The problem
Regulation doesn’t stand still. Awaab’s Law is adding hazards in phases through 2027. Keeping Children Safe in Education changes every September. Funding rules reset annually. Standards and codes of practice are revised mid-year with little ceremony.
An AI assistant built against last year’s guidance keeps giving confident answers from a world that no longer exists — and nobody notices until it matters.
How Regulatory Watch works
1. The register
Every assistant ships with a regulatory register: a named list of the statutes, guidance and frameworks it depends on, each with its version and last-reviewed date. A dozen named instruments is a trackable problem. “Housing regulation” is not.
2. The calendar
Much regulatory change is scheduled, not sprung. Statutory phases have published dates; annual guidance lands on a known rhythm. We diarise everything that can be diarised, so most change is expected before it’s announced.
3. The watch
We monitor the official sources and the sector’s legal commentary. Our own AI reads the feeds and flags anything that touches a register; a sector specialist decides what to do about it. That order matters — AI to catch, humans to judge.
4. The log
Every review is recorded: what was checked, by whom, on what date, with what outcome. When guidance changes, the knowledge base gets a new version — so every past answer stays tied to the rules that were in force when it was given.
Who owns what
We maintain
The shared regulatory layer: the statutes, statutory guidance, national frameworks and standards your assistants depend on. One team watching Awaab’s Law properly serves every housing client at once.
You maintain
Your own documents: policies, procedures and local schemes. Only you know when your board approved a new allocations policy. (We make updating them straightforward.)
KnowledgeFlow keeps the knowledge current. The decisions remain yours.
The service level
When a material change to a registered framework is published, we review it and update the affected assistants within 10 working days, with an emergency path for changes that carry statutory deadlines.
We don’t claim “real time”. Real time is a claim nobody can evidence. A logged review cycle is.
When someone asks
When a regulator, auditor or board member asks “how do you know your AI is current?”, you’ll have an answer that isn’t a shrug: here is the register it’s maintained against, here is the review log, and here is the version of the knowledge base every answer was given from.
Ask to see a register
The fastest way to judge this is to look at one. Book a demo and we’ll walk you through a live register and its review log.