How it works

Map. Watch. Brief.

You tell us where you are licensed and what you hold. We read what those states publish and weigh every change against that profile. On Monday you get one brief: only what touches you, with the deadline and the action spelled out.

Nothing here is a dashboard you have to visit. The product's job is to be quiet until it is not.

Step 01 · Map

Map your footprint

In one line: you tell us your states, we watch the agencies that license them, and you get one brief a week plus an immediate note when something has a deadline attached.

Add the states you operate in and the licence classes you hold — infant and toddler, preschool, school-age, home-based. That is your watched universe, and everything downstream is measured against it.

  • Per-jurisdiction licence profile. A centre in Ohio holding an infant licence is not watched like a school-age programme in Maryland. The profile is per centre, per class.
  • Multi-state by design. The unit of pricing and of coverage is the jurisdiction, because that is the unit the rules are written in.
  • Set up in minutes. States, centres, licence classes. No integration, no data migration, nothing to connect.
  • An unknown licence class is refused, not guessed. If we cannot watch something, the profile says so at the moment you add it — rather than quietly guaranteeing you zero alerts forever.
Radar workspace · centre profile illustrative
Maple & 3rd Infant Center
Columbus
Franklin County
OH
43215
Infant Toddler Preschool School-age Home-based
This is the whole setup. What you tick here is exactly what the watch measures against.
Step 02 · Watch

We keep the watch

We read the registers your rules actually change in and weigh every change against your profile — then interpret it in plain English, so the question you answer is "does this touch us?" and not "what does this paragraph mean?"

  • One federal watch is running today; no state watch has started. A state is lit when a customer brings it — that is what the per-jurisdiction price buys, and the panel opposite is the live position, not a projection.
  • Your state does not start from nothing. Separately from anyone's coverage, the corpus already reads 52 jurisdictions' rules daily, longest-waiting first — 841 rule documents archived with their own evidence trail, plus 29 leading indicators watching rulemaking before it becomes law. Lighting a state moves that existing watch into your coverage, with a dated receipt and an SLA behind it. Both layers, stated apart →
  • Relevance-scored per state. A change is scored against the jurisdictions and licence classes you actually hold, not against childcare in general.
  • Weighed against your licence types. An infant-ratio change reaches a centre with an infant licence. It does not reach one without.
  • Plain-English interpretation. What changed, and what it means for an operator — not a link to a PDF and good luck.
  • A quiet watch is not the same as a clear week. If a source could not be read, that is named in the brief in words and the "no changes" reading is withheld for that watch.
Coverage · what is being watched live today
Federal Register
running since 24 July 2026
Healthy
Ohio — Dept. of Job & Family Services
starts the day a customer lights Ohio
Not started
Maryland — COMAR, Title 13A
starts the day a customer lights Maryland
Not started
This is the real state of the watch, not a mock-up. One federal watch is running; no state watch has been started yet. A state is lit when a customer brings it, and coverage is claimed from that date — never backdated to before we were looking.
The watchmotif
Every change the watch catches is also published, dated and cited, to the public changelog.
Between the steps · delivery

It reaches you five ways, and the status page proves each one alive

A change is caughtarchived · hashed · scored
Urgent emailwithin the watch cycle, when a deadline is close — rare by design
Signed webhookHMAC-signed POST to your systems, every severity — machines filter for themselves
Monday briefthe week, weighed and ordered — quiet weeks say so
Monthly reportthe prior month as a document: caught, acted, open, on the record
/v1 APIyour systems pull the same truth, key-scoped and revocable
Step 03 · Brief

You hear in time

Only what touches you, with the deadline and the action spelled out. It arrives as The Selah Brief on Monday morning — and on a week when nothing changed, it says so in one line and takes none of your time.

  • Ranked by relevance and deadline. The thing that closes first sits at the top.
  • What changed, and what to do. Each item carries the action and the window, not just a citation.
  • Monday, and only Monday. One arrival a week is the whole promise. We would rather be the thing you are not bracing for.
  • An empty week publishes nothing. A brief that says "nothing changed" is a real result, and we send it as one.
The Selah Brief · Monday illustrative · fictional
3 changes, 1 needs action
Week of 3 August · 6 centres watched
Act now Ohio — staff-to-child ratio revised for toddler rooms Window closes 28 Aug — act before the 4 Sep effective date. 3 centres
Plan this week Franklin County — fire-inspection certificate must be filed electronically Window closes 15 Sep — act before the 1 Oct effective date. 2 centres
For your records Maryland — background-check attestation form updated Window closes 11 Sep — relevance fades from detection. 1 centre
Coverage gap: Maryland — COMAR. We could not complete the watch this week. No “no change” reading is claimed for this watch.
The rows above are invented, and show the shape of the brief for a three-state operator once those states are lit. Today one federal watch is running — the panel in step 02 is the live position. Real detections are published on the changelog.
What gets weighed

The categories a licensing change actually lands in

Every change is classified into one shared set of categories before it is scored, so an alert can be traced to the kind of obligation it touches — and so a week's worth of them can be counted.

Ratios & group size
Staff-to-child ratios, maximum group size, mixed-age rules
Background checks
Fingerprinting, renewal cycles, disqualifying offences
Staff qualifications
Credentials, director requirements, annual training hours
Physical plant
Square footage, playground, egress, equipment
Health & safety
Safe sleep, immunisation, medication, illness exclusion
Food service
Nutrition standards, allergy handling, kitchen requirements
Transportation
Vehicle standards, driver rules, supervision in transit
Reporting & retention
Incident reporting, record retention, posting requirements
Step 04 · The clock

A rule change is four timestamps, and only one of them measures us

Everyone in this category tells you something changed. That is the easy half. The hard half is the clock it started — when it becomes binding, how much room you have left, and whether anybody can prove when we knew.

the source published we caught it it binds you closed it knowable caught effective closed latency · ours the only interval that measures us notice · the agency’s however long they chose to give you margin · yours below zero is a miss
  • Latency is ours, and we publish it. The gap between a rule becoming knowable from a primary source and us catching it. It is the only one of the three that measures SELAHAI rather than an agency or you — which is exactly why it is the one we put in writing.
  • Notice is the agency’s. Ninety days or nine, it is their choice and not our achievement. We never lead with it.
  • Margin is yours. How much room was left when you closed. Below zero is a miss, and a miss is a fact about a calendar day in your own jurisdiction — not about the hour our server noticed.

What that looks like in the workspace

Deadlines Illustrative
−6dpassed
Toddler-room ratio revised to 1:6
OhioOAC 5180:2-12-18bound 5 Aug
Passed unclosed
8days left
Annual training hours raised to 24
Federal · CCDF45 CFR 98.44caught 2 days before publication
Open
closed
Medication administration policy update
Ohioclosed with 12 days to spareevidence attached
Closed
excluded
Outdoor play space per child increased
Ohiobound before we watched your Ohio centres
Before we watched

The last row is the one worth reading. It is excluded from every figure above it and says why on its face — it is not a miss, and a screen that hid it would be quietly flattering us.

What it does not do

The limits, stated on the page that sells it

  • It is not legal advice. We tell you a rule changed and what it appears to require. Whether your operation complies is a judgement for you and your counsel.
  • It does not watch what we have not started watching. Coverage begins the day a watch starts, and the coverage surface shows you the date. We do not backfill a claim to before we were looking.
  • It does not replace your licensing specialist. It gives them a shorter, dated list to work from, and a record of what was already actioned.
  • It is one arrival a week. Monday, and only Monday. If you need a live console that pages you at 2am, this is the wrong product and we would rather say so here.
Start the watch

Tell us your states. We will take it from there.

Priced per jurisdiction, because that is the unit the rules are written in. The first ten design partners run free for sixty days, all states included.