How it works
Most mid-sized UK practices do not have a dedicated compliance researcher. Partners and seniors still need to know when HMRC guidance moves, Companies House processes change, or a mid-week item cannot wait until Monday. Practice Signal is a retainer service built for exactly that.
The weekly cycle
Every brief is built from that week’s verified changes, and every item links back to the official page.
We monitor public UK sources on our watchlist, principally HMRC and Companies House, expanding as further feeds are verified.
We filter for practice relevance and draft a plain-English brief. Every item is labelled Action, Watch or Ignore, with a link to the primary source.
A person spot-checks material flags before the brief is sent.
The brief arrives on Monday morning by email, ready to forward to staff.
On Standard and Full, when a material Action item cannot wait until Monday, we send a short alert.
You keep every brief for staff training and internal reference.
Anatomy of a brief
Predictable layout means partners know where to look, and staff can act on it without a covering note.
| Section | What it contains |
|---|---|
| At a glance | Counts of actions, watch items and ignores, plus the most urgent item. |
| Action | What changed, who it affects, what to do, by when, and the source. |
| Watch | What changed, who it affects, and what would turn it into an Action. |
| Ignore | One line and why, with the source. |
| Key dates | The next relevant windows, drawn from primary sources. |
| Disclaimer | General information only; check the source and apply your own judgement. |
The detail
Each brief summarises publicly available material from official sources, for example GOV.UK, HMRC, Companies House, the FCA, legislation.gov.uk and professional-body regulatory pages. Our core watchlist is HMRC and Companies House; other regulators are added as their feeds are verified. We say so when an area is pending verification.
Every brief is filtered to your practice. Lean uses one practice profile (a single client-mix filter, for example SMEs, landlords, contractors or payroll-heavy). Standard adds tighter filtering to the service lines you name. Full adds multi-segment tagging for up to three practice segments. Your two free briefs are tailored to your client mix.
Drafting is assisted; material items are spot-checked by a person before they go out. We never present model output as advice.
You forward the brief to staff without rewriting it. That is the test we ask you to apply during a pilot.
Is it a fit?
Questions
No. It is general information about public regulatory developments. Always check the primary source and apply your own professional judgement. See our important notice.
UK accountancy practices of roughly 5–40 staff that need a shared weekly view without hiring a full-time compliance researcher.
Public sources on our watchlist: principally HMRC and Companies House guidance and updates, with additional regulators and legislation feeds as they are verified. We do not claim complete coverage of every UK regulatory change.
We filter for practice relevance, structure every item as Action, Watch or Ignore, and aim for a brief your partners can forward without rewriting. We are not a substitute for full research products.
Four weeks of the Standard plan (the Monday brief, mid-week alerts for material Action items, and tighter filtering to named service lines) at £500 for the four weeks. Success looks like this: you forward the brief to staff without rewriting it.
Yes. Every plan is filtered to your practice. Lean uses one practice profile (a single client-mix filter); Standard adds tighter filtering to named service lines; Full adds multi-segment tagging for up to three practice segments. Your two free briefs are tailored to your client mix too. Tell us your main client mix (for example SMEs, landlords, contractors, payroll-heavy) when you start.
Drafting is assisted; material items are spot-checked by a person. We never present model output as advice.
No.
Two free briefs
Tell us your practice size and main client mix (for example SMEs, landlords, contractors, payroll-heavy). We will send two free Monday briefs tailored to it, so you can judge the format before committing to anything.
