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Regulatory and compliance scan

Establishes what the rules currently require and what is coming. Boring until it is the reason a strategy is illegal, which is a late moment to find out.

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Stage
01 Diagnose, 02 Explore
Works at
Corporate, Business
Maturity
Early startup → Large organisation
Time
Three to five days, more in regulated sectors

What it is

A structured review of the regulatory obligations affecting a business and its intended moves, covering both what applies now and what is coming. Its purpose is to surface constraints early enough that a strategy can be shaped around them rather than stopped by them.

Scope
The activities, geographies and customer types in question. Regulation attaches to activities, not to sector labels.
Current obligations
What applies today: licensing, reporting, product standards, data, employment, consumer protection.
Pipeline
What is proposed or consulted on, with expected dates and the confidence attached to each.
Direction of travel
Where the regulator is heading, visible in consultations, speeches and enforcement priorities long before rules change.
Strategy triggers
Which of the intended moves would bring you into a new regime. The most useful part, and the reason to run this against a strategy rather than a business.
Advice threshold
Where the consequence of being wrong justifies legal input rather than a scan.
The mistake people makeA scan is not advice. It tells you where to look and what to ask about; where the downside is licences, fines or personal liability, it should end in a conversation with somebody qualified.
What it’s forRegulation could constrain or open the strategy and nobody has checked what is coming.
What it’s not forYour sector is lightly regulated and stable. A scan will return noise.

How you run it

  1. Scope by activity and geographyRegulation applies to what you do and where. A scan by sector misses the rules that apply because of how you sell rather than what you sell.
  2. Separate current from proposedCurrent obligations are facts. Proposed regulation is a probability with a date, and mixing them produces false certainty in both directions.
  3. Check the direction of travelRegulators publish consultations, discussion papers and enforcement priorities well ahead. Direction is often knowable years before the rule.
  4. Identify what the strategy would triggerNew activities frequently cross into new regimes — licensing, data, consumer protection, product liability. Check the strategy's moves specifically, not the business generally.
  5. Take legal advice where it mattersA scan tells you where to look. It does not substitute for advice when the consequence of being wrong is material.

The prompt

Two ways to run it

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Everything above is free — what this tool is, what it is for, what it is not for, and how to run it as a workshop. Three tool prompts a month are free with an account; beyond three, and for the printable canvas, it is the paid part.

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Your playbook

It lands in the earliest stage this tool suits. Move it on the Playbook page.

You’ll need

  • The markets and activities in scope
  • Access to regulator publications and trade body briefings
  • Legal input where consequences are material

You’ll end up with

  • Current obligations relevant to the strategy
  • Changes coming, with dates and confidence
  • What is blocked, constrained, or needs a licence

Runs well with

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