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Why We Built Policy Compass: Regulatory Intelligence

How building an energy switching platform led us to build regulatory intelligence for UK energy professionals. The founder story behind Policy Compass.

13 min read 22 Mar 2026

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What Is Policy Compass? Regulatory Intelligence, Explained

Policy Compass is regulatory intelligence for UK energy - continuous monitoring of Ofgem, DESNZ and industry codes, contextualised to your business, every answer cited.

8 min read 4 Jul 2026

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Flat-vector illustration of a professional kitchen pass at morning briefing: a head chef in an orange neckerchief reads a rail of order tickets while one cook claims a ticket, another is handed one, and a third spikes a finished ticket - the way a regulatory team claims, delegates and completes its weekly regulatory priorities from one shared list

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Monday Morning, the Team Knows Whose Job It Is

Policy Compass now opens on a Priorities page - your team's weekly regulatory priorities, ranked and claimable, with a Monday summary email to run the week from.

12 Sept Read

Flat-vector illustration of a simultaneous interpreter in an orange jumper inside a glass booth, converting a wall of loudspeaker noise into three clear, differently coloured feeds, one per listener - the way AI regulatory intelligence interprets the same regulatory signal differently for each business and role

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AI Regulatory Intelligence for UK Energy, Explained

What AI regulatory intelligence is and how we built Policy Compass to do it for UK energy - continuous monitoring, contextualised interpretation, cited answers.

9 Sept Read

Flat-vector illustration of a station concourse where mismatched departure boards, each a different shape with different indicator lamps, are checked one at a time by people walking between them, while a woman in an orange jumper stands calmly at a single unified board showing only her own items. A metaphor for tracking UK energy code changes register by register versus in one place.

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How to Track UK Energy Codes in One Place

Each UK energy code publishes change on its own site, in its own format, on its own timetable. Why tracking UK energy code changes in one place is hard.

5 Aug Read

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Consultation responses are how you shape the rules

In UK energy, responding to consultations is how you shape the rules. Why we built a tool that drafts from your house ethos - a high-quality draft to make your own.

3 Aug Read

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Regulatory intelligence is insurance, not a time-saver

The real cost of missing a regulatory change is rarely the hour you'd spend reading it. Why continuous monitoring is insurance, not a time-saver.

27 Jul Read

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Alternatives to Analyst Subscriptions in UK Energy

The alternatives to an analyst subscription for UK energy regulatory intelligence - manual monitoring, generic AI, analyst reports and AI-native tools, compared.

14 Jul Read

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The Best Way to Keep Up With Energy Regulation

Ofgem, DESNZ and code changes move on different clocks. The best way to keep up with energy regulation is to filter by business and role.

8 Jul Read

Flat-vector illustration of source documents flowing into a prism that splits one regulatory signal into role-specific beams for regulation, codes, commercial and operations teams.

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It Knows Your Company - Now It Knows Your Role

Role-aware regulatory intelligence from Policy Compass interprets UK energy regulatory change by business profile and role.

7 Jul Read

Flat-vector illustration of a UK energy professional in an orange jumper choosing a calibrated regulatory radar over a general-purpose telescope pointed at a question bubble

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Policy Compass vs ChatGPT for UK Energy Research

Policy Compass vs ChatGPT: where generic AI helps with UK energy regulatory research, and where continuous, source-grounded intelligence is the better fit.