5 Ways to Make Better Policy in Your Agency
Crafting effective policies is a top priority for proactive governments. By adopting strategic approaches, agencies can create regulations that truly serve their communities. These are our top pieces of advice for proactive governments looking to make the best possible policy for residents:
Crafting effective policies is a top priority for proactive governments. By adopting strategic approaches, agencies can create regulations that truly serve their communities. These are our top pieces of advice for proactive governments looking to make the best possible policy for residents: Don’t recreate the wheel. When you’re beginning to create policy on a new issue, research the issue in neighboring governments to understand how they regulate the issue. Maybe there’s parts of their policies you want to adopt, or avoid! Check the federal & state landscape. Are there conflicting state and federal statutes you need to take into consideration? Do your homework to make sure your government isn’t going afoul of any statutes you need to be in compliance with.
Frequently Asked Questions
Esper’s Regulation & Code Management module is a platform that moves rulemaking and regulatory drafting out of disconnected tools (spreadsheets, emails, shared drives) and into a unified, auditable workflow. It supports collaborative drafting, version control, automated publishing, compliance deadlines, and AI-powered search across your regulations. Esper
Esper is primarily targeted at government agencies (state, local, regulatory bodies) that must manage, publish, and enforce rules, codes, or regulations. It helps modernize the regulatory process in a transparent, auditable fashion.
Some of the core features include:
- Collaborative drafting with versioning and redlines
- Workflow and approval routing (assign owners, set deadlines, send reminders)
- Automated publishing in appropriate formats
- AI-enabled search to quickly find portions of regulations with citation support
- Task management and visibility into bottlenecks
Esper maintains all drafts, redlines, and versions within a single system. That ensures every change is tracked, auditable, and tied to the appropriate approval steps, so stakeholders can always see “who changed what when.”
Every rulemaking task (e.g. drafting, review, public comment, approval) is assigned an owner and due date. The system sends reminders, tracks overdue items, and makes bottlenecks visible so leadership can intervene.
