Federal Index reads government sources, keeps each document’s status, dates and citation,
flags what may concern your organization, and routes it to the person responsible for reviewing
it. Your team decides whether and how a change applies.
How an item moves through Federal Index
01
Read the source
Named government publishers, and the access services that carry their records, are read on a schedule. Every one is on the Source Register.
02
Keep its status
Document type, issuing authority, jurisdiction and each date by kind — published, effective, comment period — with a link to its source: the official record, or the access service that carries it.
03
Flag potential relevance
Items are matched to an organization by its declared sector, agencies and jurisdictions. A match is flagged for review, never treated as a finding.
04
Route it
Each flagged item goes to the role that owns it — legal, compliance, EHS, finance, security or leadership — in the workspace and in a daily digest by role.
05
Search the record
Every document Federal Index holds — rules, dockets, legislation, opinions — can be searched, and every result links to its source.
What your team receives
A workspace for each role
Each person signs in with their own seat and opens the view for the role they were registered with. The organization is the data boundary; the role decides the view.
A daily digest, routed by role
A scheduled email to each seat with the items for its role, each linked to its source. Every digest sent is logged.
Citations you can open
Every interpretation carries citations that must appear in its source document, or it is stopped. Every item links to its source.
Search across the corpus
One search across the government documents Federal Index holds, with each result’s publisher, type and dates, and a link to its source.
Source text and analysis, kept apart
What the government published and what Federal Index says about it are shown separately. Federal
Index uses AI to summarize and classify documents. Every citation in an interpretation must
appear in the source document it came from, or the interpretation is stopped, and every
customer-facing summary is checked against its source text by an automated review before it is
published. Language about relevance is careful by design: an item “may apply” or
“needs review”; it is never declared to apply. How sources, dates and analysis are
handled is set out in the methodology.
An example, on real documents
Two items from the example workspace: real Federal Register documents, reviewed for a fictional
oil and gas company. One needs review; the other is recorded as not applicable, with the reason.
Rule — direct final rule (dfr); confirmation of effective datePipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Confirms that an updated steel pipe standard, incorporated by reference in the pipeline safety regulations, takes effect on January 1, 2027; the example company operates gathering and crude oil pipelines.
Concerns production sites in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. The example company holds no Alaska leases, so an example reviewer records it as not applicable, with this reason.
Federal Index is in private beta. Everything described on this page is in the product today, and
accounts open after a person reviews the request. Coverage is defined in the
Coverage Commitment; pricing principles are on the pricing page.