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Franklin said an ounce of prevention was worth a pound of cure. In the regulatory world the more useful currency is foresight — and foresight is rarely genius. It's attention. The firms blindsided by an enforcement referral are almost never blindsided by something unknowable; they're undone by a signal that was there all along — in a speech, a sweep, a new framework, a pattern in the news nobody stitched together in time. At least quarterly, we tell you what the SEC is about to care about — about your firm, specifically — before the SEC does. In between, we're on call for the market shift, the new technology, the headline that suddenly matters. One partner who holds the whole calendar year in view.

Every firm has a blind spot in the exact shape of its competitors — what they're being asked, where they're being examined, which framework they adopted last quarter that just became the de facto standard. Individually, these are gossip. Stitched together across a peer set, they're a forecast. We watch the firms that look like you, so that when the regulator's attention moves, you see the shadow before the object — and you've already adjusted while your competitors are still drafting their response. Foresight, it turns out, is mostly other people's hindsight, collected early.