About

The compliance intelligence layer semiconductor teams were missing.

Export control compliance in the semiconductor industry has a monitoring problem. Six regulatory bodies. Dozens of updates per month. PDFs in legal notice format, published without warning, effective the same day. A single missed Entity List addition can trigger a $300,000 civil penalty per violation.

Embargo was built to solve that problem — not with another compliance checklist, but with an automated intelligence layer that watches every relevant source, structures what it finds, and delivers it to your team in plain English before your competitors find out.

What we monitor

United States
US BIS
Entity List & CCL updates
United States
Federal Register
EAR rules & BIS notices
European Union
EU Official Journal
Dual-use regulation changes
United Kingdom
UK ECJU
Export control notices & licences
Netherlands
Dutch MOCIT
Advanced lithography controls
Japan
Japan METI
FEFTA semiconductor equipment rules

How we think about the product

Trust is the product.

If the data is wrong, the product fails. We pull directly from primary government sources — the Federal Register API, the EU Official Journal, official government content APIs — not from third-party aggregators with unspecified lag times. Every alert includes a link to the original document.

Speed is the value proposition.

An alert four hours before your compliance team would have found it manually is worth more than a perfect summary delivered three days later. We optimise for latency first, then for clarity.

Clarity beats comprehensiveness.

One actionable insight is worth more than ten ambiguous ones. We use AI summarisation to translate dense regulatory language into plain-English action items — but we always show you the source text alongside the summary.

B2B-first, enterprise-grade.

This product is used by export control managers and trade compliance counsel at semiconductor companies with real regulatory accountability. Every design decision reflects that. No consumer shortcuts.

Company
Legal name
Pintu Holdings Ltd
Trading as
Embargo
Jurisdiction
England & Wales

Ready to stop monitoring manually?

Start a 14-day free trial. No setup required. Your first alerts will arrive within hours of the next regulatory update.