Never get blindsided
by a regulation change again.
Each week, Watchdog HQ reads the regulatory and industry sources your team can't keep up with. Briefing on top — each major topic consolidated to a single exec summary, scannable in minutes. Detail below — drill in only on the items that affect your agency, or forward to the right colleague. Deadline-dated. In your inbox Monday.
HMRC · Apr–Sep 2025
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their #1 challenge
industry voices
Three steps.
One quiet inbox.
We do the reading. You get the verdict. The service runs on rails every week — open the brief, get on with your day.
We read everything
Regulatory and industry sources — official, interpretive, and practical. UK government and regulators, professional bodies, leading solicitor firms, and the trade press. We add when regulation moves; you never maintain a feed list.
AI triages and prioritises
AI categorises each item: Verify, Watch, or FYI. Every brief passes a multi-rule quality gate. Every send is human-reviewed.
You read it Monday
One email. Three minutes. Clear actions, deadline-dated. Forward urgent items to your team or your solicitor as needed.
Not every source
tells the same story.
Government tells you what changed. Experts tell you what it means. We cut the noise — you decide and act.
What changed
Direct from UK government, regulators, and statutory redress bodies — the authoritative record of what has actually changed.
What it means
Expert analysis from professional bodies and law firms.
What to do
Trade press, vendor guidance, and member-org reference material — distilled into clear actions in your brief.
Early insight into upcoming legislation
Parliament, consultations and Lords scrutiny — we flag regulation while it's still a bill, so a change never lands on you unannounced.
Curated for your week,
not added to it.
You already get more compliance email than you can read. Watchdog HQ gives you one weekly editorial brief of what's changed and why it matters — a second set of eyes across the regulatory and industry sources you don't have time to read, alongside your own.
60+ sources,
continuously scanned.
GOV.UK, HMRC, CMA, ICO, legislation.gov.uk, NTSEAT, The Property Ombudsman, UK Parliament Bills, GOV.UK consultations, the Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee, Propertymark, NRLA, leading solicitor firms, and the trade press. We add sources when regulation moves; you never maintain a feed list.
Triaged by AI.
Checked by editors.
Our models do the heavy lifting — deduplicating, summarising, ranking. A human editor checks every brief for formatting and obvious errors before it sends. Faster than a feed reader. Clearer than reading the source itself.
Vertical-specific.
Nothing irrelevant.
Estate agents only see what applies to estate agents. No AML for accountants, no CQC for care homes. Each vertical has its own source list and its own editorial lens.
Never forget
an active deadline.
A regulation lands on Monday; its deadline is six weeks away. It appears in every brief between now and the day it's due — with any new HMRC clarifications or Propertymark guidance threaded into the same item as they're published. On the day itself, the brief escalates to "Due today — Act." Miss nothing, chase nothing.
See it coming
before it's law.
We track a change through its whole life — open consultation, Bill readings, Royal Assent, the commencement order that switches it on. The same item carries forward across your weekly briefs as it moves through Parliament, with its current stage flagged, so the rule isn't a surprise on the day it bites — you've had weeks of warning.
See what's coming: explore the live regulatory deadline calendar →
Hot Topics — when
sources converge.
When multiple sources discuss the same rule, we show you all perspectives — government, expert and industry — in one place. So you see the pattern before the penalty.
Briefing + Detail.
Read both or just the brief.
Every brief is structured in two halves: a five-minute Briefing on top with the headline of every item, and a full Detail section below. Managers skim the Briefing, decide what's worth their time, and forward the Detail to the right colleague — landlord lead, training, accounts. Nothing is hidden behind a paywall or "more on the dashboard" link.
Outlook-friendly.
Dark-mode ready.
The email template is table-safe for Outlook and tuned for Gmail and Apple Mail. Dark-mode aware. Plain-text fallback included. A surprisingly rare thing, tested on every send.
Two plans.
Everything included.
Solo agent or whole team — same brief, same sources, same quality gate. Monthly rolling, cancel any time. First vertical is Estate Agents; more coming this year. Watchdog HQ starts at £1.63 a day + VAT — set against the £835K of estate-agent fines HMRC issued in the first half of 2025.
Solo · Single seat
30 days free · Card required
- Weekly Brief — in your inbox Monday
- Regulatory and industry sources, scanned weekly
- Three-tier prioritisation with action steps
- Deadline countdowns with proposed actions
- multi-rule AI quality gate + human review
- Hot Topics cross-source analysis
Team · Multi-seat
30 days free · Card required
- Everything in Solo, plus:
- Forward and distribute the brief freely inside your company
- No seat counts — share with anyone in the business
- Single invoice and billing contact
- Multiple companies or a network? Email us for pricing
A few things
people ask.
Is this legal advice?
No. Watchdog HQ is an information service. Every alert links to the official source document. We recommend consulting a qualified professional for complex matters.
How long does it take to read?
The Briefing at the top is structured for fast scanning: each major regulatory topic is consolidated into a single exec summary covering every material change that week — regulators named, statutes cited, deadlines and £-figures included. Smaller topics get a one-line headline. A "See detail items X-Y" link drops you into the full Detail half for source links and suggested approaches. A manager typically gets the week's signal from the Briefing alone in under ten minutes — longer on heavy regulatory weeks. The Detail section is the full version with summaries, deadlines, suggested approaches and source links — read what affects you, forward what doesn't to the colleague the item gets delegated to.
How is this different from a regulator newsletter?
Regulators tell you what they've published. We tell you what's changed across every relevant regulator, professional body and solicitor firm — then rank it, date it, and recommend an action. We're the editorial layer above the source material.
Is an AI really making compliance judgements?
No — we're filtering noise, not adding interpretation. AI does the heavy lifting: scanning sources, deduplication, summarisation, urgency ranking against a multi-rule quality gate. A human gives every brief a final pass for formatting and obvious errors before send. The model keeps improving with use; we just point its output at the regulations that carry penalties so you don't miss them. Every alert links to the original source — verify in thirty seconds.
How are deadlines tracked?
Once a regulation with a deadline hits a brief, we carry it forward every Monday until the day it's due. New guidance from HMRC, the Ombudsman or solicitor firms gets threaded into the same item — you see one entry with a running history, not scattered reposts. The day the deadline arrives, the brief says "Due today — Act." The day after, the item drops. Forward to whoever needs to see it — your team, an accountant, a compliance lead — the original source links travel with the item.
Will I hear about a change before it becomes law?
Yes — that's the point of the progression sources. We monitor UK Parliament Bills, GOV.UK consultations, the Lords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee and legislation.gov.uk commencement orders, so a change is caught while it's still an open consultation or a Bill in progress — not on the day it takes effect. The item carries forward across your weekly briefs as it moves — consultation, Bill readings, Royal Assent, commencement — with its current stage flagged each week, so you get weeks of warning rather than a surprise on the deadline. We're an information service, not a forecaster: we report where a change actually is in the process, not predict whether it will pass.
How does the trial work?
You sign up with your card but aren't charged for 30 days. If it's not for you, cancel with one click from the "Manage subscription" link in any email — you'll never be charged. If you stay, billing starts after the trial ends at your chosen plan rate: £49/month Solo or £199/month Team, + VAT.
What happens when I cancel?
Every email includes a "Manage subscription" link. Click it and you're taken straight to your account page to cancel instantly — no phone calls, no forms, no hoops. You can also email hello@watchdog-hq.co.uk and we'll cancel within 24 hours. No data retention gotchas, no export fees.
Which regulations are covered for Estate Agents?
Money Laundering Regulations (HMRC supervision), Consumer Protection Regulations, DMCC, Material Information A/B/C, Tenant Fees Act, Client Money Protection, GDPR/UK DPA, Estate Agents Act, Renters' Rights Act, Leasehold Reform, and current professional body codes (TPO, Propertymark). Plus trade-press commentary and tribunal decisions.
This list grows as the market moves. Our scrapers monitor the source feeds directly, so when HMRC, the ICO, the CMA or any other regulator publishes something new, it's picked up the day it appears — you don't have to ask us to add it. As new bodies enter the regulatory landscape we add them; when ones go quiet we retire them.
Are other verticals coming?
Yes. Estate Agents is first. The same infrastructure is being rolled out for other regulated professional verticals through 2026. If you want priority access for a vertical, get in touch.
Can I share the brief with colleagues?
Solo (£49/mo) is one named recipient. Team (£199/mo) lets you forward and distribute the brief freely inside your company — any branch, any office, no seat counts. If you operate multiple companies or a network, email hello@watchdog-hq.co.uk and we'll sort custom pricing.