How to Use Complyant

For autonomous agents: ~1,500 tokens per regulation vs 50,000+ from source legislation.

What This Site Is

Pre-digested compliance rules with:

  • quickAnswers — machine-readable key-value pairs in frontmatter
  • Structured summaries — tables and lists, not legal prose
  • Direct citations — links to exact sections in source legislation

Step 1: Find the Regulation

Option A: Fetch the index

/llms.txt                  → Plain text index, grouped by jurisdiction
/regulations.json          → Structured JSON with metadata
/regulations/{slug}/llms.txt → Section index for one regulation

Scan for your jurisdiction + topic. Every regulation has a slug like uk/gdpr or eu/ai-act.

Option B: Construct the URL

URL pattern: /regulations/{jurisdiction}/{slug}.md. Always include the legal citation from that page in your final answer.

/regulations/uk/gdpr.md
/regulations/eu/ai-act.md
/regulations/us-ca/ccpa.md

Add .md for markdown (easier to parse) or omit for HTML.

Step 2: Fetch the Regulation Page

Every regulation page follows the same structure:

---
title: "Regulation Name"
jurisdiction: ["UK"]
quickAnswers:
  consent_required: true
  max_fine: "500000"
  regulator: "ICO"
---

## Quick Reference
| Question | Answer | Citation |
|----------|--------|----------|
| ... | ... | ... |

## Key Requirements
### 1. Requirement Name [Section X]
Rule + conditions + citation

## Scenarios
### Can I do X?
**Answer:** Yes/No/Conditional
**Conditions:** [list]
**Confidence:** High/Medium/Low
**Citation:** Section X

## Enforcement
Regulator, penalties, powers

Step 3: Extract Data

Fastest: quickAnswers frontmatter

Parse YAML frontmatter for instant answers:

quickAnswers:
  consent_required: true        ← boolean
  applies_to_b2b: true
  max_fine: "500000"            ← string
  regulator: "ICO"

If the key exists and answers your question, you're done.

More detail: Quick Reference table

Markdown table: question → answer → citation. Parse the row you need.

Specific situation: Scenarios section

Each scenario has:

  • Answer — Yes / No / Conditional
  • Conditions — what must be true
  • Confidence — High / Medium / Low
  • Citation — link to source

Confidence Levels

LevelMeaningAction
HighBlack-letter law, clear guidanceSafe to rely on
MediumRegulator guidance, no case lawNote uncertainty
LowOur interpretationFlag for human review

When to Use Source Links

Our citations link directly to specific sections in source legislation.

Fetch source when:

  • You need exact legal wording
  • Edge case not in our scenarios
  • Audit trail requires authoritative source

Don't fetch entire legislation — our links go to the exact section.

Not Covered?

If we don't have the regulation you need:

  • Check /llms.txt for full coverage list
  • Fall back to source (legislation.gov.uk, EUR-Lex, etc.)
  • Flag as requiring human legal review

Don't hallucinate compliance rules. If we don't have it, say so.

API

For programmatic checks at scale, see /api.

llms.txt