Gnowit Inc

Frequently Asked Questions

Automated Legislative Monitoring uses artificial intelligence to track legislative and regulatory activity across federal, provincial, and municipal sources. Gnowit’s platform scans bills, debates, Canada Gazette notices, and consultations in real time, turning data into actionable alerts and executive briefs. This automation saves hours of manual research and ensures your team never misses important updates.

Legislative Monitoring automatically captures and categorizes bills, regulations, consultations, and policy updates from across Canada. It provides near real-time alerts, full-text search, and user-friendly dashboards, allowing users to track issues by ministry, jurisdiction, or stakeholder. The tool eliminates repetitive manual searches and delivers consolidated, accurate intelligence for decision-makers.

Parliamentary Live provides same-day \Hansard transcripts, witness summaries, and motion detection for committee hearings and debates. GR professionals can skip hours of video playback and jump directly to relevant discussions. This helps identify early signals, stakeholder positions, and emerging policy shifts as they unfold in Parliament or provincial legislatures.

The Canada Gazette is the Government of Canada’s official publication for proposed and finalized regulations. It’s divided into Part I (proposed rules) and Part II (finalized laws). Monitoring the Gazette allows compliance and risk teams to stay ahead of regulatory changes. Gnowit automates Gazette tracking, linking each notice to relevant bills or consultations for faster implementation planning.

Curation Edge is Gnowit’s human analyst-driven reporting add-on service that transforms legislative activity into C-suite-ready briefs. It combines automation with human curation—filtering, summarizing, and branding weekly updates. Each brief highlights what changed, why it matters, and what to do next, saving teams hours while keeping leadership informed and aligned.

Gnowit aggregates data from federal, provincial, and territorial government portals, as well as municipal monitoring in Canada. This includes Parliament, provincial legislatures, ministries, regulators, Canada Gazette, consultations, and public notices. Data is cleaned, de-duplicated, and indexed for searchable, near real-time access inside the platform.

Each alert passes through advanced AI filters that apply entity recognition, contextual analysis, and deduplication. Users can refine results using keywords, jurisdictions, or ministries. This means fewer irrelevant notifications and higher-precision intelligence—keeping your inbox clean and your workflow efficient and quick.

Manual monitoring is slow and error-prone. Automation ensures coverage, speed, and scalability. With Gnowit’s Automated Legislative and Parliamentary Monitoring, organizations save time, prevent missed updates, and can make faster compliance or advocacy decisions. It also supports Regulatory Change Tracking for audit-ready documentation and performance reporting.

Gnowit serves sectors where regulation, public policy, and compliance change rapidly—such as financial services, telecommunications, energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and public affairs. It’s equally valuable for law firms, trade associations, and non-profits that need real-time insight into legislation affecting their operations or advocacy work.

You can explore all product features on www.gnowit.com, including Legislative Monitoring, Parliamentary Live, and Curation Edge. To see how the platform fits your organization, visit the Pricing page or Book a Demo to speak directly with a solutions specialist.

Consider the following factors:

  • Coverage: Does it track all the jurisdictions and legislative bodies you need?
  • Accuracy & Timeliness: How reliable and up-to-date is its data?
  • Features: Does it offer the specific tools (alerts, reporting, collaboration) you require?
  • Ease of Use: Is the interface intuitive and user-friendly?
  • Support: What kind of customer support is available?
  • Integration: Can it integrate with your existing systems?
  • Cost: Does it fit within your budget, considering its value and features?
  • Scalability: Can it grow with your needs as your legislative monitoring requirements evolve?

Absolutely. Customization is a core advantage. Gnowit Users can typically:

  • Set up specific search terms and alerts.
  • Create reports.
  • Define user roles and permissions.
  • Tailor notification preferences.

By providing timely alerts on new bills, proposed regulations, and changes to existing laws, the Gnowit software allows compliance officers and legal teams to identify relevant regulatory changes early.

Typical features include:

  • Real-time Tracking: Updates on bill status, amendments, and votes.
  • Customizable Alerts: Notifications for specific keywords, bills, or legislative actions.
  • Comprehensive Databases: Access to full text of bills, resolutions, and regulations.
  • Reporting & Analytics Option – Curation Edge: Add-on analyst service to generate reports and analyze legislative trends.
  • Collaboration Feature: Features for teams to share insights.
  • Historical Data: Access to past legislative information.

Official bill text, status updates, committee hearings, amendments, votes, regulatory notices, and relevant news from government portals and official feeds.

The Gnowit software typically aggregates data from official government sources (e.g., congressional websites, state legislative portals, regulatory agencies). Users can set up personalized alerts and searches based on keywords, bill numbers, jurisdictions, or specific legislative bodies. The system then automatically scans for relevant updates and notifies the user, providing a centralized platform to manage and analyze the information.

Yes, Gnowit legislative monitoring software solutions offer tracking capabilities across multiple government levels, including federal, state legislatures, and often local municipalities. 

While the Gnowit Parliamentary Monitoring software platform is designed to be user-friendly, training may be recommended to help users maximize the tool’s features and functionalities. We offer tutorials, resources, or customer support to assist users in getting started.  

A wide range of organizations utilize this software, including:

  • Government Relations Teams: To advocate for their interests.
  • Lobbyists: To track bills relevant to their clients.
  • Legal Departments & Compliance Officers: To ensure adherence to current and upcoming laws.
  • Trade Associations: To inform members about industry-specific legislation.
  • Non-profits & Advocacy Groups: To monitor policies related to their causes.
  • Corporations: To understand potential business impacts and risks.

Gnowit AI Bill Tracking Software is a digital tool that utilizes artificial intelligence to automate the process of monitoring bills.

Yes, Gnowit AI Bill Tracking Software employs advanced encryption and security measures to protect your financial data, ensuring that your information remains confidential and secure from unauthorized access.

By using Gnowit AI Bill Tracking Software, your organization can streamline the monitoring of legislative developments, save time on manual tracking, and gain AI-generated summaries.

The vAnalyst supports one primary user, and four alias users by default. All users can view, create, and modify all monitoring projects, though the alerts are configurable.

Most users elect to receive the results via email alerts. For the most extensive coverage, and to access advanced filters and reporting options, login to your Gnowit account and view your results visually through our dashboard. We also offer APIs, shareable dashboards, and additional human analyst curation services that deliver daily reports based on your priorities and instructions on actionability.

We offer hallucination-free, full text filtering of data via advanced Boolean filters, and other meta-data options that are very easy to use. Even better, we’ll configure all your projects for you, and if you even need help, we’ll gladly reconfigure them as many times as you like!

Google Alerts and vAnalyst provide information from two unique sets of sources.

Google Alerts discovers new web pages that appear containing your keywords; these results may include news articles, forums, job postings, online classifieds, and more. 

Results gathered through vAnalyst are drawn from our list of 2.5M curated Canadian Government and global news sources. These sources are extremely relevant for government relations and advocacy professionals, and don’t suffer from the noisy data that wastes your time on Google Alerts. With over 2.5 million articles processed every week, the vAnalyst results cover the full spectrum of online news, so you never miss the article you need.

Rather than clipping the first 1.5 lines for an article preview, Gnowit’s natural language processing engine captures the entire meaning of the article to make skimming your results faster and simpler.

Gnowit’s patented Sentiment Analysis feature uses Natural Language Processing to provide automated analysis of results, displaying whether the author viewed the article subject in a positive, negative, or neutral light. Our database processes 10 million unique documents per week, constantly learning from the results to provide the most accurate text analysis possible.

If you need something that we don’t have, just contact us, and we are happy to create an Enterprise solution tailored to fit your exact needs! With Gnowit, there are no limits.

Yes! Results are easy to share with vAnalyst: you can share your friends and social media, generate reports in PDF format for business, or choose to email your results directly from the dashboard to friends and colleagues.

A vAnalyst project is a search set of keywords related to your topic of interest which you put in, following a simple search or advanced search (for example Boolean search). Upon having those search keywords relevant to your interest, the data is compiled and turned into the information you are looking for.

As vAnalyst is user-friendly, you can create a new project following a simple set of instructions or you can get our support from an expert team, and they would set the project for you. Both ways, win the game!

Yes! If you run out of project slots, just contact us at sales@gnowit.com with your needs, and we will send you a quote.

Yes, we monitor almost 2.5 million sources from around the globe (with around 250K of them focused on Canadian parliamentary, regulatory, legislative and policy sources; if we still don’t cover what you need, send us a request and we can add it to our platform for you.

Our preferred payment option is via direct EFT of cheque, though we also support processing credit cards through Stripe.