Compliance Scanning

Compliance Scanning

BarGuard uses AI to analyze your web pages against state bar advertising rules. Here's how the scanning process works.

How a scan runs

When you trigger a scan (manually or via schedule), BarGuard follows these steps:

1. Scrape — Your page content is fetched with full JavaScript rendering to capture dynamically loaded content
2. Change detection — The page content is compared against previous scans. If nothing has changed, the scan skips re-analysis (saving credits and time)
3. AI Analysis — Changed pages are sent to the AI engine along with the applicable bar advertising rules for each jurisdiction
4. Violation detection — The AI identifies potential violations, assigning each a type, severity, evidence quote, rule citation, and remediation guidance
5. Scoring — A compliance score (0-100) is calculated based on the violations found
6. Reporting — Results are saved and a shareable report is generated

Verification mode

For pages that have been scanned before, BarGuard uses a special verification mode that:

• Checks whether previously detected violations are still present or have been fixed
• Identifies genuinely new violations
• Tracks occurrence count — how many consecutive scans a violation has persisted
• Automatically marks fixed violations as auto-resolved
• Detects regressions — when a previously resolved violation reappears

Triggering scans

Credit consumption

Each scan consumes credits based on the number of URLs multiplied by the number of jurisdictions:

Credits used = URLs scanned x jurisdictions per URL

For example, scanning 5 pages against 2 jurisdictions each uses 10 credits.

Violation types

Severity levels

Violations are classified into four severity levels:

• Critical — Serious violations requiring immediate attention
• High — Important issues that should be addressed promptly
• Medium — Moderate concerns to resolve during regular review
• Low — Minor suggestions for improving compliance