The diff your paralegal stopped doing in 2019 — automated, on your desk Monday.
DriftPatrol watches the URLs that matter — vendor SLAs, competitor contracts, regulator pages, carrier policy forms — and emails your team a plain-English diff every Monday. Zero paralegal hours. Defensible timestamped audit trail on every change.
The problem01
The hourly math stopped working, so nobody's watching anymore.
Somebody on your team used to print the competitor's terms every quarter and diff them by hand. Then their time got expensive, the number of URLs that matter went up, and "watching stuff" fell off the work list. Now a vendor rewrites an SLA, a regulator moves a threshold, a carrier form drops a defense provision — and nobody catches it until a client or opposing counsel cites it.
"We only noticed after opposing counsel cited the new clause in a motion."
Marketing-built tools (Visualping, Distill) flag every pixel. You'd drown in noise. What you want is a summary in your professional dialect, once a week, from an AI that reads the whole page — plus a timestamped PDF you can hand to a partner or an auditor.
What you'd receive02
Three Monday briefs. Three different desks. One inbox each.
Target (LOI stage) — Acme Holdings /terms-of-service + §14: binding arbitration with 30-day opt-out added 02/28. ↳ Impact: changes the class-action exposure profile you underwrote in diligence. Re-run liability model.
Regulator — SEC /rules/final-rule-s7-04-23 (cyber disclosure) + Enforcement guidance: 4-day disclosure window clarified to "from the day materiality is determined," not from incident discovery.
Regulator — IL DOI /bulletins/2026-04 + New surplus-lines tax form (IL-SL-7) required for non-admitted placements starting 2026-07-01. ↳ Impact: your ops needs the new form wired into the placement workflow before Q3.
Vendor — PayFlow /terms + New arbitration clause, Delaware venue, class waiver, 30-day opt-out from effective date (03/15). ↳ Impact: 22 days left to opt out. Send written notice if you want to preserve court remedies.
Regulator — FTC /business-guidance/blog/click-to-cancel-final-rule + Final rule effective date moved from 05/14 to 07/14 after litigation.
Competitor — (your top comp) /pricing + Enterprise tier dropped from "Contact sales" to published at $4,800/mo. ↳ Impact: sales will ask about this within 24 hours of the page being indexed. Get ahead of it.
Send us 25 URLs
Vendor SLAs, competitor contracts, regulator pages, carrier policy forms, pricing pages — whatever you wish someone had been watching. Add more URLs any time; we'll let you know when you pass 25.
We check daily
Every public URL, every day. We store the full rendered HTML + a timestamped PDF so you have a defensible record of exactly what changed and when. Founding 10 is public-URL only; auth-gated pages come after Year 1.
Monday digest + same-day keyword alerts
Plain-English diff from an AI that's read the whole page, with the raw diff attached so nothing is filtered from you. Same-day alert if one of your flagged keywords (arbitration, indemnity, rate, breach, exclusion) appears in any change. Batched — never second-by-second.
How your data is handled03
The answers counsel ask on the first call.
Public URLs only for Founding 10
We fetch the same pages your browser sees. No login, no credential handling, no poking at anything behind an authentication wall. Authenticated fetches are a Year-2 feature — too much liability to get wrong early.
No training on your watchlist
Your URL list, diffs, and briefs are never used to train any model. Full stop, written into the MSA.
Inherited SOC 2 from infrastructure
Built on Cloudflare Workers + D1 + SendGrid — all SOC 2 Type 2. Our own SOC 2 Type 1 is on the 2026 roadmap; happy to share the sub-processor SOC 2 reports under NDA today.
US-based infrastructure
Cloudflare Workers + D1 (US-East), SendGrid (US) for mail. No data leaves US regions.
Export + delete anytime
Full CSV + PDF export of your change history on demand. Cancel and everything — URL list, diffs, email history — is deleted within 30 days, receipts on request.
Founder replies personally
Every support email is answered by Josh until we hit 50 paying customers. No tier-1 queue, no AI chatbot hallway, no "we've received your ticket" form.
Founding 10 pricing04
$199/mo, month-to-month. Your price is locked forever as long as you stay subscribed.
- 25 public URLs monitored daily
- Weekly Monday digest in plain English + raw diff attached
- Same-day alert for your flagged keywords (arbitration, indemnity, limitation of liability, rate, breach, exclusion)
- Full change history export — CSV + timestamped PDF audit trail
- 30-day full refund if we miss a material change you caught manually
- Direct line to Josh for feature requests that shape the roadmap
Not for you if05
This is a small, opinionated tool. Skip it if:
- You want 500+ URLs monitored for SEO competitive intel — use a marketing tool.
- You need real-time, second-by-second alerts — we batch by design to kill noise.
- You need authenticated crawling of private carrier portals or partner consoles today — not during Founding 10.
- You need a signed BAA for PHI — healthcare compliance onboarding opens after we carry cyber + E&O at $1M/$2M minimum, expected H2 2026.
- You want a white-labeled, resold product — not this quarter.
- You want to pay with a PO on 90-day net — Stripe only, month-to-month.
Questions we get06
How fast can you go live after I pay?
Same day for the onboarding conversation, first brief the Monday after. Send the 25 URLs in your reply to the Stripe receipt; I confirm the list and watch starts that night.
What if I need more than 25 URLs?
Founding 10 is 25 URLs at $199/mo. Extras are $4/URL/mo capped at $299/mo total while you're in the Founding 10. You'll never pay more than the locked rate we agree on Day 1 as long as you stay subscribed.
Why only public URLs?
Most private carrier portals and vendor admin consoles prohibit third-party credential sharing in their TOS. Authenticated crawling done casually is how brokers lose appointments and companies lose their vendor accounts. We'll ship auth-gated watching in Year 2 with a real security review — not sooner.
How is this different from Visualping, Distill, or Wachete?
Those are pixel-diff tools built for marketers. They tell you a page changed. We read the whole page with an AI tuned on legal, insurance, and regulatory prose and tell you whether the change is material — then ship the raw diff and a timestamped PDF so you can audit our judgement and keep a clean paper trail.
Will you sign an NDA or DPA?
NDA: yes, same day, mutual. DPA: yes — our standard form covers GDPR + CCPA; send yours if you need edits and I redline the same week.
What happens if you get hit by a bus?
Fair question. Your KV/D1 data is on Cloudflare in your own export-ready format — I can send you a one-shot export script so you can self-export weekly. If the company goes away, every customer gets 90-day read-only access to their archive plus a full export before shutdown. This is written into the MSA.
What does year two cost?
For the Founding 10: whatever we agree on Day 1, locked for the life of your subscription. Standard price after Founding 10 closes is $299/mo — you don't pay that unless you cancel and come back. Export all your history and walk any time. Your data, not ours.
Why only 10 customers?
Because I'm one person and I want the first ten to shape the product. Support tickets, feature priorities, brief-style preferences — all driven by people who paid Day 1. If you'd rather wait for the polished version, the public list opens when seat 10 closes at $299/mo.
Who's building this07
Josh Frost. Two years hand-diffing vendor SLAs and regulator pages for my own contract work — opposing counsel slipped an arbitration clause past me once, and I found out from the court filing. DriftPatrol is the tool I wish I'd had.
I'm charging $199/mo because I want 10 customers who'll tell me what's wrong with it, not 1,000 who'll churn silently. If you're one of those 10, reply to the confirmation email and tell me the first URL you'd want watched. That's how you skip the queue.