Dartmouth Advisory Partners

DAP Bellwether

A free regulatory change feed for financial regulators in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and the European Union, delivered as an MCP connector. No account, no key, no seat licence.

What it is

Bellwether collects what financial regulators publish, normalises it into one record shape, and serves it to any MCP client as a set of read-only tools. It holds prior state, so it can tell you that a document was amended after publication and what the earlier text said. That is the difference between detecting change and displaying a list.

It is built for the people who have to keep track: compliance and legal teams, risk and policy functions, analysts covering regulated sectors, and anyone who would otherwise be checking 10 regulator pages by hand.

Coverage begins from when the service first collected each source. It is not a complete historical archive, and the tools say so rather than letting an absence of results look like an absence of regulation.

Add it to Claude

Connector URL

https://dap-bellwether.dap-solutions.workers.dev/mcp

  1. In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors.
  2. Click the plus button next to Connectors and choose add custom connector.
  3. Give it a name, paste the URL above, and click Add.
  4. In a chat, click the plus button, hover Connectors, and toggle it on.

There is nothing to authenticate and nothing to configure. Adding a connector does not switch it on by itself, so the last step matters. Free plan users are limited to one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it for the organization first.

Tools

search_regulatory_changesWhat a regulator has published on a topic, or in a window
recent_regulatory_changesWhat is new across all regulators
get_regulatory_changeA full record, plus every revision observed since first collection
list_coverageWhat is monitored, and how fresh each source is

All four are read-only. There is no write surface.

Coverage

10 feeds across 4 jurisdictions. This list is generated from the live source registry, so it is what the connector actually collects rather than what it once intended to.

Canada

  • OSFI Site-wide publications
  • OSC News and notices

European Union

  • ESMA News and press releases
  • EBA News and press

United Kingdom

  • FCA News and publications

United States

  • SEC Press releases
  • SEC Proposed rules, via the Federal Register
  • SEC Final rules, via the Federal Register
  • FINRA Regulatory notices
  • CFTC Press releases

Not monitored: CIRO (Canada), TPR (United Kingdom), EIOPA (European Union). These are listed rather than quietly omitted, because an absence of results is only meaningful if you know what is being watched.

How this was built

Bellwether went from a question to a deployed public service in under forty minutes, built by one person who does not write code, working with Claude.

It runs on Cloudflare Workers with a D1 database and a cron trigger every six hours. The ingest normalises 10 feeds into one record shape and hashes each record, so an amendment is detected rather than quietly overwritten. The MCP layer is written against the streamable HTTP transport. There is a test suite, a privacy statement, a custom domain, and an entry in the official MCP Registry under a DNS verified namespace. Hosting costs nothing at this volume.

The source is public under the MIT licence. Read it, fork it, run your own.

The point is not that the tool is clever. It is that the cost of building a working, governed, production system has collapsed, and most of what institutions license today was priced before that happened.

Working with us

Dartmouth Advisory Partners is software in a service, not software as a service. We do not hand you a licence and wish you luck. You name the outcome. We build the system that produces it, in your environment, and you own what we build.

We work with compliance, risk and investment functions at asset owners, asset managers, OCIOs, pensions, insurers and family offices. Work that is quoted in quarters elsewhere gets delivered here in weeks, and often in days. This page is the evidence, not the exception.

If something here made you think of a problem in your own shop, that is the conversation.

bsibeth@dap.solutions

Privacy

The connector collects no personal data. This page counts visits without cookies or identifiers.

What is stored
Only regulatory publications retrieved from public regulator websites: title, link, summary, publication date and revision history. No user data of any kind is written to the database.
What is received
Tool calls arrive as search parameters, for example a keyword or jurisdiction. These are used to answer the request and are not stored, logged to durable storage, or associated with any identity.
Accounts
There are none. The service has no authentication, so it holds no credentials, email addresses or identifiers.
Analytics
This page uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, a cookieless measurement service. It records the page viewed, the referring link, browser and operating system, approximate country and page load timings. It sets no cookies and writes nothing to your device. Visitor IP addresses are used to derive country and are not stored by the service. The connector endpoint at /mcp does not load the beacon, so tool calls carry no analytics of any kind.
Third party sharing
Regulatory data is not sold, shared or transferred. This page loads no third party fonts, no advertising and no cross site trackers. The only third party request it makes is the analytics beacon described above.
Retention
Regulatory records and their revision history are retained indefinitely, because the historical record is the point of the service. Request parameters are not retained.
Infrastructure
Hosted on Cloudflare Workers and D1, with Cloudflare Web Analytics on this page. Cloudflare processes requests as an infrastructure provider and as an analytics processor under its own terms.
Contact
bsibeth@dap.solutions