For compliance officers
The Briefing Desk
A daily FDA enforcement briefing built for the morning habit FDAnews used to serve — before it shut down in August 2025 and left its paying digest subscribers with nowhere to go.
What’s different from the free Argus HQ digest
- 6am ET delivery, every business day — not a weekly roundup. The free digest and Standard tier stay useful; Briefing Desk is built for the person whose first act of the day is reading a compliance brief.
- Prior-24h enforcement actions, curated — warning letters, recalls, approvals, and Form 483 inspection citations from the last day, not a raw feed dump.
- Escalation watch — when a company on your watchlist shows up in a new action, we tell you what already happened and how it compares to that company’s own recent base rate. We do not forecast what a company will do next — that is not a claim Argus HQ makes.
- Industry playbooks — short, practical context on what a given action type typically means procedurally (e.g. what a Warning Letter response deadline looks like), not legal advice.
- Custom watchlist, 10 companies — versus 3 on the free tier.
- SMS alerts on Class I recalls touching your watchlist — the single action type with the shortest real-world response window.
- Unlimited CSV export and priority support.
- Weekly executive-summary PDF, every Friday — a one-page, print-ready recap of the week’s enforcement activity (letter counts by severity, top issuing offices, top entities, and your matched letters), formatted for forwarding to compliance leadership or filing in a remediation record.
| Plan feature | Free | Standard | Analyst — $199/mo | Team — $399/mo |
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| Delivery time | Weekly | Daily (6am ET) | Daily (6am ET), Bloomberg-shape | Daily (6am ET), Bloomberg-shape |
| Watchlist size | 3 companies | Unlimited | 10 companies | 10 companies, shared |
| Escalation watch | — | — | Descriptive base rates on watchlist | Descriptive base rates on watchlist |
| Industry playbooks | — | — | Included | Included |
| SMS on Class I recalls | — | — | Yes | Yes |
| CSV export | — | Yes | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Seats | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Support | Community | Priority email | Priority support | Priority support |
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