Real-time alerts for African regulation changes.
Fintech founders and compliance teams in Africa struggle with fragmented regulations scattered across PDFs, circulars, emails, and portals, causing unintentional non-compliance and business failure.
RegAlertAfrica monitors official sources for updates to fintech regs across Africa and sends personalized email/Slack alerts. Users subscribe to topics like 'Nigeria payments' and get notified instantly with summaries. This prevents compliance surprises and business disruptions.
Founders and compliance teams of fintech companies operating in Africa
Proactive monitoring with fintech-specific change detection, no generic RSS feeds.
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Create custom subscriptions by country, keyword, authority.
Daily scans of portals/PDFs for changes.
Email and in-app alerts with change summaries.
View all active alerts and history.
Auth and profile settings.
Send alerts to Slack channels.
Searchable history of all alerts.
Import multiple topics via CSV.
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| slack_webhook | text | Yes |
| created_at | timestamp | No |
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| country | text | No |
| keywords | text | No |
| active | bool | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| subscription_id | uuid | No |
| title | text | No |
| summary | text | No |
| source_url | text | Yes |
| sent_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
/api/subscriptionsCreate subscription
/api/alertsFetch user alerts
/api/monitorInternal: Trigger monitoring cron
Weekly scans
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 80 | 6% | $192 | $2,304 |
| Month 6 | 600 | 9% | $2,436 | $29,232 |
Custom alerts for fintech regs – stay ahead of compliance risks.
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Global coverage
Expensive, not Africa granular
Affordable, hyper-local alerts
Network of source monitors building unique change dataset.
Rising enforcement (e.g., Nigeria 2024 fines) amid fintech funding surge.
Scraper blocks
Multiple sources + manual feeds
Source maintenance
Partnerships with regulators
Success: 80% interested
Success: 15 active subs
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