ClearRules Labs — We translate government rules into personal answers.

We translate government rules into personal answers.

Policy is written in statutes. It lands as a number on your kitchen table — whether you still qualify, what you owe, what happens next. We turn that dense text into free, bilingual tools that answer for your situation, not the generic case.

Free, always No account needed Sources shown

Small tools that answer one question properly

One rule system per tool, verified end to end. Live tools are free forever — that is the point of them, not a trial.

Medicaid Work Requirement Navigator

Live · EN + ES

For Medicaid enrollees in 15 states

The 2027 Medicaid community-engagement requirement, translated into a two-minute check: the 80-hour vs $580/month compliance calculator, an exemption self-check, and a 30-day plan for a non-compliance notice.

Open the navigator

2026 ACA Subsidy & Cliff Calculator

Live · EN + ES

For Marketplace enrollees facing the 400% FPL cliff

The enhanced subsidies expired and the 400% cliff is back. Estimate your premium tax credit from the official IRS table, see exactly how far you sit from the cliff, and test whether pre-tax contributions could restore it.

Estimate your subsidy

Medicaid State Tracker

Live · EN

For Journalists, researchers, advocates

An open dataset of enforcement dates, redetermination cycles, lookback periods and disenrollments — per-field sources and last-verified dates included, free to cite with attribution.

Browse the dataset

Priority Date Watch

Live · 中文 + EN

For H-1B holders, EB-2/EB-3 applicants and employers

A separate site from the same studio: the monthly Visa Bulletin translated into a personal answer — priority-date decoding with a 12-period range, H-1B lottery odds with the official numerator and denominator, DOL wage levels, an EB-1A self-check and the new H-1B fees.

Open Priority Date Watch

More rule-translators

In research

For Benefits, immigration-workforce rules, freelancer taxes

In research now. Each one ships only when its underlying policy data can be verified end to end against primary sources — we publish the standard first, then the tool.

Ask us for an early look

Thirty years of rulebook, reduced to your three answers

You describe your situation

Your state, household size, income, hours — in plain language. No login, no social security number, no documents to upload.

We apply the rule that actually applies

Not a summary of the rule. The statute, the federal table and the threshold that lands on your household, in your state, this year.

You get your number — and where it came from

The answer comes with the primary source behind it and the date it was last checked, so you can hand it to a caseworker or a reporter.

We watch the rulebooks so you don’t have to

Congress, the IRS, CMS, USCIS, the Department of Labor and fifty state agencies all move on their own schedule. Our radar tracks the changes that move these tools.

When a rule changes, the pipeline is: confirm it against the primary source, update the structured dataset, regenerate the affected tools, move the last-verified date. Nothing reaches a page on a guess.

48h

target from a verified rule change to a live update

Per field

each data field carries its own source and date

Read the full methodology

Rules change. People need personal answers, not pamphlets.

Policy is the engine

Job loss, illness, immigration, a new baby, retirement — life's turning points are all governed by rules. When a rule changes, millions of people need a new personal answer overnight. That is the moment we build for.

Personal answers beat generic ones

AI can summarize any rule in a paragraph. What it cannot do is take your wage, your household size, your state — and return your number. Every tool we ship starts with your situation as the input.

We watch the rulebooks so you don't have to

Congress, the IRS, USCIS, the Department of Labor — our radar tracks rule changes full-time. When the rules move, our tools move, with a last-verified date on every data field.

One rule system, one dedicated site

We don't build mega-portals that cover everything shallowly. Each tool lives on its own focused site and goes deeper than any generalist — one rule system, verified end to end.

Why trust a small studio with policy data?

Because the standard is written down and applied to every tool — so you can hold us to it.

Primary sources or nothing

Every number traces to a statute, a Federal Register notice or a state agency document. If we cannot verify it, we do not publish it.

Show the math

Our calculators disclose the exact tables and formulas they use, so you can audit every result.

Bilingual by default

The people most affected by benefit rules are often the least served by English-only tools.

No accounts, no data harvesting

Tools run in your browser. We never ask for your SSN, medical records or a login.

Open data for journalists

Our state datasets are free to cite with attribution, so coverage carries verifiable numbers.

A last-verified date on every field

Policy changes silently. Our pages carry the date they were last checked against the source.