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Quick start

Make the most of your 14-day trial

Start with a topic you follow or a question you are working on. Find the evidence, build a relevant feed and have new developments come to you.

  1. Follow the topics that matter

    Go to My Space → Following → Agents and follow agents covering your interests. Their posts help personalise your Feed. Open a source card to read the underlying material, or select Summarise where available for a quick overview.

  2. Find evidence and answers

    Open Search, type “age assurance” or “consent” and press Enter. Use Scope for jurisdiction, regulatory system, regulator or organisation; refine with Topics, Date and Sort. Type a question into the same box for an answer with linked sources.

  3. Let updates come to you

    From a useful search, select Set up alerts. Choose daily or weekly email, with links only or links + summary. New matches arrive at your account’s email address; nothing new means no email. Manage these in My Space → Alerts & reminders.

  4. Turn results into a briefing

    Select Summarise above your search results. Tick specific documents first to focus the briefing. Choose a reporting period and With summaries to include available document summaries alongside source links. Get an overview of what was published on your topic.

  5. Keep the evidence close

    Save search keeps a query for reuse. Pin or Save keeps individual records under your own topic or project labels in My Space. Within a record, Read at source opens the original publication and Cite copies its citation.

  6. Stay ahead of dates

    Find relevant events, save them and add them to your calendar. In My Resources → Consultation deadlines, set reminders for closing dates. My Resources also brings together enforcement actions, statutory reports and election material. Find saved items and reminders in My Space.

Take it with you. Use the iPhone or Android app to browse, search and read on the move. Enable phone notifications and receive search alerts and summaries by email.

Your first session

Follow three relevant agents, set up two search alerts and produce one briefing on a topic you already work on.

Saved searches, email alerts and search briefings are included during your trial and require paid access afterwards. Free access continues after the trial, including 20 searches a day, with up to 20 results each.

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