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Notifications

Stay current without living in the app — feed, email digests, and Slack.

Activity feed

The workspace Feed is reverse-chronological by source date (when the legislature filed the version or action), not when Billy ingested it. New versions of tracked bills show the AI change headline inline when ready — while a summary is still generating, the row shows a small amber “Summarizing…” indicator. Each new-version row also carries a compact size meter (edit volume: +n/−m words) and, when the rollup is ready, a confidence orb (AI trust, not legal impact). Status changes, language-watch hits, and related events appear in the same stream. The Suggestions chip jumps to Find → Suggestions for accept / dismiss triage with reason chips. Other chips filter by event type (New version, Status). A per-jurisdiction “data as of” freshness footer helps you calibrate trust — see Coverage.

Feed events for versions and status changes — size meters show edit volume; confidence orbs are AI trust only. Suggestions triage lives under Find.

Email digest frequency

In Settings → Notifications, choose how aggressively Billy emails you:

  • Realtime — email as events fire (highest urgency).
  • Daily — batched digest (default for many teams; typically morning ET).
  • Weekly — lower cadence for monitor-only matters.

Workspace default frequency applies to members; individuals can override with their own preference when the plan allows. In-app notifications (bell) fan out regardless of digest batching.

Slack webhook

  1. In Settings → Notifications, click Connect Slack. On plans that include Slack, paste an Incoming Webhook URL and save.
  2. If Slack isn’t on your plan, Billy shows that after you click — it doesn’t advertise the upsell until you try.

What generates alerts

  • New versions of tracked bills (headline appears on the version row when the AI summary finishes; digests/Slack also note summary-ready)
  • New suggestions and resurfaced suggestions
  • Status changes on tracked bills
  • Hearings — a tracked bill lands on a committee agenda, or a scheduled hearing changes its date, time, or room
  • Regulations — stage changes, new documents on a tracked docket, and comment-deadline reminders (7 days and 1 day out)
  • Saved-search matches (see below)
  • Summary review activity and language-watch matches
  • Roll-call votes on tracked bills when tallies are published (vote_recorded)
  • Language spread — a clause watch appears in two or more jurisdictions (language_spread; see Language watches)
  • Morning brief when overnight activity is worth narrating (see Agentic assists)

Saved-search alerts

Any keyword search under Find → Bills can be saved. Billy re-runs saved searches hourly against fresh legislative activity; each new match lands in the feed and the bell once — a bill never alerts the same search twice. Saved searches appear as chips under the search box, where one click re-runs them and the × removes them.

RSS feeds

For readers, internal dashboards, or a Slack RSS app, Billy publishes public feeds of recent activity — no account needed, filterable by jurisdiction and keyword:

  • Bill activity — /api/v1/rss/bills.xml?jurisdiction=in (optionally add &query=…)
  • Rulemaking activity — /api/v1/rss/regulations.xml?jurisdiction=us