RegAtlas is a regulatory reference platform built to turn the Code of Federal Regulations into structured, searchable, portable content. The current product covers the entirety of Title 29 CFR, while the ingestion architecture is being expanded to support additional CFR titles.
The product today
RegAtlas began with the OSHA standards people reach for most often, but the underlying project has grown beyond 1910 and 1926. The current content system covers all of Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations and presents it through a purpose-built mobile reference experience.
Android regulatory reference application
Full Title 29 coverageThe problem is not access to regulation text. Official sources already provide authoritative regulations. The problem is turning thousands of sections and deeply nested paragraphs into something that is comfortable to search, carry, revisit, and use while doing real work.
RegAtlas treats regulatory text as structured application data instead of as a webpage or static document. That makes the regulatory library easier to navigate on a phone and creates the foundation for features such as offline content, saved material, related interpretations, state-plan sources, cross-references, and future downloadable CFR packages.
It is deliberately an independent reference layer. Official sources remain the authority; RegAtlas focuses on usability, organization, and reliable access to that material.
Titles, parts, subparts, sections, and paragraph structures remain explicit rather than flattening an entire regulation into one long document.
The architecture separates application code from regulatory content, allowing libraries to be updated and eventually downloaded independently.
The same data model can attach interpretation material, state-plan sources, favorites, and related references to the regulation being used.
Under the hood
RegAtlas is not maintained by hand-copying regulations into an app. The content layer is generated through custom ingestion tooling that converts source regulatory material into a consistent application schema, validates it, and produces versionable content packages.
Pull authoritative regulatory source material and update feeds into a controlled ingestion workspace.
Custom parsers identify structural boundaries such as titles, parts, subparts, sections, headings, and nested paragraphs.
Source-specific formatting is mapped into a common content model so the client can treat every regulation consistently.
Automated quality gates check structure, expected coverage, counts, identifiers, and content integrity before publication.
Validated content is transformed into application-ready, versioned regulatory packages optimized for fast local consumption.
Automated workflows can detect and publish changes without treating the entire regulatory library as a manual app release.
Regulatory sources are not perfectly uniform. The pipeline uses source-specific parsing and adapter logic where necessary, then normalizes the result into a common downstream schema. That approach is already important for state-plan material and becomes increasingly valuable as RegAtlas expands across additional CFR titles.
A parser that runs without crashing is not enough. RegAtlas uses structural validation and expected-content checks so missing sections, abnormal paragraph counts, malformed hierarchy, or incomplete source changes can be stopped before they become a user-facing content package.
Separate automation is being developed for content that changes on a different cadence, including interpretation material and update feeds. This keeps the system modular: the app, federal regulations, interpretations, and future regulatory libraries do not all need to move as one monolithic release.
Title 29 is the first complete federal title, but it is also the proving ground for a broader content platform. The goal of the current pipeline work is to make adding a CFR title primarily an ingestion-and-validation problem rather than rebuilding the application for each subject area.
Engineering perspective
For someone evaluating the work behind the product, the visible Android app is only the final layer. The project combines application development with data ingestion, schema design, automation, validation, distribution, and production service integration.
Where RegAtlas goes next
The long-term direction is a general regulatory reference platform where users can install the regulatory packages relevant to their work instead of relying on a separate application for every title or agency.
RegAtlas / development inquiries
Product feedback, testing interest, professional use cases, and software-development inquiries are welcome.
RegAtlas is an independent reference product and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an official product of OSHA, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Office of the Federal Register, or the United States Government. Regulatory requirements should be verified against current official sources.