Regulatory intelligence from the public record

Know what the comment record says before you act.

Thousands of comments arrive on a major federal rule, and almost nobody reads them all. ComtIQ reads the full record, maps who argued what and which comments came from organized campaigns, and shows you how the agency answered, before you file, litigate or invest. An analyst verifies every key finding.

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EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194

One docket, measured. The rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding.

571,676 comments received. 30,929 visible to the public. A ComtIQ report shows you what that gap means.

571,676comments received, by the government's own counter

30,929records a visitor can open in the public docket

482,049submissions declared inside 128 of those records

64 daysmedian wait between receipt and posting

Sources. Federal Register comment counter; Rulemaking Observatory collection of the full posted docket, July 2026.

How it works

Every number traces back to a comment you can open.

Each report follows the same seven steps and the same structure, so you know what you will receive. Every finding is checked by an analyst and linked back to the original comment.

Intake
Your question, your dockets, your deadline.
Collection
Every comment and attachment, saved as a dated snapshot.
Processing
Duplicates removed, campaign letters grouped, organizations identified.
Analysis
AI sorts stance, topic and arguments. An analyst reads every comment behind a key finding.
Quality check
A second person checks every number against the snapshot.
Delivery
The report and its data arrive in your inbox. Nothing new to install or learn.
Feedback
A short debrief. The next report shows what changed.

Inside a report

The bottom line first. The evidence right under it.

Every report opens with two or three sentences you can act on. Key findings carry a confidence level, forecasts use fixed likelihood terms, and an appendix links each cited comment in the docket.

At the final rule stage we match each significant argument to the agency's response, and flag the ones it left unanswered or answered thinly. The Administrative Procedure Act requires an answer to significant issues, and agencies now sort comments with AI.

Regulatory Intelligence Report · sample layout Section heads and fixed terms of every report Docket · Agency · Stage · Comment period · Data cutoff · Version

Bottom line up frontThe main finding and what it means for your decision, in two or three sentences.

Key findings

Share of the record that came from coordinated campaigns, and who sponsored themHigh confidence

Arguments ranked by how often they appear, and the new ones since the last reportModerate

Significant issues the final rule preamble did not answerLow · thin sources

Fixed likelihood terms

Almost no chanceVery unlikelyUnlikelyRoughly evenLikely 55–80%Very likelyAlmost certain

Also in every report. The record in numbers, who is commenting (individuals only in aggregate, never by name), scenarios, actions with dates, method and limits. Likelihood terms follow Intelligence Community Directive 203.

First reports

Three dockets in production, for three kinds of readers.

Each one goes out free to a different group of readers while we build. We only start a report once the comments are posted. The first free report goes to waitlist members in mid-November.

In production · mid-November 2026

EPA rescission of the endangerment finding

EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194

The February 2026 rule that ended the 2009 finding and repealed greenhouse gas standards for cars and trucks, now before the D.C. Circuit. Who spoke, what they argued, and what EPA's Response to Comments answered.

For litigants, automaker and supplier associations, health and environmental groups, and anyone commenting on the power plant proposal.

Collecting comments

BLM oil and gas leasing

BLM-2025-0037

The June 2026 proposal to rewrite the rules for federal onshore oil and gas leasing. The government counts 122,209 comments received.

For independent and mid-size producers, producing states, conservation groups and energy law firms.

Comments close November 4, 2026

FAA Part 450 launch licensing

FAA-2026-9934 · 9935 · 9936 · 9940 · 9941

Five proposals to cut the analysis and paperwork behind a commercial launch or reentry license. In at least one, FAA says it lacks the data to put a number on the savings.

For launch operators such as SpaceX and Rocket Lab, new entrants, space investors and launch insurers.

Who it is for

Anyone with a rule open for comment, a deadline ahead, and more comments than they can read.

Law firms

Regulatory and litigation practices preparing comments, petitions and challenges.

Trade associations

Knowing which arguments members and opponents filed before the agency acts.

Regulated companies

Compliance and government affairs teams sizing what a rule will cost.

Consulting and risk firms

Due diligence on a deal or portfolio that faces a pending rule.

Nonprofits and advocacy groups

Groups that today read thousands of comments by hand.

Journalists and researchers

A checkable view of who shaped a rule.

Planned pricing

One report, written once, read by many.

One report costs less than an hour of outside counsel. We produce each report once and sell the same report to every reader, so the price stays low. These are planned launch prices. We are not taking payment yet.

Product	Price	What you receive
Regulatory Intelligence Report	$99 per report	One full report on one docket milestone.
Regulatory Monitoring	$495 per month	A weekly alert digest across the dockets you follow, with a short bottom line for each.
Docket Analysis	$1,450 per month	A full report at each milestone of a docket, from mid comment period to final rule, plus alerts.
White label	$190 per copy	The same report under your consulting firm's brand.
Custom research	from $6,800	One full report on a question you define, with a briefing call.

Why ComtIQ

Tracking tools tell you a rule exists. We read what people said about it.

Independent

We serve any side of a rulemaking. Advocacy projects that analyze one docket are built to defend one position.

Many dockets, continuously

Monitoring follows a docket from proposal to final rule, across agencies and state systems.

Reads the agency's answer

We match each significant argument to the final rule preamble and the Response to Comments.

Human review

An analyst verifies every key finding, and each one links back to the record, ready for legal and due diligence use.

Team

Fifteen years of reading regulatory data.

ComtIQ grew out of the Rulemaking Observatory, an open-source instrument that has collected more than 50,000 public comments across five federal dockets.

Co-founder · data and analysis

John Panitz

Risk analyst and a pioneer of data research since 2006. He finished a master's on data at 23. Leads the pipeline, the classification and the numbers.

Co-founder · legal and product

Vanessa Panitz

Seventeen years of problem solving as a federal public defender. LL.M. candidate at UW-Madison Law School. Author of the Rulemaking Observatory. She does the coding and researches regulatory data and administrative decision-making. At ComtIQ she leads the report methodology, the matching of comments to agency responses, and client delivery.

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