Emerging policy exposure
Identifies policy proposals that could affect a client’s activities and explains their potential business consequences. Distinguishes emerging possibilities from confirmed regulatory requirements.
— Markets & Intelligence
Regulatory Impact Scanner
Tracks emerging policy and regulatory movement in your markets and translates each development into concrete obligations, affected processes, cost, timeline and owner.
- Markets & Intelligence
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
1 week → ~15 minutes
Including the external research pass
No coding required
- Input
- Current policy and regulatory announcements
- Output
- Regulatory impact brief
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~1 week per run
— USE CASES
What people use Regulatory Impact Scanner for
Regulatory change planning
Maps relevant developments to obligations, affected processes, likely cost implications and implementation timeframes. Identifies ownership considerations to support practical planning.
Leadership impact briefing
Produces a concise, evidence-backed view of material regulatory developments and their implications. Gives leadership a basis for discussing priorities, resources and responsibility.
Client advisory reviews
Provides a consistent assessment of regulatory exposure across a client’s relevant markets and activities. Grounds advice in corroborated research and makes uncertainties explicit.
What it works from
- Current policy and regulatory announcements
- Consultation papers and published regulatory requirements
- Regulation-focused research and market intelligence
- Organisational activities, markets and jurisdictions in scope
What you get back
- Regulatory impact brief
- Evidence-backed summaries of relevant developments
- Assessment of obligations and affected processes
- Indicative cost implications and implementation timeframes with supporting assumptions where available
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Regulatory Impact Scanner produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Live research on the market being watched
Current external sources on the market being watched are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.
Composed as work product
Findings on the market being watched are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a signal.
Criteria-based analysis of every signal
Each signal is assessed against explicit criteria you control, so the same standard is applied across the market being watched on every run.
Like-for-like comparison of signals
Signals are compared on the same dimensions, which makes differences meaningful rather than impressionistic.
Why this is expensive by hand
Regulatory developments often arrive as fragmented announcements, consultation papers and commentary, leaving advisory teams to distinguish material change from speculation. Emerging policy exposure is the typical trigger — identifies policy proposals that could affect a client’s activities and explains their potential business consequences. Distinguishes emerging possibilities from confirmed regulatory requirements. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 1 week of manual work.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; regulatory impact brief comes out, alongside evidence-backed summaries of relevant developments. What sits between input and output is the codified method: thresholds, sequencing and the points where a human confirms a call — all of it visible and editable in the Skill. In effect, 1 week of senior time compresses into ~15 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.
Who it's for
- Strategy and market intelligence teams
- Corporate development and investment teams
- Consultants advising on positioning and timing
- Leaders who need early warning, not hindsight
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Regulatory Impact Scanner exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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