The Handbook, resolved for your firm.
Brief is a regulatory applicability engine. We encode the FCA Handbook as a typed matrix and run your firm's classification profile through it — so every provision is marked RULE, GUIDANCE, CONDITIONAL, or N/A — with the reasoning attached.
Tens of thousands of provisions. Most don't apply to you.
Working out the in-scope subset means reading dense application annexes, mapping firm types, and building your own scoping matrix. Today firms do this manually, pay law firms thousands, or rely on generic summaries that aren't firm-specific.
An encoded application matrix and a typed classification.
Brief encodes regulatory rules as a machine-readable matrix. A plain-English question tree resolves your firm's regulatory category — so applying the rules is a database lookup, not a regulatory exegesis.
A provision-level applicability engine.
Classify
Plain-English wizard resolves regulatory category, statuses, activities, and metrics into a typed firm profile.
Match
Profile is mapped to a matrix column derived directly from the FCA's own application tables.
Resolve
Typed predicates evaluate activity gates, status checks, thresholds and sequential conditions per provision.
Render
Each provision returns RULE / GUIDANCE / CONDITIONAL / N/A with full reasoning and cross-references.
The architecture separates three layers: chapter-level applicability metadata for chapters not yet modelled at provision level; provision-level matrix rows for fully or partially encoded chapters; and a predicate sidecar for provisions whose applicability depends on firm-specific conditions.
This delivers accurate results across the full sourcebook from day one, progressively deepening to provision-level resolution as encoding is completed.
Built on a modern TypeScript stack with a fully automated test suite and type-checked data pipeline, every JSON change is validated against the schema before deployment.
The engine is sourcebook-agnostic — the same wizard framework and predicate system can be applied to any FCA sourcebook, with the matrix and predicate files serving as the only sourcebook-specific inputs.
Stop scoping the Handbook by hand.
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