Fed10 Replaces Your $500-an-Hour Policy Consultant with AI That Reads Every Bill in America

The Macro: Most Companies Do Not Know When Laws Change Until It Is Too Late

Every business is affected by legislation. Tax law changes affect financial planning. Labor regulations affect hiring practices. Industry-specific regulations affect product development and compliance. But most companies, especially small and mid-size ones, have no systematic way to track legislative changes that affect their business.

The traditional approach is to hire a policy consultant or government affairs firm. These charge $300 to $500 per hour and typically monitor a handful of legislative bodies relevant to their clients. For a company operating across multiple states, comprehensive legislative monitoring might require multiple consultants at combined costs of $100K or more annually.

Larger companies maintain internal government affairs teams. Smaller companies rely on trade associations for policy updates. And the vast middle market of businesses gets surprised by regulatory changes because they cannot justify the cost of comprehensive monitoring.

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of bills are introduced across 50 state legislatures and Congress every year. The volume of legislative activity is impossible for any human team to comprehensively track and analyze.

Fed10, backed by Y Combinator, is a legislative consulting firm staffed by AI agents. They monitor every bill across the US, flag threats to your business, and deliver actionable insights.

The Micro: Built by Lobbyists Who Passed Legislation

Armand Iorgulescu (CEO), Zayan Islam (CTO), and Winston Wei (COO/CPO) are three ex-lobbyists who “passed legislation before we could vote” and left Harvard, Williams, and Berkeley to build Fed10. This is not a tech team learning about policy. These are policy professionals who built the tech to automate their own expertise.

The domain expertise matters enormously in this space. Understanding which provisions in a bill actually affect a specific industry requires contextual knowledge that generic AI does not have. A bill about “infrastructure spending” might include a provision that affects software licensing requirements for government contractors. Only someone who understands both the policy domain and the client’s business would flag that connection.

Fed10 provides real-time tracking across all 50 states plus Congress, AI-powered bill analysis with custom alerts, and policy impact assessments. The positioning is clear: the same work a $500/hr consultant does, delivered in seconds instead of days, at a fraction of the cost.

Competitors include FiscalNote (legislative tracking), Quorum (government affairs software), and Bloomberg Government. These are established platforms that serve large enterprises and government affairs teams. Fed10’s angle is accessibility: bringing legislative intelligence to companies that cannot afford traditional consulting or enterprise software.

The Verdict

Fed10 is democratizing access to legislative intelligence. The combination of policy domain expertise and AI analysis is exactly what this market needs.

At 30 days: how many companies are actively using Fed10 alerts, and what is the false positive rate on relevance?

At 60 days: has a Fed10 alert helped a customer proactively respond to a legislative threat that they would have otherwise missed?

At 90 days: is Fed10 expanding into proactive lobbying support, or staying focused on monitoring and analysis?

I think Fed10 is well-positioned. Legislative monitoring is one of those services that most companies need and few can afford. AI makes comprehensive monitoring feasible at a price point that opens the market to thousands of businesses that currently have no legislative intelligence. The founding team’s policy background gives them credibility and domain knowledge that pure tech teams would need years to develop.