Horizon Scanning, now in Eudia
Every in-house legal team monitors regulatory change, and most of them do it by hand.
Some teams subscribe to newsletters. Others check a regulator's website when someone remembers to. When a business leader asks what changed, a junior lawyer pulls together a summary from whichever sources they have time to read.
The work takes hours each week, and its rigor depends on the people doing it. When the team is deep in a quarter-end close, a deal, or an investigation, monitoring slips. An update goes unread, or the findings never get collated. Too often, legal learns about a new rule when a business team asks about it, or after the rule is already in force.
Legal teams need monitoring with the same rigor in a quiet week and a busy one.
Introducing Horizon Scanning in Eudia
Horizon Scanning gives your legal team a standing watch over the developments material to your business. Give each scan a title, list the concepts you want to follow, and add the websites you want checked, such as a state privacy agency or a federal regulator.Then describe in plain language what matters and what to flag, and choose whether the scan runs daily, weekly, or monthly.
Eudia searches your named sources and the wider web for the concepts you set. The first report covers the past week, and each report after it arrives in your inbox on schedule. Every update is dated, summarized, and linked to its source, with citations on each summary so your team verifies any point in one click. Share a scan with named colleagues or with the whole organization, so the people affected by a change hear about it from legal first.
Consider a privacy team tracking whether vendors are allowed to train AI models on de-identified health data. The team sets concepts such as AI model training, health data, vendor contracts, and state privacy law, adds the California Privacy Protection Agency, HHS, and the IAPP as sources, and asks Eudia to flag anything requiring changes to vendor contract terms, along with effective dates. In place of a periodic manual sweep, the team reads a short, sourced brief each morning.
The same setup applies across the monitoring in-house teams carry every day. Product counsel follows new state privacy and AI laws as they pass and take effect, along with EU AI Act milestones, without checking dozens of legislature and agency sites. A trade lawyer watches sanctions designations, export control rules, and tariff changes, and briefs procurement before a shipment or contract is exposed. And a team supporting a major vendor relationship or acquisition follows its counterparties by name, catching enforcement actions, data breaches, and deal news as they surface.
Scans also reach beyond regulation. Set one up on your competitors to follow their product launches, litigation, and regulatory actions, or on your own company’s name to catch press coverage and agency mentions as they appear, so legal sees the news as early as anyone else in the business.
Your scope, your sources.You decide what counts as material, from the concepts and jurisdictions inscope to the regulators and publications your team trusts. Each scan follows instructions written in your own words.
Rigor through the busiest weeks. Scans run overnight on the schedule you set, whether the team is closing a deal or someone is out on leave. Coverage no longer depends on who remembered to check.
More time for the judgment calls. Eudia handles the search and the first summary. Your lawyers decide what a change means for the business and how to respond, with the sources already in front of them.
Horizon Scanning is available now to all Eudia customers. To see it running on the topics your team follows, schedule a demo with our team.
