First to know when the rules change.

Regulators publish on their own schedule and expect you to be reading. A guidance page grows a new paragraph, a consultation opens with a 45-day window, a threshold changes in a table — and the official channel for all of it is "we updated the website." Newsletters and law-firm briefings summarize it days later, after the clock has already started.

modsignal watches the source: the agency's guidance index, the rule page, the consultation list. Tell it what your obligations actually depend on — alert me when new draft guidance mentions medical devices, tell me if this registration threshold changes — and it checks on your schedule and compares against the last version it saw.

Alerts quote the new language directly, with a timestamp, which is exactly what you want to paste into a compliance log or hand to counsel. The semantic tier matters here: agency pages restructure constantly, and you need something that can tell "the page was reformatted" apart from "a new obligation appeared."

Teams usually run one monitor per regulator page rather than one per regulator, because a targeted prompt on a specific page beats a vague prompt on a homepage. Daily checks fit most rulemaking; during an open consultation you care about, hourly is cheap peace of mind.