Webinar Recap: Web Compliance, Simplified

Product

Published: 28 Oct 2025

For compliance teams at RIAs and broker-dealers, capturing website content changes and proving oversight is an ongoing challenge. We recently hosted a live product demo, "Web Compliance, Simplified: Monitor, Review, & Report Web Changes in Minutes", with our VP of Product, Jamie Hoyle, leading the session.

The session introduced Web Changes, our new website monitoring solution that combines high-fidelity archiving with intelligent change detection. Jamie walked through how the platform addresses the compliance gaps firms face, demonstrating what makes effective website monitoring different, and how to bridge the gap between passive archiving and active supervision.

Two Paths to the Same Problem

Jamie opened by acknowledging that attendees likely fell into one of two camps, both facing the same underlying issue:

Camp One is the existing MirrorWeb customers who rely on our high-fidelity website archiving - perfect captures, PDF exports, and interactive browser-based versions that prove what their sites displayed on any given date. They've been asking for one critical addition: alerts when things change. When disclosures are modified or disclaimers updated, they need to know immediately. This has been the number one feature request we've heard over the years.

Camp Two relies on change monitoring tools that send email alerts when websites update. However, these solutions cannot prove what was displayed on specific dates because they lack archiving capabilities. When regulators request evidence of website content from six months prior, there is no audit-ready proof.

Web Changes was designed to address both scenarios by combining comprehensive archiving with intelligent change detection.

How It Works

High-Fidelity Archiving Foundation
Before demonstrating change monitoring, Jamie showcased what makes MirrorWeb's archiving different. The platform captures websites using ISO standard WARC format, with every page and asset assigned a secure hash for proof of authenticity. Users can navigate through archived sites as if they were live - clicking links, scrolling pages, and viewing all content exactly as it appeared on any given date.

Intelligent Change Detection
When changes occur, the system provides side-by-side comparisons showing exactly what text, images, or disclosures were modified. During the demo, Jamie walked through a real example where featured homepage content had been updated. Within seconds, it was clear exactly what changed and whether it required action. Built-in filtering removes technical noise like CSS updates and timestamps, surfacing only material changes that require compliance review.

Streamlined Review Process
Reviewing changes takes under a minute. The interface shows before-and-after content side by side, allowing teams to quickly assess whether changes are compliant, add comments, and move to the next item. For firms currently taking manual screenshots or comparing versions in spreadsheets, this eliminates significant administrative burden.

Complete Audit Trail
Every review action is automatically logged - who viewed what, when comparisons were made, and what was marked compliant. Export functionality generates comprehensive documentation ready for regulatory examinations, with PDF exports that include attestation, SHA-1 hashes, and timestamps.

Why It Matters

Jamie emphasized a reality many compliance officers face: being asked to do more monitoring with fewer resources. Many firms still rely on manual processes - taking screenshots, filling out Excel spreadsheets, performing scheduled spot checks.

By building change detection directly on the archived content itself, Web Changes creates one source of truth and eliminates reconciliation issues between separate archiving and monitoring tools. As Jamie put it, this is about giving time back to compliance officers so they can focus on more strategic work.

Most importantly, it transforms website oversight from reactive checking into proactive monitoring. Compliance teams can finally move from manual tracking to automated alerts backed by complete, browsable archives - what Jamie described as a "set it and forget it" approach that runs in the background until attention is needed.

The webinar made one thing clear: effective website compliance isn't about choosing between archiving or monitoring - both need to work together seamlessly. As Jamie emphasized, this isn't about adding more work, but making compliance easier. With the right foundation built on accurate archives, filtered alerts that surface only what matters, and instant documentation for examinations, compliance teams can finally move from reactive scrambling to proactive oversight.