The Company
About Ruleward
Built in Washington, DC for the compliance officers who are closest to the regulatory action — and most underserved by the tools available to them.
The Founding Story
Wilson Tremblay founded Ruleward after spending several years advising financial services compliance teams on regulatory risk management programs. The pattern he kept observing was consistent: compliance officers at mid-size banks and insurers were operating with a fundamental information asymmetry compared to the large institutions they competed against.
Large banks have dedicated regulatory affairs teams, subscriptions to expensive wire services, and in some cases, in-house teams of former regulators whose job is to track agency activity in real time. Community and mid-size institutions often had one or two compliance officers managing the same regulatory landscape — relying on general industry newsletters, agency email lists, and manual monitoring processes that hadn't changed in a decade.
The gap wasn't capability — the compliance officers at mid-size institutions were often more knowledgeable about their specific regulatory relationships than their peers at larger banks. The gap was information infrastructure: they didn't have early warning of regulatory changes the way a K Street law firm's regulatory monitoring desk did.
Ruleward was designed to close that gap — not by providing legal advice, but by providing the same structured awareness of regulatory change that the largest institutions take for granted.
Give compliance officers at mid-size regulated firms the same awareness of regulatory change that K Street lobbying shops have — without the K Street retainer.
The Team
Built by people with backgrounds in federal financial regulation, bank examination, regulatory law, and compliance operations.
Wilson Tremblay
Founder
Priya Harrington
Head of Regulatory Affairs
Marcus Reyes
Policy Data Scientist
James Aldrich
Financial Regulatory Counsel
Washington, DC — By Design
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW is not a mailing address for us — it is an ecosystem decision. Being headquartered in Washington, DC, four blocks from the Treasury Department and within walking distance of the OCC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, and CFPB, is part of how we operate.
Our team participates in public comment processes, attends agency symposia and conferences, and maintains relationships in the regulatory community that inform our coverage priorities and methodology updates.
When a new agency interpretation emerges informally — in a speech, in a conference Q&A, in informal guidance — our proximity means we learn about it faster. That awareness is part of what we deliver to compliance teams who can't maintain a DC presence of their own.
