ReguAction: AI Compliance & Deep Intelligence Engine ⚖️🤖

Most scrapers give you a wall of text. ReguAction gives you a cited, executable action plan.

Legal advice is expensive. Reading 100-page regulatory PDFs is slow. ReguAction is a high-performance "Market Intelligence Engine" designed for the Apify $1M Challenge that bridges the gap between dense regulatory jargon and business execution.

Simply provide a URL (from the FTC, OSHA, EU Eur-Lex, or any government portal), and the Actor performs a Deep Scan—identifying, reading, and synthesizing everything from the main page to the hidden PDF attachments into a single, grounded compliance report.

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🚀 Why ReguAction is "Institutional-Grade"

While basic scrapers fail when content is buried in PDFs or sub-links, ReguAction operates as an Intelligent Agent:

• Deep Discovery (Agent Mode): It doesn't just scrape one page. It "hunts" for blue links—specifically looking for penalties, enforcement rules, and PDF documents—crawling up to 150 sources in a single run.
• PDF Intelligence (OCR-Ready): Built-in document parsing allows the Actor to "read" legal filings and inflation-adjustment notices where the actual dollar amounts for fines are often hidden.
• Strict Grounding & Citations: Unlike generic AI summaries that hallucinate, every penalty and requirement extracted by ReguAction is cited with a Source ID (e.g., [Source: ftc.gov/rules]), so you can verify the truth instantly.
• Elastic Architecture (Future-Proof): Built for the 2026 era of LLMs. It supports context windows from 10k to 5,000,000 characters, allowing you to use next-gen models like GPT-5, Claude 4.5, or Gemini 3 Pro to their full potential.
• Free-Plan Optimized: Engineered to run on 1 CPU / 1GB RAM. It uses "Resource Surgery" to block images, fonts, and CSS, making your deep legal research 10x faster and cheaper.

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📊 What Intelligence does ReguAction extract?

ReguAction transforms messy legal portals into a clean, business-oriented dashboard:

Data Point	Description
Plain English Summary	A concise brief of what the law actually means for your specific business type.
Required Actions	A bulleted, cited checklist of tasks your company must complete to stay compliant.
Specific Penalties	Exact dollar amounts (fines) and risks found across all scanned pages and PDFs.
Deadlines	Critical timeframes for comments, implementation, or filings.
Source Citations	Direct links to the specific document where each fact was found.
Scan Status	Verification of deep context gathering and AI grounding.

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🛠 How to Use

1. Paste a Regulation URL: Any government, legal, or policy page.
2. Define Your Context: Tell the AI your Business Type (e.g., "SaaS Startup" or "Fintech") for a tailored plan.
3. Set Your Depth: Adjust the Crawl Budget (links to follow) and Intelligence Depth (total characters) based on your AI account tier.
4. BYOK (Bring Your Own Key): Plug in your API key for OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok, or DeepSeek.

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🔑 How to get your AI API Key (BYOK)

Not a developer? No problem. To activate the AI Intelligence Layer, you just need to paste a "Key" from your favorite AI provider. Here is where to get them:

• OpenAI (GPT-4o/5+): Create a key at platform.openai.com.
• Anthropic (Claude 4/4.5): Create a key at console.anthropic.com.
• Google Gemini (3.0 Pro/Flash): Create a key at aistudio.google.com.
• DeepSeek: Create a key at platform.deepseek.com (Select Custom in the Actor provider menu).
• Grok (xAI): Create a key at console.x.ai (Select Custom in the Actor provider menu).

Security Note: Your keys are processed in-memory during the run and are never stored or logged by the Actor or the platform.

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📺 Demo Video

Watch the full walkthrough of how to use ReguAction to navigate complex regulatory portals, parse legal PDFs, and generate a 100% grounded compliance action plan:

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💰 Pricing: Professional Intelligence at a Fraction of the Cost

ReguAction uses a Pay-per-Event model. You only pay for the intelligence you consume. We also offer significant discounts (up to 76%) for Apify Power Users on the Scale and Business plans.

• Actor Start Fee: $0.20
  (Covers the Deep Discovery phase: launching the browser, following up to 30 sub-links, and parsing legal PDFs).
• Per Regulation Analysis: $0.10
  (Covers the Intelligence Layer: AI reasoning, strict grounding, and the final cited action plan).

💎 Tiered Discounts for Apify Subscribers

We reward institutional users. If you are on a paid Apify plan, your costs drop significantly:

Apify Plan	Start Fee	Per Analysis	Total per Scan	Saving
Base (Free)	$0.20	$0.10	$0.30	-
Starter	$0.15	$0.07	$0.22	26%
Scale	$0.10	$0.05	$0.15	50%
Business	$0.05	$0.02	$0.07	76%

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⚖️ Ethics & Privacy

ReguAction is designed for ethical research. It only extracts publicly available regulatory data. It does not scrape personal data or bypass paywalls.

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📖 Intelligence Layer Sample

Input

{
  "regulationUrl": "https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/can-spam-rule",
  "businessType": "SaaS Startup",
  "maxContextChars": 200000,
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 30,
  "llmProvider": "openai",
  "modelName": "gpt-5"
}

Output (The Result)

Required Actions	Penalties	Summary
• Include a clear opt-out mechanism in every marketing email [Source: ftc.gov]	• Civil penalties up to $54,462 per individual email violation [Source: Jan 2026 Inflation Adj. PDF]	This regulation requires SaaS Startups to ensure that their marketing automation tools comply with specific header and footer requirements...
• Honor recipient opt-out requests within 10 business days [Source: ftc.gov]	• Potential for permanent injunctions and brand damage [Source: Legal Library Hub]	Failure to include a valid physical postal address is a primary trigger for enforcement in the 2026 fiscal year.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Why is ReguAction hosted on the Apify platform? We chose Apify because they are the gold standard for reliable web automation. By running ReguAction here, you don't need to worry about servers, proxies, or complex setups. Apify provides a clean, secure environment that allows you to turn a simple scan into a "set-it-and-forget-it" compliance assistant.

Does it work with non-English regulations? Yes! Since the Actor uses a "Bring Your Own Key" (BYOK) AI model, it is naturally multilingual. You can provide a URL in Spanish, French, or German and simply ask the Actor to "Provide the action plan in English" via the Business Type field.

Is my API key safe? Absolutely. Your AI API keys are processed only in the volatile memory of the run and are never stored, logged, or shared. ReguAction acts as a secure "pass-through" to your chosen AI provider.

What happens if I encounter a "Rate Limit" or "Token" error? Regulatory documents can be massive! If you hit a limit with your AI provider, simply adjust the Intelligence Depth (Max Characters) slider in the input settings. Setting it to 100,000 characters is the "sweet spot" for most standard AI accounts.

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📜 Version History

Version 1.0 (Current)

• Deep Discovery (Agent Mode): Implemented recursive link-following logic to find hidden regulatory sub-pages and enforcement updates.
• PDF Intelligence: Integrated pdf-parse engine to ingest legal filings and inflation-adjustment notices directly into the AI context.
• Strict Grounding: Developed the "Groundedness" prompt architecture to prevent AI hallucinations and enforce direct text citations.
• Elastic Context Window: Added user-controlled character limits to support massive 2026-era LLMs (GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro).
• Universal BYOK Adapter: Created a provider-agnostic bridge for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Custom OpenAI-compatible endpoints (DeepSeek, Grok).
• Institutional Pricing: Launched tiered Pay-per-Event pricing with 76% discounts for enterprise users.

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