A policy research analyst that reads the actual bill
It reads the actual bill and hands back a sourced brief with section citations, agency dates and the dissenting view.
Hand it a question and you get back a sourced brief with section citations, agency dates and the dissenting view.
What a junior analyst spends three days on
A markup gets scheduled, a rule drops on regulations.gov, a committee posts an amended version at 4:40pm. Now someone on your team has to read 90 pages, check what changed against the introduced version and tell the principal what it means before the morning call. That work is real, but most of it is fetching.
The agent does the fetching. Give it a bill number or a question and it browses the full text on Congress.gov or your state legislature site. It pulls the CRS summary if one exists, reads the agency NPRM and the comment count, and checks the listed sponsors and committee. The brief it writes has inline citations back to the exact source. When your director asks "where does it say that," you have the section number.
It works the way a research desk works:
- Reads primary documents end to end: bill text, Federal Register notices, dockets and CBO scores, beyond the headlines that summarize them
- Cites every claim to a URL and a section, and flags when a source is secondary or can't be found
- Tracks a bill or docket across versions and tells you what changed between the introduced and reported text
- Calls legislative and Federal Register APIs directly when you have a key, so it pulls structured status without scraping
- Drafts the brief into Notes or a shared Sheet, and emails it to the distribution list on a schedule you set
When the comment period dates aren't posted yet, or a fiscal note hasn't been filed, the brief says so and lists where it looked.
A research product you can't trace is worse than no product. Traceability is the whole design.
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Frequently asked questions
Does it actually read the bill or just summarize the summary?
It reads the full text. The official summary or CRS overview is one input, but every claim in the brief gets checked against the bill or rule itself, and the citation points to the section.
How do I know it isn't making citations up?
It cites a URL and section for each claim and browses to that source to ground it. When it can't find a source for something, it says so explicitly and leaves the gap visible. You can click every link to verify before circulating.
Can it cover state legislatures as well as Congress?
Yes. It browses state legislature sites and regulatory portals the same way it browses Congress.gov. For sites with an API and a key, it can call that directly for cleaner status data.
Can it watch a bill and tell me when it moves?
Yes. Set a scheduled sweep or a trigger on the docket. When an amended version or a new Federal Register notice appears, it reads the change, diffs it and emails you what's different. You don't have to check by hand.
Will it just give me both-sides mush?
No. It states what the text does, then lays out the positions on record for and against, with attribution. Where the evidence is one-sided, it says so plainly.
How much does it cost?
Start with a 7-day free trial. Full access, no card needed. Then $49 per month. Setup takes about four minutes: name the agent, tell it your topics and jurisdictions, paste any API keys you have, and it starts researching. It's in public beta.
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