
Regula
Real-time regulatory intelligence platform for emerging-market FinTechs
FinTech / RegTech · Founder · 12 months · Team of 1
Problem
FinTech SMBs in emerging markets struggle to monitor fragmented, fast-changing regulations across websites, PDFs, and circulars, leading to high compliance workload and non-compliance risk.
Context
Legacy RegTech tools are expensive and focused on US/EU enterprise markets, leaving emerging-market teams with manual monitoring and limited local coverage.
Strategy
Build an automation-first, region-focused compliance intelligence product with continuous crawling, AI summarization, impact scoring, and affordable SMB pricing.
Architecture
Multi-tenant Next.js full-stack app with PostgreSQL + Drizzle, background workflows via Inngest, crawl and extraction via Crawl4AI, AI analysis via Gemini, notifications via email/webhooks, and storage/caching using S3 and Redis.
Execution
Implemented end-to-end monitoring pipeline (target setup -> crawl -> version diff -> AI analysis -> alerting), compliance workspace, onboarding wizard, billing/usage controls, and legal/privacy foundations for SaaS operations.
Challenges
Maintaining crawl reliability across regulator site changes/anti-bot behavior, reducing false positives, handling legal/compliance constraints around public-data scraping, and scaling infra cost-effectively.
Solution
Regula automates regulatory monitoring and turns changes into prioritized, actionable alerts with audit-ready history, enabling small compliance teams to respond faster with less manual effort.
Measurable impact
Targets include up to 70% reduction in compliance workload, detection latency under 1 hour, time-to-first-alert under 48 hours for most users, and significantly lower cost than legacy enterprise RegTech tools.
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