Esper expands statewide in Tennessee
Esper is pleased to announce our expanded, statewide partnership with the State of Tennessee. Esper has proudly supported Tennessee’s regulatory reform initiative since piloting with the Volunteer State in 2019. With the latest expansion, Esper will serve as the operating system for regulation management across all Tennessee executive branch agencies.
Tennessee has been at the forefront of regulatory best practices across state governments and serves as a model for other Esper customers looking to adopt regulatory review standards.
A Little History:
- 2019 Esper Pilot with 5 executive branch agencies to support rulemaking
- 2021 Tennessee legislature passes retrospective review requirements
- 2022 Esper supports retrospective review for exec branch agencies
- 2023 Esper becomes regulatory operating system for TN executive branch agencies
What is a retrospective review? Why is it important?
While retrospective review is a relatively new concept, it’s used extensively across state and federal government agencies as a mechanism to ensure outdated and redundant policies are removed or updated. Retrospective reviews require agencies to analyze and update their policies on a regular cadence.
In Tennessee, executive branch agencies are required to review and recertify regulations every 8 years. This important accountability measure helps reduce regulatory burden on citizens and ensures regulations reflect modern standards.
Many Tennessee agencies have hundreds of regulations, and manually reviewing regulations is a daunting task without technology. With Esper, Tennessee agencies now have a modern platform for creating and managing regulations and the retrospective review process.
“Tennessee was one of Esper’s early adopters, and we are grateful for the expanded opportunity to continue supporting their important work of modernizing regulations for Tennesseans,” says Esper CEO Maleka Momand.
Moving forward, Esper will serve as the regulatory source of truth for state executive branch agencies, eliminating the need for paper-based, manual processes. To learn more about Esper’s work in Tennessee and dozens of other state agencies, reach out below!
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.
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