPR, healthcare, and industry-specific regulatory pages — and sends AI-powered alerts the moment rules change. Know what changed, what it means for your compliance posture, and what action to take.

Hourly monitoring
🤖 AI-powered change summaries
📧 Instant email alerts
📋 Full audit history
🔒 No scraping limits

A real regulatory compliance alert

This is what a ChangeHawk alert looks like when a regulatory page updates — not "something changed" but exactly what changed and what it means.

Alert from ChangeHawk — Regulatory Update Detected
High Priority Regulatory Change Action Required

fda.gov/medical-devices/guidance — Significant policy update detected

AI Analysis

FDA updated its 510(k) pre-submission guidance to require additional cybersecurity documentation for connected medical devices. The new requirements mandate a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and a threat modeling assessment for any device with wireless connectivity — effective for submissions after March 1. If your device has Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connectivity, your next submission will require these two new documents. Legal review recommended before your next pre-submission meeting.

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Manual regulatory tracking is a liability, not a process

Regulators don't send you a calendar invite when rules change. FDA, SEC, and GDPR updates post to government websites — often quietly, between major announcements. Most compliance teams find out about changes from industry newsletters or external counsel, weeks after they go live. By then, your next submission, filing, or audit is already at risk. Automated monitoring closes that gap before it becomes a fine.

Regulated industries that can't miss updates

Compliance officers, legal teams, and risk managers across four high-stakes sectors use ChangeHawk to catch regulatory changes before their next audit, submission, or filing.

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Healthcare & Medical Devices

FDA • CMS • ONC • DEA

FDA guidance documents, 510(k) policies, drug approval requirements, and CMS reimbursement rules change frequently — and missing an update can delay or invalidate a submission. Monitor the exact pages that govern your product categories and know within hours when guidance shifts.

fda.gov/medical-devices cms.gov/regulations healthit.gov/policy
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Finance & Banking

SEC • FINRA • FDIC • OCC • CFPB

SEC rule amendments, FINRA regulatory notices, and CFPB guidance updates directly affect reporting, disclosure, and product requirements. Monitor the exact SEC rulemaking pages relevant to your business — equities, derivatives, investment advisory, or consumer finance.

sec.gov/rules finra.org/rules cfpb.gov/policy
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Legal & Privacy

GDPR • CCPA • FTC • State AGs

Privacy law is one of the fastest-moving regulatory areas in the world. GDPR guidance from data protection authorities, CCPA amendments, and FTC enforcement updates can change what your privacy policy and data practices must say. Track the regulators your clients ask about most.

edpb.europa.eu/guidelines oag.ca.gov/privacy ftc.gov/news-events/rules
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Pharma & Life Sciences

FDA • EMA • ICH • DEA

Drug approval pathways, clinical trial requirements, labeling standards, and controlled substance scheduling change through FDA and EMA guidance — often with 60–90 day implementation windows. Monitor the guidance pages relevant to your therapeutic areas and catch updates before they affect your NDA or IND submissions.

fda.gov/drugs/guidance ema.europa.eu/guidelines dea.diversion.usdoj.gov

Types of regulatory changes worth monitoring

Not every government webpage update is a compliance event. ChangeHawk's AI filters signal from noise — escalating material changes and ignoring navigation tweaks.

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Guidance Documents

Draft and final FDA guidance, SEC interpretive releases, and agency FAQ updates that clarify how rules apply to your specific situation — often more immediately actionable than the rule itself.

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Rulemaking & Proposed Rules

Federal Register notices, SEC proposed rules, and CFPB rulemaking proceedings. Know when comment periods open and close, and when final rules are published — before they hit your inbox as forward from outside counsel.

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Enforcement Actions

SEC enforcement press releases, FTC consent orders, and FINRA disciplinary actions signal where regulators are focusing. Patterns in enforcement tell you where to tighten controls before the next examination cycle.

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Reporting Requirements

Changes to forms, schedules, disclosure deadlines, and data formats — like SEC EDGAR updates, CMS quality reporting changes, or CDER submission format revisions — that affect your operational compliance calendar.

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International Regulatory Updates

EMA guidance for EU clinical trials, GDPR decisions from national data protection authorities, MiFID II technical standards, and other cross-border regulatory updates that affect global operations.

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Deadline & Effective Date Changes

Compliance deadlines get pushed, phased, or accelerated with less fanfare than the original rule. ChangeHawk catches implementation timeline updates on the same pages where rules are posted — before your compliance calendar falls out of sync.

Manual vs. automated regulatory monitoring

Most compliance teams are still doing this manually. Here's how ChangeHawk replaces a broken process with a reliable one.

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Add the regulatory URLs you care about

Paste the exact government or regulatory body pages into ChangeHawk — FDA guidance pages, SEC rulemaking indexes, GDPR authority opinion pages, state-specific compliance pages. Add as many as your plan allows. No integration required, no API keys, no IT ticket.

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ChangeHawk monitors them on your schedule

Pages are checked as frequently as hourly. ChangeHawk captures the page content, compares it to the previous version, and identifies any material differences — new text, removed requirements, updated dates, added documents, changed links.

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AI explains what changed in plain English

When a change is detected, our AI reads the diff in context and writes a plain-English summary: what specifically changed, why it's likely significant, and what type of compliance action it typically requires. Not "15 characters changed on line 847" — but "FDA added a new requirement for cybersecurity documentation in 510(k) submissions."

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You get an email alert within hours

The alert lands in your inbox (or your team's shared compliance inbox) with the AI summary, a direct link to the changed page, and a severity rating. Forward it to legal, log it in your compliance system, or schedule a review — the alert gives you enough context to act without reading the full regulatory document first.

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Full audit trail — always

Every change is logged: what was on the page before, what it says now, when the change was detected, and what the AI analysis said. When your next audit or inspection asks "how do you track regulatory changes," you can show them a timestamped log of every detection — not a spreadsheet someone updates manually.

Why manual monitoring fails at scale

Most compliance teams monitor 10–50 regulatory sources. Manually, that's 4–20 hours per week of high-cost staff time. Here's how the math breaks down.

Capability ChangeHawk Manual Process
Check frequency Every hour Weekly (if you're disciplined)
Pages monitored (per plan) 25–unlimited 5–10 (realistically)
Change explanation AI plain-English summary Person reads entire page
Audit trail Automatic, timestamped Manual log (often incomplete)
Alert speed after change < 1 hour Days to weeks
Staff time required Near zero 4–20 hrs/week
Scales with team growth Yes — add URLs, not headcount No — linear cost increase

Less than one hour of outside counsel

ChangeHawk costs less per month than 30 minutes of outside counsel time — and it monitors your regulatory pages 24 hours a day.

Free
$0
forever — no credit card
  • 3 pages monitored
  • AI change summaries
  • Email alerts
  • 30-day change history
Professional
$49/mo
for compliance teams across multiple product lines
  • Unlimited pages
  • Real-time monitoring
  • Team sharing
  • Severity triage
  • Exportable audit logs

Your next regulatory change
shouldn't come as a surprise.

Start monitoring the regulatory pages that matter to your compliance team. Free plan, no setup, no credit card. Add your first pages in under 2 minutes.

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