International law firm Simmons & Simmons has today announced the launch of STRIDE, a pioneering digital regulation tracker designed to help global organisations navigate the rapidly evolving digital regulatory landscape.
With dozens of complex new laws each year across AI, data, platform regulation, cybersecurity, crypto, and quantum technologies, businesses operating internationally face mounting challenges to remain compliant and plan ahead.
Regulations often vary widely between jurisdictions, while existing sources of information are often patchy and outdated, with no globally recognised benchmark.
STRIDE (Simmons Technology Regulation Intelligence for the Digital Economy), is the first platform of its kind offered by a law firm – a structured, live, global digital regulation database, covering jurisdictions across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
No other law firm offers a live, analyst-grade, horizon-scanning observatory for digital regulation, with rich detail, custom filtering, and modern tooling
STRIDE sets a new standard for clarity and comparability, while its index aspires to become the global reference point for digital regulation.
“STRIDE is designed to give businesses clarity and confidence in an era of accelerating regulatory and technological change,” said Rich Folsom, Partner and specialist technology and data lawyer at Simmons & Simmons.
“There’s famously no such thing as ‘too much information’, just filter failure. It’s great to be able to bring modern tooling to this problem, empowering organisations to make informed decisions, manage risk, and stay ahead of what’s next”
STRIDE not only equips organisations for the legal complexities of AI implementations, but can itself form part of those implementations. STRIDE includes the world’s first law firm ‘MCP’ or ‘model context protocol’ allowing AI agents to directly query STRIDE for regulatory updates and intelligence, whether as part of general LLM chat enquiries, or to build directly into AI-powered workflows.
Stride has been launched today [Tuesday 24 February] – and is led by Simmons & Simmons Partners, Christopher Götz, Emily Jones, Lawrence Brown, Calum Murray, and Rich Folsom.
The new platform will feature at Simmons & Simmons’ flagship tech event held on 26 February in London this week – TECH Ignite.
