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Overview Tools 4 · Change Explainer
Tool 4 · amendment lifecycle

Change Explainer: paste two versions of an IHS clause. Get a structured explanation, an importer-facing summary, and a notification email draft.

Every IHS amendment requires an industry notification, an updated guidance page, and sometimes a stakeholder briefing. The work is high-frequency and inconsistent across analysts. This tool produces a complete first draft of all three from the before-and-after text alone, with full citation back to the diff and explicit operational and risk impact ratings.

Cuts: drafting time on every amendment notification, lifts notification consistency
Step: 07 of the IHS revision lifecycle
Architecture: draft only, analyst owns the sent notification
Why this matters

The pattern this addresses

Every IHS amendment generates a notification cycle: an industry update, an updated guidance page, sometimes a stakeholder briefing. Each requires an analyst to articulate what changed, what it means in practice for importers, and what the operational implications are. The work is low-novelty per amendment, high-volume across the year, and inconsistent in tone across analysts. Industry submitters routinely flag inconsistency in MPI notifications as a quality issue.

How the tool works

The tool takes two inputs: the before text and the after text. It produces a clean diff. For each change it explains what changed in plain language, what it means in practice for importers, the operational impact, and the risk impact, with a severity rating. It then drafts an industry notification email in the BIES house format, ready for analyst review and Director sign-out.

Live demo

Try it on a sample amendment. Or paste your own before-and-after.

The samples are realistic before-and-after pairs based on recent IHS amendments. The tool produces a complete change package in seconds.

Change Explainer Tool 4 · Anthropic Claude
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Change explanation & notification draft