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Synthetic Regulatory Watcher
Continuous monitoring of the export-control, sanctions and defence-standards landscape that decides what you can build, sell and ship.
Monitors
What it monitors
Defence regulation moves on many tracks at once, and the change that matters to you is usually a footnote in someone else's update. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher tracks the specific frameworks that touch your technology and target markets, not the full regulatory universe, which is noise.
EU dual-use Regulation 2021/821
Annex I control-list amendments, delegated acts and Commission guidance on emerging technologies, assessed against your stack.
German export controls (AWG / KWKG)
Amendments to the Aussenwirtschaftsgesetz and the war-weapons list, licensing practice notes and BAFA guidance.
ITAR / EAR touchpoints
US re-export rules as they touch your supply chain: what pulling a US-origin component into your product would trigger.
Sanctions updates
EU and national sanctions-list changes that affect customers, suppliers or investors in your pipeline.
AQAP and STANAG revisions
Changes to the NATO quality and standardisation documents your certifications and contracts reference.
Delivers
What it delivers
The Watcher answers three questions on every change: what changed, does it apply to you, and what should you do this week. Formatted for a founder, not a compliance memo.
Regulation change alerts
When a tracked framework changes, an alert the same week, with the exact clause and what changed.
Applicability assessments
A plain-language read of whether the change touches your product, your contracts or neither, and why.
Action checklists
The concrete steps a change demands: memos to refresh, clauses to add, screenings to rerun, each with an owner.
Quarterly compliance map
Where your obligations stand across jurisdictions, what is pending, and what is coming.
Replaces
What it replaces
Role
Export-control consultant on retainer
Cost
EUR 300 to 450 per hour · 5 to 10 hours per month minimum
Time to value
2 to 4 weeks to find and brief a defence-competent specialist
An export-control specialist with defence experience bills like a law firm and still needs your briefing before producing anything useful. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher is pre-configured for the European defence frameworks, active from week one, and costs EUR 900 per month. It does not replace counsel for licence applications, it makes sure you call counsel before the problem, not after.
Scope
What it does not do
The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher is a monitoring and intelligence function. It is not a compliance function and not a substitute for qualified legal advice.
Does not provide legal advice
It monitors, summarises and flags. Formal classification decisions and licence strategy belong with qualified counsel.
Does not file licences
Export licence applications and end-use documentation go through your national authority, prepared by you or your counsel.
Does not cover every jurisdiction
It is configured for your target markets. Additional jurisdictions are added when you deploy.
Does not make risk decisions
It flags exposure and recommends. Accepting or declining a risk stays a founder call.
For
Who this is for
A founder building controlled or dual-use technology for European defence customers without an in-house compliance function. One missed control-list change can freeze a shipment, void a deal or worse. The Watcher keeps the landscape in view continuously, so surprises stop being part of your regulatory strategy.
Deploy the Synthetic Regulatory Watcher
Configured for your technology and target markets from week one. Change alerts the week they land, compliance map every quarter. Cancel anytime after the first month.
EUR 900per month · cancel anytime
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