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legal, compliance & regtech·run 005 · Apr 2026

Regulationapi

A developer-facing regulatory research service that returns versioned primary text, structured citations, and applicability questions across selected jurisdictions while leaving legal interpretation and remediation to qualified reviewers.

Genesis score0.00/10
Make Regulationapi real.0/500
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The opportunity
159,177local regulations exposed by the confirmed Korean law service in the supplied research
The case

Developers building compliance workflows often need current provisions, definitions, effective dates, amendments, and citations in a predictable format. Public sources exist, but their schemas, histories, and update practices differ. Regulationapi proposes a normalized research layer for a bounded corpus. It can retrieve and compare authority; it cannot decide that a rule applies, prescribe remediation, or replace counsel.

Who pays — and why

A legal-tech developer, compliance product team, or regulated-company engineering group needing machine-readable primary authority. The source explicitly lacks a validated buyer and budget.

Market signal$50/mo was cited as economic proof for an adjacent law service, but the research did not independently confirm that commercial figure.Observed market reference, not fixed product pricing
What it unlocks
Versioned primary text with jurisdiction, authority, effective dates, amendment chain, and retrieval timestamp
Structured search results that distinguish quoted law, machine extraction, generated summary, and reviewer interpretation
Change notifications that identify affected citations without declaring new obligations automatically
A reproducible query record with corpus version, filters, evidence, uncertainty, and corrections
How Genesis scored it
0.00across seven criteria
tension 6temporal 8blindspot 5buyer 4leverage 8convergence 10why-not 7
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Convergence

Five cross-references and thirty-three inbound links produce the strongest recorded convergence.

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Temporal window

Several 2026 mandates create timing pressure, although current status and effective dates require fresh official verification.

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Buyer persona

The source explicitly reports no validated buyer despite plausible developer and compliance teams.

Why it scored well

Five cross-references and thirty-three inbound links create strong recurrence. A confirmed foreign law service and official open portals support technical viability, while normalization and retrieval are software-leveraged.

What's holding it back

The stored score is zero and the source explicitly reports no buyer. One cited service was unverified, no structural incumbent disadvantage is established, multi-jurisdiction legal maintenance is expensive, and semantic answers can be mistaken for advice.

Signals detected3 sources crossed
SignalKorean Law API and official open-law portal review

SignalCongress, eCFR, SEC, and Genesis competitive review

SignalGenesis source verification

Direction briefregulationapi.md
regulationapi.md
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