Product Concept
(English summary of spec.md, which remains the canonical source in German.)
The problem
Finding current and historical monitorships, DPAs, or NPAs is time-consuming. Information is scattered across regulatory press releases, court filings, and international registers (DoJ, SEC, OFAC, etc.). Law firms preparing a mandate or doing competitive analysis struggle to systematically compare patterns, appointed monitors, or specific conditions across cases.
Core capabilities (target state)
- Automated data crawler — continuously scans global regulators (DoJ, SEC, FCA, etc.) and court databases for new settlements, deferred prosecutions, and monitor appointments.
- NLP extraction — parses unstructured filings and multi-hundred-page agreements to extract: company name and industry, violation type (FCPA/ bribery, money laundering, sanctions violations, ...), DPA/NPA term and status, appointed monitor and firm, specific obligations and financial sanctions.
- Advanced search and filtering — by industry, jurisdiction, violation type, or law firm, to find precedents for advisory work.
- Real-time radar and alerts — notify users when a new proceeding is opened, a monitor is appointed, or a DPA concludes, scoped to industries or competitors they track.
- Trend and benchmark analysis — statistics on which industries face the most monitor appointments and which compliance requirements are becoming standard.
Value for compliance-focused law firms
- Time savings in mandate preparation — fast access to comparable cases and conditions.
- Strategic insight — which monitors are active in which industries, and how strict comparable conditions have been.
- Business development — identify companies in active remediation phases that may need help building new compliance structures.