RegSignal
Tracks how construction regulations propagate from Federal law down to local enforcement — and when they'll cost you money
Federal Signal. Local Revenue.
Construction professionals face financial losses when regulations become locally enforceable — not when they’re published federally. Existing policy-tracking tools completely miss this propagation timeline.
RegSignal is a regulatory intelligence platform that connects the dots: Federal Register entries → state building code updates → city council adoption → local enforcement dates.
What it does
- Propagation graph — links federal rules to state updates to municipal decisions
- Diff engine — surfaces the specific text changes that matter
- Lag forecaster — estimates when a rule will actually hit your jobsite
- Targeted ingestion — scrapes unstructured municipal data from city planning portals
The MVP tracks energy code adoption in the Pacific Northwest: US DOE → Washington State Building Code Council → Seattle SDCI.
Stack
Python · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · spaCy · sentence-transformers · BeautifulSoup · aiohttp