Buyer's guide · Updated October 2026
Every option promises to keep you ahead of Ofgem, DESNZ and the codes. Here's how the approaches differ, and seven questions that will show you which one fits your team.
What good looks like
Continuous monitoring across UK energy's regulators and industry codes - not just the headline publications.
Signals filtered and explained for your business and your role, not written for the whole market.
A specific question about your business gets a specific answer, rather than a digest to read through.
Consultation drafts that start from your own positions, and deadlines that can't slip past.
Every factual claim traceable to its source, and drafts that tell you what to check before you send.
Plain answers on where your data goes, who can see it, and what the contract says about it.
The options
Most teams use a mix. What matters is which job each one does well.
What gets watched
When you hear about it
Whether it knows what matters to you
Where answers come from
Help with the work that counts
How you pay
Newer AI tools built for regulation vary a lot. The seven questions below are the quickest way to tell them apart.
Seven questions
Each question comes with why it matters and how Policy Compass answers it. Hold us to every one.
01
A digest tells you what happened. Colleagues want to know what it means for your business, and anything you pass on needs to show its working.
How Policy Compass answers
Ask about a consultation, a code modification or a licence condition, and Research answers for your business and your role. Every factual claim links to the document it came from.
02
The change that catches a team out often isn't the press release. It's the code modification or guidance update that nobody was watching for.
How Policy Compass answers
Radar monitors across UK energy's regulators and industry codes, writes commentary on each signal and scores its relevance to your business. Alerts arrive at the threshold you set.
03
A generic first draft can take as long to fix as to write. One that starts from positions you've already argued doesn't. And if drafting is sold in credits, check how many responses a year you're really buying.
How Policy Compass answers
Policy Compass learns your house ethos from responses you've already submitted, then drafts a first answer to every question in a new consultation. Drafting is part of the seat price.
04
The documents that make a draft sound like you - internal positions, earlier drafts, board papers - are confidential. Read the terms before you upload anything: they decide who carries the risk.
How Policy Compass answers
Yes. Our customer agreement treats your non-public content as your confidential information. We don't use your documents to train models, and they're stored in the UK.
05
Your security team will ask. A vendor that can't answer on the spot can add weeks to procurement.
How Policy Compass answers
Your data is stored in the UK, and the AI models that read it run in the EU. Our Security Overview names every sub-processor and its region - ask, and we'll send it.
06
You need long enough to try it on live work - a consultation, a code modification, a question from the board - not a demo account.
How Policy Compass answers
14 days, no card. We build your account and business profile before your team signs in, so the first day is spent on real work.
07
If it lives in another tab, the colleagues who most need an answer won't open it.
How Policy Compass answers
Ask in Slack or Microsoft Teams, get alerts by email, and hand a change to the teammate who owns it.
Checklist
The seven questions, ready to paste into an email or a meeting invite.
Test every answer on the regulation in front of you - a live consultation, a code modification, a question from the board.
