Track 2 CFR 200, NIH, NSF and UKRI policy changes without reading five sites every morning.

Two kinds of sources, combined. First, CASRAI’s own published content library — news covering four practice domains: research security, compliance & regulatory, funding & finance, and grants management. Second, items published on U.S. Federal Register, Grants.gov, Regulations.gov (open comment dockets), NSF News and UKRI, which a scheduled job fetches from those sources once a day. The daily digest merges both and your dashboard lists the same items; Ask CASRAI retrieves the specific passages behind every answer, from either kind of source, and cites them so you can check the source yourself.

Yes, through the Federal Register. Amendments to the grants uniform guidance at 2 CFR 200 are published by the Office of Management and Budget, and OMB is one of the agencies our Federal Register sources cover — alongside NIH, NSF, HHS, OSTP, the Department of Education and NIST. Documents from the wider agency slice are filtered to research and grants topics before they reach you: “uniform guidance”, “cost principle”, “single audit” and “indirect cost” are among the terms that let a notice through. NSF also has its own news source in the list. What is not covered: the NIH Guide for Grants & Contracts, which is not one of the five sources — NIH reaches you through its Federal Register documents rather than through the Guide.

Two screens, both on casrai.org. /account/regulatory-radar is the dashboard of what changed: the same items on screen, filterable by source, each one linked out to the original notice, alongside a live count of how much material Ask CASRAI can currently retrieve from and your billing and digest preferences. /ask/chat is the assistant, at 150 questions a day for subscribers. The daily email is a copy of what is on the dashboard, not the product. A digest-only subscription with no account still works — you just get the email and none of the screens.

Yes, on the same subscription. Create an API key at /account/api-keys (up to five per account) and use it two ways: call the REST endpoint directly with “Authorization: Bearer casrai_pk_…”, or point any MCP client — Claude Desktop, Cursor, an agent framework — at the CASRAI MCP server and its casrai_ask tool. Setup and examples are at /implement/mcp. A key is an identity, not a separate product: it carries the same 150-answers-a-day allowance as the website, counts against the same total, and stops working if the subscription stops. The dictionary and CRediT lookup tools on the same MCP server are free and need no key.

You can ask 2 questions a day free, signed out, with no account and no card — the same assistant and the same citations a subscriber gets. Ask one in the “Try it first” section of this page, or go straight to the assistant: Ask a question now → That is the assistant, not the subscription: Regulatory Radar itself has no free trial, and the daily digest, the dashboard and API access start when you subscribe. What you can check without asking anything is here on the page too: a real digest, a real dashboard and a real cited answer, each an artefact rather than a mockup. Everything CASRAI publishes also stays free to read, with no account and no card, and that is not changing. The risk reversal on the subscription is the billing rather than a trial — $29/month, month to month, cancelled by you in the billing portal at any time, with access running to the end of the month you paid for.

Coverage is the five named external sources — U.S. Federal Register, Grants.gov, Regulations.gov (open comment dockets), NSF News and UKRI — plus CASRAI’s own published content. It is not a real-time feed of every agency, funder or jurisdiction worldwide: state and institutional policy, most non-US and non-UK funders, the NIH Guide for Grants & Contracts, and paywalled or unpublished guidance are all outside it. It is also a daily digest rather than an instant alert, so items surface in the next morning’s send rather than the moment they publish. If your compliance obligations depend on a source outside that set, Regulatory Radar supplements your monitoring rather than replacing it.

No. Regulatory Radar summarises and surfaces published regulatory and compliance content — it is not legal advice and is not a substitute for your institution’s legal counsel or compliance office. Always confirm with them before acting on anything specific to your institution.

No, and not on ours either. Ask CASRAI is a retrieval-augmented assistant, not a model trained or fine-tuned on anything. It is specialized in research administration by what it retrieves from: a vector index of CASRAI’s published content library plus the external regulatory sources, 72,264 passages as of 2026-09-03, with the live figure shown on your dashboard. Every question pulls the relevant passages out of that index, and the answer is grounded in — and cites — those specific passages rather than drawing on memorised training data. Nothing you ask is used to train a model.

$29.00 in USD when you complete payment on Stripe’s checkout page, then $29.00 on the same date each month until you cancel — $348 over a year at that rate. Pressing Subscribe here takes you to checkout.stripe.com, where you enter the card; your card details are never entered on casrai.org. No setup fee, no annual option, no prepay discount and no trial period on the subscription. Nothing is charged if you leave Stripe’s page without paying. No sales tax or VAT is added, and we cannot record an institutional tax ID at checkout.

Month to month in USD, $29.00 a charge, $348 over a year at this rate. No minimum term, no auto-escalation, no cancellation fee — you cancel it yourself in the billing portal and access runs to the end of the month you paid for. Every payment produces an itemised invoice, emailed to you, with the name and billing address you enter at checkout on it. No sales tax or VAT is added and we cannot record an institutional tax ID. A card issued outside the US will apply its own exchange rate, so the reimbursed figure will not be exactly $29. There are no partial refunds. We do not run purchase orders or institutional invoicing — if you need either, email [email protected] before you pay rather than after. Seats for a whole office are the one exception and are sold per seat at $25/seat/month, described on the institutions page.

Yes. Regulatory Radar is a monthly subscription with no annual contract. Manage or cancel any time from your account page — “Manage subscription” opens Stripe’s secure billing portal, where cancellation takes a few clicks.

You can subscribe yourself. It is a card payment at $29/month, made on Stripe’s own checkout page — there is no institutional purchase order or procurement process involved on our end. If colleagues need it too there is a per-seat team subscription at $25/seat/month for 3–50 seats, described on the institutions page, but nobody needs it in order to buy for themselves. Whether your own institution allows individual professional-subscription expenses is a question for your usual expense process, not something this page can answer for you.

The daily quota doesn’t roll over — it simply resets each day, so you always start fresh rather than needing to ration questions across the week.

You land on a confirmation page on casrai.org that verifies the payment with Stripe and waits for the subscription to activate — normally a second or two. An itemised invoice is emailed to you. If you were signed in when you paid, the dashboard is already yours. If you were not, sign in afterwards with the address you paid with and it links then — that match is exact, so use that address and not an alias.

They’re separate, unrelated products. The Verified Contributor Directory is CASRAI’s free directory; Regulatory Radar is a separate paid subscription. Joining one does not enrol you in the other, and you can subscribe to Regulatory Radar whether or not you’re listed in the directory.