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Saper Vedere's public affairs SaaS.

FOLLAW indexes the corpora of public decision-making, and tracks the players who produce them and the topics that run through them. Not one more aggregator: a consultancy's tool, which our teams use on their own assignments.

16 corpora
From amendment to Official Journal
Almost 1,000
Ready-to-use topics tracked
4 channels
Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram
Why FOLLAW

See public decisions coming, rather than suffer them.

A public affairs department spends more time building its monitoring dashboards than reading their signals. FOLLAW reverses that logic: the tool absorbs the raw data, and we hand you the signals that matter.

A public affairs file plays out on three levels at once: the corpora where the decision is written, the players who carry it, the topics that run through it. FOLLAW holds all three in one tool, and it is the first that makes the difference: without the corpora, you are commenting on a decision you have not read.

FOLLAW does not replace a public affairs consultant. It equips them. Our teams use it on every assignment, our clients use it directly to follow their file, and our partners recommend it because the data is sourced and the method traceable.

We have been developing FOLLAW for several years, with a team of developers embedded in the consultancy. It is not a side project, it is a proprietary SaaS in production, used by federations, funds, industry sectors and public affairs departments of large groups.

The corpora

What FOLLAW indexes, source by source.

National Assembly National AssemblyPalais Bourbon
  • Legislative files: government bills (PJL) and private member's bills (PPL)
  • Amendments tabled in committee and in plenary
  • Written questions, questions to the Government, oral questions without debate
  • Minutes of plenary and committee sittings
  • Public votes and official results
  • Transcripts of sittings, in the source text
  • Standing committees, study groups, political groups
  • Business agenda, order papers
  • Citizens' petitions

More than 700,000 amendments indexed, National Assembly and Senate combined, from committee to plenary.

Senate SenatePalais du Luxembourg
  • Legislative files and shuttle between the two chambers
  • Amendments tabled in committee and in plenary
  • Written questions, questions to the Government, oral questions without debate
  • Minutes of plenary and committee sittings
  • Public votes and official results
  • Committees and political groups
  • Business agenda, order papers
  • Citizens' petitions

A text can be followed from one chamber to the other, without changing tools or rebuilding the timeline by hand.

Légifrance Official JournalJORF, via Légifrance
  • Decrees, orders and ordinances published in the JORF
  • Enacted texts, from tabling to publication
  • Issuing ministry and NOR number of each text
  • Direct link to the text on Légifrance
  • Public appointments: ministerial offices, public bodies, prefectural corps, director-general posts

More than 100,000 texts indexed, sortable by type and by ministry, kept apart from appointments so as not to drown the regulations.

French Republic Executive agendasÉlysée, Matignon, ministries
  • President of the Republic's agenda
  • Prime Minister's agenda
  • Agendas of ministers and their departments
  • Composition of ministerial offices
  • Statements and positions of the executive

Know who meets whom, and when, before the decision is written.

Municipalities
prefectures and DREALs TerritoriesThe local level of decision-making
  • Tracked municipalities and their mayors
  • Results of the 2026 municipal elections
  • Parliamentarians attached to each territory
  • Prefectures and regional directorates for the environment, planning and housing

A national file is won or lost on the ground. Local players enter the same monitoring as national ones.

High Authority for Transparency in Public Life HATVPInterest representatives
  • Register of interest representatives and their declared activities
  • Declarations of interests and assets of public officials
  • Public affairs consultancies and their declared clients
  • Cross-referenced with parliamentary activity: who lobbies for what, on which texts
  • Declared meetings with public decision-makers

More than 140,000 profiles of interest representatives, readable by file and by political group.

BOAMP
and TED Public procurementCalls for tender
  • Contract notices published in the Bulletin officiel des annonces des marchés publics
  • European contracts published in TED, above EU thresholds
  • Awards and winners, when the notice publishes them
  • Recurring buyers, tracked by name

Daily collection on your keywords and your territories, with your exclusions.

Authorities
and oversight bodies Public reportsExpertise and evaluation
  • Reports, opinions and evaluations, as they are published
Court of Audit French National Authority for Health French National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products General Inspectorate of Social Affairs
Morning shows
radio and television Political interviewsWhat is said at 8.20am
  • Appearances of political leaders on the morning shows
  • Station, programme and guest of the day
  • Full transcript of the interview, not just a summary
  • Podcasts and videos of the players in your file

A position is often taken on air before it is written into an amendment.

Institutional
press Specialist mediaWhat lies outside the text of the decision
  • Politico
  • Contexte
  • L'Informé

What is being prepared before it is tabled, and what the official corpus will only reveal later.

Public
statements Elected officials and stakeholdersSocietal intelligence
  • Elected officials' posts on social media
  • Public positions of NGOs, professional federations and associations
  • Press releases and opinion pieces linked to your issues
  • Newsletters and specialist bulletins in your sector

This corpus is what makes FOLLAW societal intelligence and not just institutional monitoring.

European Parliament European ParliamentBrussels and Strasbourg
  • Legislative procedures and their official timetable
  • Amendments, reports and committee opinions
  • European parliamentary questions
  • Plenary votes, including roll-call votes
  • Directory of MEPs, committees and each member's activity
  • Declared meetings between MEPs and interest representatives
European Commission European CommissionThe right of initiative
  • Public consultations and calls for input
  • Annual work programme and announced texts
  • Delegated and implementing acts
  • National transposition measures, country by country
  • Beneficiaries of European funding

The moment to influence a European text comes before its publication, during the consultation.

Council
of the European Union Member StatesConfigurations and presidencies
  • Council meetings and sectoral configurations
  • Rotating presidency calendar

The position of Member States is prepared there, often far from the Parliament's spotlight.

EUR-Lex Official Journal of the European UnionOJEU, via EUR-Lex
  • Regulations, directives and decisions published in the OJEU
  • Adopted acts, from the tabling of the proposal to publication

The core of the scope remains French: National Assembly, Senate, Official Journal, HATVP, executive agendas and territories. The European level complements it, it does not replace it.

BelgiumFederal, regions and communities
  • Chamber of RepresentativesChamber of RepresentativesFederal
  • Senate of BelgiumSenateFederal
  • FPS JusticeMoniteur belgeOfficial publications
  • FPS JusticeJustelConsolidated legislation
  • Vlaams ParlementVlaams ParlementRegion and community
  • Parliament of WalloniaParliament of WalloniaRegion
  • Parliament of the Brussels-Capital RegionParliament of the Brussels-Capital RegionRegion
  • Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels FederationParliament of the Wallonia-Brussels FederationCommunity
  • Parlament der Deutschsprachigen GemeinschaftParlament der Deutschsprachigen GemeinschaftGerman-speaking Community
  • Francophone Brussels ParliamentFrancophone Brussels ParliamentCOCOF
  • Common Community CommissionUnited Assembly of the Common Community CommissionCOCOM
  • Vlaamse GemeenschapscommissieRaad van de Vlaamse GemeenschapscommissieVGC

Twelve institutions, from the federal level to the Brussels community commissions, in the country's three official languages. Saper Vedere has had an office in Brussels since 2017: Belgian public decision-making is followed where it is written, not in its French translation.

Your screens

Fifteen screens, one for each question you ask yourself.

Control centre

All corpora in a single feed, filterable by France or Europe. The landing screen, the morning one.

News

Press releases, European news, newsletters and bulletins, continuously.

Agenda

Public deadlines, highlights and appointments, brought together in one view, by the week or over twelve months.

Official Journal

The texts that move a rule relevant to your monitoring, kept apart from appointments.

Appointments

The people who matter for a file: ministerial offices, public bodies, prefectural corps, director-general posts.

Morning shows

The day's guests, their station, their programme, and the full transcript of what they said.

Parliamentary activity

Questions to the Government, written questions, amendments and transcripts, with trends and deadlines.

Legislative files

Sorted by decreasing impact on your organisation, then by date of the latest event, all types of text combined.

Votes and ballots

Public votes and official results of the National Assembly, and plenary votes of the European Parliament.

Transcripts

Parliamentary sittings and statements, in the source text, not in a summary.

Players

Government, ministerial offices, Parliament, committees and bodies: the profile sheet before the meeting.

Territorial map

Tracked municipalities, mayors, 2026 municipal election results and attached parliamentarians.

Lobbies and meetings

Understand who is acting, on which files and with which political groups.

Calls for tender

The public contracts in your scope, collected every day on your keywords and your territories.

My follows

Every item tracked by your organisation, gathered in one place: texts, players, topics.

What FOLLAW does

Players and topics, on the same corpora.

01

Players, one by one

More than 20,000 profiles of parliamentarians, ministers, cabinet members and senior civil servants, linked to their political group, their committees and their territory. Know the players before the meeting, not after.

02

Stakeholders

NGOs, professional federations, associations: their public statements enter the same monitoring as the texts. A file is never decided in the chamber alone.

03

Interest representatives

The HATVP register cross-referenced with parliamentary activity: who lobbies for what, how intensely, on which texts and with which political groups. Comparative reading by sector, full traceability.

04

Almost 1,000 topics tracked

Pre-configured topic monitoring covers the major subjects of public decision-making. You see your sector before you have written your first query.

05

Your monitoring, at your level of detail

Your keywords, your players, your texts: monitoring is configured on your scope, saved and replayed. What you follow is found in one place, from the text to the person. The corpora do not move, your reading of them does.

06

Alerts, digests, export

Alerts by email, Slack, Teams or Telegram as soon as information enters your scope. Digests for quiet reading, export of data and calendar for your own analyses.

Deliverables

What comes out of the tool, ready to circulate.

01

Player profile sheet

A decision-maker's portrait: terms of office, committees, public positions, votes, speeches, circle. What would have taken you three hours to assemble.

02

Territory profile

A territory and its elected officials: municipality, constituency, attached parliamentarians, local issues and public players present.

03

Meeting plan

Who to meet on a file, in what order, with what argument. The plan is built on the corpora, not on a hunch.

04

Letters to elected officials and reply tracking

A personalised letter for each recipient, sent as a campaign, with the replies received gathered in one place.

Who it is for

Who uses FOLLAW today.

01

Public affairs departments

Large groups, sensitive industries, companies with high regulatory exposure.

02

Federations and industry bodies

Tracking of sector files.

03

Funds and public bodies

Continuous monitoring of the texts that govern their activity.

04

Partner public affairs consultancies

Monitoring tooling for teams that want to move beyond Excel without losing quality.

FAQ

Your questions about FOLLAW.

Which corpora does FOLLAW index?

Sixteen corpora. French side: legislative files (government bills and private member's bills), amendments tabled in committee and in plenary, parliamentary questions (written, to the Government, oral without debate), minutes and transcripts of sittings, public votes, the Journal officiel de la République française, public appointments, the agendas of the National Assembly, the Senate and the executive, citizens' petitions, the HATVP register of interest representatives, territories (municipalities, mayors, prefectures and DREALs), BOAMP public procurement, reports from authorities and oversight bodies, radio and television morning shows, institutional press and the public statements of elected officials and stakeholders. European side: the European Parliament, the European Commission, the Council of the Union and the Official Journal of the European Union. Belgian side: the twelve federal, regional and community institutions, from the Chamber of Representatives to the Moniteur belge.

Does FOLLAW cover the European level?

Yes, with four dedicated corpora. The European Parliament: legislative procedures, amendments and committee reports, questions, plenary votes, directory and activity of MEPs, declared meetings. The European Commission: public consultations, work programme, delegated and implementing acts, national transposition measures, beneficiaries of funding. The Council of the Union: meetings and configurations. And the Official Journal of the Union, where adopted acts are published. The core of the scope remains French: National Assembly, Senate, Official Journal, HATVP, executive agendas and territories.

Does FOLLAW cover Belgium?

Yes, with twelve institutions. At federal level: the Chamber of Representatives, the Senate, the Moniteur belge and Justel. At regional and community level: the Vlaams Parlement, the Parliament of Wallonia, the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region, the Parliament of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation and the Parlament der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft. In Brussels: the Francophone Brussels Parliament (COCOF), the United Assembly of the Common Community Commission (COCOM) and the Raad van de Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie (VGC). Texts are tracked in their original language, French, Dutch or German.

Does FOLLAW track public procurement?

Yes. Contract notices published in the Bulletin officiel des annonces des marchés publics and European contracts published in TED are collected every day, on your keywords, your territories and your exclusions. Awards and winners are captured when the notice publishes them, and recurring buyers can be tracked by name.

What does FOLLAW produce for your meetings?

A player profile sheet (terms of office, committees, public positions, votes, speeches, circle), a territory sheet, a meeting plan built on the corpora, and a personalised letter to elected officials, with the replies coming back to the same place. Data and calendar can be exported for your own analyses.

How does FOLLAW differ from other institutional monitoring platforms?

FOLLAW is a consultancy's tool: it is published by Saper Vedere, our teams use it on their own assignments, and human support helps interpret the data. You do not receive a licence, you receive a fully equipped service.

How are you alerted when a corpus changes?

By email, Slack, Teams or Telegram, as soon as information enters your scope. Digests and data export complement the real-time alerts.

Can FOLLAW be used without a consulting engagement?

Yes. FOLLAW is a standalone product. Public affairs consulting engagements come on top of it, they do not replace it. Some organisations start with the tool, others with the advice, and the two eventually meet.

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