Up-to-date Regulations inside Claude and ChatGPT
Are you managing spreadsheets of regulations, scouring state websites for laws, and googling compliance questions? OpenRegs puts current statutes and regulations for all 50 states and federal right inside Claude and ChatGPT, with a research log and citations you can verify.
Building a product or integrating our data? That's the OpenLaws API.
Trusted Regulatory Answers,
Right Where You Work
OpenRegs plugs current regulations into the AI assistants your team already uses, so the answers you get are grounded in primary law as it reads today, not a stale search result or a tool priced for litigation.
Inside Claude and ChatGPT
In Claude, OpenRegs is a regulatory research plugin. In ChatGPT, it connects as an MCP server with our bundled regulatory research SKILL.md. Either way, your team stays in the assistant they already work in.
The Law Itself, Not a Memo
OpenRegs returns the actual, current statute and regulation text and relevant annotations, plus a linkable webpage for every citation. Link straight to the law and build reports anyone can open and verify, with no subscription in the way. Westlaw, by contrast, returns a synthesized memo, with citations that only open behind a Westlaw login.
Built for Compliance, Not Litigation
OpenRegs is made for cross-jurisdiction compliance work: run a 50-state survey in one request, and get a side-by-side answer. It is priced for compliance professionals, not the per-seat or per-query legal research tools sold to Big Law.
Retire the 50-State Spreadsheet
Keeping every state's rules current is a ton of work, and your spreadsheet is out of date the moment you save it. An outside firm costs a fortune and still hands you a snapshot. Ask OpenRegs in Claude or ChatGPT, and get a current answer every time, with citations you can check.
As of today (July 13, 2026), 20 states have a comprehensive consumer data privacy law in effect. Each flagship statute below resolves in OpenLaws as current, in-force law:
- California California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (as amended by CPRA) Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.160 (OpenLaws)
- Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act Va. Code Ann. § 59.1-578 (OpenLaws)
- Colorado Colorado Privacy Act Colo. Rev. Stat. § 6-1-1306 (OpenLaws)
- Connecticut Data Privacy and Security Act Conn. Gen. Stat. § 42-518 (OpenLaws)
- Utah Utah Consumer Privacy Act Utah Code Ann. § 13-61-101 (OpenLaws)
+ 13 more states
Confidence: HIGH on the 20-state list and that each resolves to a real, in-force statute (each verified by direct citation lookup). MEDIUM on strict completeness and on the specific historical effective dates not returned by the corpus.
- Confirmed scope: U.S. states with a comprehensive consumer data privacy statute currently in force, as of July 13, 2026.
- Searched all 20 states across statutes and regulations for "consumer data privacy protection act," paging through both pages of states.
- Confirmed flagship statutes surfaced for 17 states directly, including California (CCPA), Virginia (CDPA), Colorado (CPA), Connecticut, Texas, Oregon, Florida, Montana, Delaware, Iowa, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Tennessee, Minnesota, Maryland, and Kentucky.
- Noted that Utah, Indiana, and Rhode Island did not surface on the broad query; their top hits were tangential or, for Utah, its separate Government Data Privacy Act.
- Searched Utah, Indiana, and Rhode Island statutes directly, then looked up Utah Consumer Privacy Act, Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act, and Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act by citation to confirm each resolves in force.
- Surfaced corpus-confirmed effective dates for Maryland (Oct 1, 2025) and Kentucky, Indiana, Rhode Island (Jan 1, 2026); flagged that effective-date fields were not populated for the older statutes.
- Answered with the 20-state list, each grounded in a citation lookup with a provenance link.
Regulations Across Every U.S. Jurisdiction
Plus D.C. and Puerto Rico
Sections of law tracked and regularly updated
Nationwide regulatory coverage.
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Nationwide statute and code coverage.
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Install OpenRegs in Your Assistant
Connect once with your OpenRegs login, then research in the assistant your team already uses.
Add the OpenRegs plugin in Claude
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Apply for access and get your OpenRegs login.
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Sign in to authorize, then ask a regulatory question.
Add the OpenRegs MCP in ChatGPT
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Apply for access and get your OpenRegs login.
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Authorize with your login, then ask a regulatory question.
Get Early Access, or Validate for Free
Join the Design Partnership for full access to our compliance research tools, or try the free Citation Validator to see how OpenRegs works in your assistant.
OpenRegs MCP
Design Partnership
Get on OpenRegs now, and help shape it. Six months of hands-on access in exchange for your feedback and collaboration.
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Full access to the OpenRegs MCP server and Claude plugin
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Cross-jurisdiction regulatory research across 50 states, D.C., and federal
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Research logs and validated citations for your audit trail
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Monthly working sessions with our product team
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A direct hand in the OpenRegs SaaS roadmap
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Onboarding to get you set up
Citation Validator MCP
Check whether a legal citation is real and current, right inside Claude or ChatGPT. Free with a quick sign-in.
For unlimited checks, the full regulatory text in Claude, and citable, paywall-free links, join the Design Partnership above.
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The 50-State Survey, Priced Every Way
How OpenRegs compares to the usual ways a compliance team answers a 50-state question.
| Approach | Typical cost | Stays current? | Get the regulatory text? | Verifiable, no paywall? |
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| OpenRegs MCP | $1,200 / 6 months (60% off currently) | Always current, on demand | Yes, the full text | Yes, public citable pages |
| Westlaw or Lexis (with MCP) | $399–$494 / month | Current | Summaries and paywalled links | No, behind their paywall |
| Spreadsheets and Google | Free minus your sanity | Stale the moment you save | Only what you paste in | You verify every link yourself |
| Legislative and regulatory tracking (State Net, FiscalNote) | Five figures / year | Current tracking | Summaries and alerts | No, subscription only |
| Law firm 50-state survey (one-time, single topic) | $25,000–$75,000 one-time, one topic | A snapshot in time | Quoted in a memo | Only the memo itself |
Comparison figures are approximate and for illustration; subscription and survey pricing varies by vendor, seats, and scope.
Legislation and State Registers, This Fall
This fall, OpenLaws is adding proposed rules from state registers and pending legislation, starting with federal and five states. It lands in OpenRegs so your team can see regulatory changes before they take effect.
Frequently Asked Questions
OpenRegs brings current statutes and regulations into the AI assistants your compliance team already uses. In Claude, it is a regulatory research plugin; in ChatGPT, it connects as an MCP server with bundled skills. It is built for compliance teams; if you are a developer integrating legal data into a product, that is the OpenLaws API.
Free searches and spreadsheets do not tell you whether a rule is current, and they do not scale across 50 states. OpenRegs gives you current, cited answers in the tools you already use, plus a research log you can defend. You spend less time verifying results and less time worrying that you are relying on a rule that has since changed.
Yes. The free Citation Validator MCP checks whether a citation is real and current, right in Claude or ChatGPT. It takes a quick sign-in and is rate-limited to keep it fair. For unlimited checks, the full regulatory text, and citable, paywall-free links, join the Design Partnership.
Apply for access and we will set you up with a login. You use it to connect OpenRegs to Claude or ChatGPT through a secure sign-in, and your team can start researching right away. No data pipeline to build and nothing to host.
A general model answers from training data and can cite regulations that were amended or never existed. OpenRegs grounds every answer in current primary law, records a research log of how it got there, and validates each citation against the retrieved text. When it cannot verify something, it says so instead of guessing.
The actual law. OpenRegs returns the statute and regulation text and a public webpage for every citation, so you can link to primary law and build reports an auditor or regulator can open and verify without a subscription. Westlaw's CoCounsel, by contrast, returns a synthesized memo whose citations sit behind a Westlaw paywall.
$1,200 for six months of full access to the OpenRegs MCP server and Claude plugin, 60% off the standard $3,000, plus monthly working sessions with our product team, onboarding to get you set up, and a direct hand in the roadmap. In return, we ask for your feedback as we build.
No. OpenRegs surfaces the law with citations so you can do your own analysis; it does not tell you what to do. It states what a statute or regulation provides and points you to the source.
OpenRegs is built on OpenLaws data, harvested directly from authoritative government sources across 53 jurisdictions. Federal law is updated weekly and major states monthly, with effective dates and repeal status tracked so you are working from the version in force.
Give Your Compliance Team an Assistant It Can Defend
Early access is open now through the Design Partnership.