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PolicySpeak

Questions

The things people ask us most, answered before you have to book a call.

What exactly do you cover?

EU-level: legislative files with their Parliament and Council tracks, delegated and implementing acts followed individually, Commission consultations and every published response, the committee and Council calendar, and profiles of the people deciding.

The numbers, the institutions and the things we deliberately leave out are all on what we cover.

Where does our data live, and who can see it?

In the EU, encrypted in transit and at rest. Your organization’s workspace is separated from every other client’s. Your documents and positions are yours: they are not used to train anything, and they are not shared between clients.

When a contract ends you can export what you put in and what was produced for you. The detail, including our sub-processors under a signed agreement, is in the Trust Center.

Who writes the drafts?

You do. PolicySpeak produces a first version from your own agreed positions and from the record it has been reading, with every factual claim carrying a marker back to the source it came from. Nothing is sent anywhere by the platform.

The point is not to hand you finished prose. It is to remove the ninety minutes of assembling what is already known so the argument is yours to make.

How is it scoped?

By organization, not by seat. Your whole team uses it — policy, comms, the people who only ever read the morning email — without you counting licences or deciding who is senior enough to have access.

Scope follows the policy areas and files you track. Tell us what you work on and we will tell you what it costs.

How is this different from a monitoring service?

Most tools stop after the flagging. You get told something happened and the work starts there: read it, decide whether it matters, find your position, write the note, work out who to talk to.

PolicySpeak carries on past that point — what changed since the last version, what your organization has already said about it, the draft that follows from those positions, and the person to raise it with. Several of our clients keep a news service alongside us. They answer different questions.

How much work is it to get going?

A guided setup: tell it your policy areas and the files you already care about, and the first briefing arrives the next morning. Adding your existing position papers makes the drafting useful, and that can happen in week two.

The honest risk is not installation, it is adoption. Teams that get value fastest are the ones where the daily email lands for everyone from day one, because most people never open a platform at all.

Who else uses it?

European trade associations and corporate public-affairs teams in Brussels, including organizations you would recognize. Several are named on a call — we do not publish client names without asking them first, and we would extend the same courtesy to you.

Do you have leaks?

No. We publish what the institutions publish. If your work depends on what was said behind a closed door, a journalist-led service does that and we do not.

Is it personal to me, or to my organization?

Both, deliberately. The files and people your organization tracks are shared, so the work survives someone leaving. What you personally follow, and the briefing that arrives at your hour, is yours.

Does it work with what we already run?

It is a workspace in the browser, not something your IT team has to install. It connects to common CRM and document tools where that saves duplicate typing, and everything can be exported. Tell us what you run and we will be straight about what connects today.

Can we get our data out?

Yes. Briefings, files, stakeholder records and documents export in formats you can hand to a colleague or a board — Word, PDF, spreadsheet. Nothing is trapped.

Does it read sources that are not in English?

Yes. Sources in any EU language are read and shown to you in English, with the original one click away and labelled, so you can check the wording that actually matters.

Can you tell us what is going to happen?

We tell you what is scheduled and what has moved — the next committee date, the scrutiny deadline, the window closing. We do not predict votes, and we would be suspicious of anyone who says they can.

Something we have not answered?

You can see a real piece of what we do without talking to anyone: Who Filed What is free, public, and built on the same record the platform runs on. Otherwise ask us and a founder will reply.