Alerts and monitoring
Not available in the beta. This page describes the method.
The index moves every day. A watchlist is how a person, a company or a body is followed as new papers and appointments arrive.
We only index public bodies. A supplier, developer, or care-home Ltd appears when a public file or a published identifier attaches it. We do not run a private-company directory.
MethodologyHow records attachWorked example: Birmingham CouncilFAQ
How it works
A user names what to watch: a person in the officer graph, a company number, a tracked public body, a proprietor, an island entity. Institrace stores that watch against the same identifiers the rest of the platform already uses. When the collectors run, when an officer file updates, when a new minute is indexed, when a title match appears, the watch is tested. If the new record touches the watched identity, a notification is raised.
The notification is a pointer, not a narrative. It carries the document, the appointment, or the title, and the reason it matched. It does not interpret. Frequency and channel are a setting. The important design choice is the scope. A Google Alert watches the open web. An official mailing list watches one site. An Institrace watch sits on the joined graph, so a new Guernsey paper, a new Companies House appointment and a new English title can all hit the same list.
What it does
It turns the index from a place you visit into a place that reports. Compliance teams, researchers and journalists do not want another inbox of commentary. They want to know when the public record around a name has changed. No UK service offers that across committee papers, officers, land and British overseas-territory records as one watch. That is why the layer exists, and why it is not an add-on RSS feed from a single portal.