Manifesto
Why compliance needs a published standard.
Every firm reads the same rule and builds its own private map. The map lives in a vendor, a spreadsheet, or someone's head. When the rule changes, nobody can see which line of the map moved.
A published standard makes the map checkable. CLHEAR takes the text of a law, a regulation, or a standard and writes it down as records. A reference blueprint comes out the other side. Each item points back to the clause it came from. You can read it, run it, and argue with it.
The specification, the schemas, and the engine are published. Anyone can run them on their own sources. Changes go through public review. That is what open means here. It is not a black box that only one vendor can interpret.
The platform that runs the standard can sit in the firm's own cloud. The firm's data stays there. What comes in from outside is the official text, and a signed release of the standard.
Start with one regulation. See the program the rule requires, the program you already run, and the gap between them. Then do it again for the next rule, in the same language.