AI regulatory intelligence
AI regulatory intelligence for U.S. federal rulemaking
ComtIQ analyzes the public comment record of federal dockets with AI and an analyst. You learn who commented, which arguments can move the final rule, where the rule is likely to land and, once it is final, how the agency answered.
Federal rulemaking comment analysis
Reading a docket the way the agency has to read it.
Under the Administrative Procedure Act, an agency must respond to significant comments, and a court can set aside a rule that ignored an important aspect of the problem. Comment counts do not decide that. Arguments do. ComtIQ separates campaign letters from substantive filings, identifies the organizations behind each position and ranks the arguments that a final rule will have to answer.
On the Labor Department's independent contractor rule, for example, four forms wrote 95.9% of the typed comments, while the arguments a court would weigh sat in 170 attached letters.
Docket analysis with AI and an analyst
AI sorts the record. An analyst checks what matters.
AI reads every comment and every attachment, groups near-duplicate comments, tags stance and topic and pulls the passages behind each argument. An analyst checks every key finding and every number against the dated snapshot before release. Random samples are coded by hand, the agreement between the AI and that hand coding is measured with Cohen's kappa, and shares carry 95% intervals.
What you receive
Reports, monitoring and custom research.
A Regulatory Intelligence Report covers one docket milestone. Regulatory Monitoring sends a weekly digest across the dockets you follow. Docket Analysis follows one docket from comment period to final rule. White-label reports carry a consulting firm's brand, and custom research answers a question you define, with a briefing call.
How this differs from regulatory tracking
Tracking tells you a rule exists. ComtIQ reads what people said about it.
Regulatory tracking and change-management tools alert you that a rule was proposed or published and map it to your obligations. ComtIQ works one step earlier and one level deeper. It reads the comment record itself, so you see the arguments, the coalitions and the likely outcome before the final text arrives.
Examples
Published reports
- DOL independent contractor rule, WHD-2026-0001. Who wrote 16,498 comments, the four forms behind 95.9% of the typed ones, and the arguments the final rule has to answer.
- FAA drone rules, Parts 108 and 74. Two linked dockets read together, with the organizations that filed in both.
- EPA endangerment finding rescission, EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194. The gap between 571,676 comments received and 30,929 visible to the public.
- BLM oil and gas leasing, BLM-2025-0037. Which provisions are likely to change before the agency decides.
- FAA commercial space waiver, FAA-2026-8614. Launch companies back the waiver and split over how far it should reach.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
- What is AI regulatory intelligence for federal rulemaking?
- It is analysis of what is happening in a rulemaking that a team can act on. For a federal rule, the largest source is the public comment record. ComtIQ uses AI to sort that record by template, stance, topic and argument, and an analyst checks every key finding against the comments themselves.
- How does ComtIQ analyze public comments on a federal docket?
- We collect every posted comment and attachment from Regulations.gov as a dated snapshot, group duplicate and campaign letters, identify the organizations that filed, and rank the arguments by how hard they would be for the agency to dismiss. Every number in a report links back to a comment a reader can open.
- Which dockets can you analyze?
- Any federal docket with a public comment record on Regulations.gov. Our published reports cover rules from the Department of Labor, the EPA, the Bureau of Land Management and the FAA.
- Does ComtIQ use its own software?
- Yes. ComtIQ built its own software to collect a docket, read every comment and attachment and draft the analysis, and an analyst checks every key finding. You receive reports, monitoring alerts and custom research by email, with nothing to install.
- How reliable are the forecasts?
- Each forecast states a likelihood on a fixed scale, a confidence level, the evidence behind it and what would change the view. We log every forecast before the rule is published and score it afterward, so our record can be checked.
- Is this legal advice?
- No. ComtIQ reports are analysis of the public record. They help counsel and decision makers see the arguments and the likely outcomes, and they do not replace legal advice.
- How much does a report cost?
- Our first reports are free while we build, and we are not taking payment yet. Request a report on your docket and we will reply about scope and timing.