On Monday 7 September 2026 at 08:00, the first Policy Compass weekly regulatory priorities emails went out: each team’s week - what needs action, what is worth knowing, what is coming - ranked for their business, with owners attached. Behind the email is a bigger change: the app now opens on a Priorities page, a live version of the same list that a team can run its Monday meeting from.
This feature has a short origin story, and for once I can tell it almost in real time.
TL;DR
- What shipped: Policy Compass now opens on the Priorities page - your weekly regulatory priorities in three sections (Act, Aware, On the horizon), ranked for your business and your role - with claiming, delegation and a Monday 08:00 summary email of the same list.
- Where it came from: a regulatory team on trial told us the value was arriving in “drips and drabs”, and described the weekly team view they actually wanted. We built it in the four days after the call.
- Who it’s for: regulatory teams that coordinate - who owns what, is everything covered - not just individuals staying informed.
- Try it: request a trial and we set your team up by hand.
The call that designed it
A week last Wednesday, 2 September, I was on a trial review call with a regulatory team - a small team covering a wide patch, the shape almost every team we speak to turns out to be. I expected feature requests. What I got instead was a description of a workflow we had not built.
The daily notifications were doing their job, one of them said, but the value was arriving in “drips and drabs”. What they wanted was the whole picture once a week: “these are the code developments we think you should be aware of, this is the Ofgem stuff - all into one email, still using the star rating.” And then the part that actually changed our roadmap - the reason they wanted it was not reading. It was coordination: “are we on these? Do we need to be on these? Who can get on them?”
They wanted something they could build a team ritual around. As one of them put it, the fundamentals were already in the product - it just wasn’t in the right shape to run a Monday meeting off.
I floated a rough idea on the call: what if there were a priorities page, not just an email - the same list, live in the app, with all the actions on it? The reply: “I really like the Radar page, but - just bang, here are our priorities, right there.”
We built it over the four days that followed and emailed the team on Sunday evening. The first Monday summary went out the next morning at 08:00.
What the Policy Compass Priorities page is
The screenshot is our own Meet George account on Policy Compass - a TPI profile, so everything in it is ranked and explained for a TPI. Each account is tuned to its own sector and business. Click the image to enlarge.
The Priorities page is the ranked, live view of your team’s weekly regulatory priorities - and it is now the first thing Policy Compass opens on. It starts with your week in one line - what to act on, what to be aware of, what is on the horizon - then splits it:
| Section | What is in it | What you do with it |
|---|---|---|
| Act | Open consultations with live deadlines, each with its relevance rating and closing date | Draft a response, ask Research, claim it or delegate it |
| Aware | Developments worth raising in the team meeting even if no response is needed | Read the commentary, ask Research about it |
| On the horizon | High-relevance items whose deadlines are further out | See it coming, plan ownership early |
The consultations in the screenshot are real - that week our own Act list held two open RECCo (opens in new tab) consultations and an Ofgem statutory consultation (opens in new tab) from the energy code reform programme (opens in new tab), all with closing dates inside six weeks. Exactly the kind of week where knowing who owns what matters.
Everything is ranked for your business and for your role, and the page stays live through the week - items that land after Monday are marked as new.
The point of all this is ownership: any item can be claimed (“I’ll take this”), and a sidebar shows who is on what - including the number nobody has claimed yet.
How the weekly regulatory priorities email works
Policy Compass’s Monday email is a snapshot of the Priorities page at 08:00, and it deliberately behaves like a standing agenda rather than a news feed. An open consultation appears again the following Monday if it is still open - closer to its deadline, higher up the list - because regulatory deadlines do not care whether you saw the announcement.
The detail we are most pleased with came directly from the call. Each item carries a one-line explanation of what it is and why it matters, written to be readable outside the regulatory team - because the team told us the summary is the one thing they would forward to their executive team, who are not regulation specialists. So every one-liner is written to survive being sent upwards.
How delegation works in Policy Compass
The coordination question from the call - “who can get on them?” - needed delegation, so that shipped too. Pick a teammate on any item and they get an email: what it is, why it matters, and Accept or Decline buttons that work straight from the inbox. Decline asks for a one-line reason and puts the item back on the team’s unowned list, so a handover that did not land gets reassigned instead of silently dropped. A delegation that can be declined is a real question, not a hospital pass.
Has it worked?
Honestly: we do not know yet. The first Monday emails have gone out, the page is live for every team, and the regulatory team whose call started all this is partly on leave - so the test that matters, a real team running a real Monday meeting off it, has not fully happened. That is the deal with building this product in the open: we shipped what the practitioners described, and now we find out whether we heard them correctly. Ask us in two Mondays.
What shipped, in one paragraph: Policy Compass now opens on the Priorities page - your team’s weekly regulatory priorities in three ranked sections, Act, Aware and On the horizon, interpreted for your business and each person’s role. Items can be claimed, delegated with a proper accept-or-decline answer, marked done or snoozed, and every Monday at 08:00 the whole team gets the same list as an email built to be forwarded beyond the regulatory team.
If your team’s Monday currently starts with everyone separately reading the same inbox, this is the part of Policy Compass built for you - request a trial and run next Monday’s meeting off your own priorities page.