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Continuous monitoring of the regulatory and policy developments that affect your certification timeline, market access, and dual-use positioning.
Monitors
Regulatory change in aerospace and defence is continuous, often non-obvious, and almost always consequential for founders. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher tracks the specific frameworks, rulemaking processes, and policy signals relevant to your technology domain and target markets, not the full regulatory universe, which is noise.
European Union Aviation Safety Agency notices of proposed amendment (NPAs), opinions, and certification specifications relevant to your technology category. Includes Urban Air Mobility (UAM) regulatory developments, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operational requirements, and type certification pathway updates. Source: EASA rulemaking portal and official journal publications.
Federal Aviation Administration notices of proposed rulemaking (NPRMs), final rules, and advisory circulars covering your technology domain. Includes FAA UAS Integration Pilot Program developments and Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) regulatory evolution. Source: Federal Register.
European Commission updates to the dual-use goods regulation (EU 2021/821), control list amendments, and guidance on emerging technologies including autonomous systems, advanced sensors, and propulsion technologies. Source: EUR-Lex and European Commission trade pages.
SECO (State Secretariat for Economic Affairs) updates to Swiss export control lists, dual-use licensing requirements, and alignment with EU and Wassenaar Arrangement changes. Directly relevant to Swiss-incorporated ventures with international sales intent.
US International Traffic in Arms Regulations and Export Administration Regulations updates relevant to aerospace and defence technology. Category VIII (aircraft and related articles), Category XI (military electronics), and EAR dual-use commodity classifications. Source: Federal Register, BIS website.
NATO standardisation agreements (STANAGs) relevant to your technology domain, Allied Command Transformation (ACT) technology priority signals, and European Defence Agency (EDA) capability development plan updates.
Budget announcements, capability priority statements, and procurement strategy documents from Switzerland (DDPS/armasuisse), Germany (BMVg), France (DGA), UK (MOD), and key NATO partners, specifically where they signal technology investment priorities aligned with your domain.
Delivers
Every week, the Synthetic Regulatory Watcher produces a structured regulatory brief covering the developments most relevant to your venture. The format is designed for a founder who needs to know what changed, what it means for their timeline, and what to do about it, not a lawyer writing a compliance memo.
A structured summary of regulatory and policy developments in the past seven days relevant to your technology domain and target markets. Includes: what changed, which authority issued it, the effective or comment deadline date, and a one-paragraph implication for your venture specifically.
When a regulatory development affects your likely certification route, adding a requirement, opening a new pathway, or closing an existing one, the brief calls this out explicitly with a recommended follow-up action.
When a regulatory body opens a public consultation or comment period relevant to your technology domain, the brief flags it immediately with the deadline and a summary of what is being proposed.
Sent outside the weekly cycle when a significant regulatory event occurs, a major rulemaking finalised, a new dual-use classification applied to a technology adjacent to yours, or a national government announcing a policy that materially affects your market access.
Every three months, a structured overview of where the regulatory landscape stands across your key jurisdictions, what has changed, what is pending, and what the current certification or compliance pathway looks like for your specific technology.
Replaces
Role
Regulatory consultant on retainer
Cost
CHF 300–400/hour · typically 5–10 hours/month minimum engagement
Time to value
2–4 weeks to find, brief, and onboard a relevant specialist
A regulatory consultant with aerospace certification experience bills CHF 300–400 per hour in the Swiss market. A minimum useful engagement runs five to ten hours per month, CHF 1,500–4,000 monthly, and the consultant needs briefing on your specific technology and target markets before producing anything useful. That briefing itself costs hours. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher is pre-configured for aerospace and defence regulatory domains, active from week one, and costs CHF 900 per month. It does not replace a regulatory lawyer for formal certification submissions, it gives you the intelligence to arrive at those conversations prepared.
Scope
The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher is a monitoring and intelligence function. It is not a compliance function and is not a substitute for qualified legal or regulatory advice.
It monitors and summarises regulatory developments. It does not interpret how specific regulations apply to your specific product or situation. Engage a qualified regulatory specialist for formal certification strategy.
It tracks the regulatory environment. It does not prepare, file, or manage certification documentation.
It is configured for your primary target markets and technology domain. If you need coverage of an additional jurisdiction, specify it when deploying.
Monitoring policy signals is not the same as engaging with policymakers. For active lobbying or standards participation, human relationships are required.
For
A technical founder building in a regulated aerospace or defence domain, unmanned systems, propulsion, advanced avionics, dual-use technology, space systems, who does not have a regulatory specialist in-house and cannot afford one on retainer. You know your technology roadmap. You do not know what is changing in the regulatory environment around it, on what timeline, and what it means for your certification strategy or market access. Missing a rulemaking comment deadline or misunderstanding a dual-use classification can cost months. The Synthetic Regulatory Watcher closes that gap continuously.
Configured for your technology domain and target markets from week one. Weekly brief every Monday. Immediate alerts for significant developments. Cancel anytime after the first month.
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