See what stands between your product and the world.
Describe your product, software or service in plain words. Roadblock finds every certification, registration and deadline for each country you sell in, in order, with time and cost.
Every one of them, ahead of time.
Safety, EMC and radio, energy, batteries, cybersecurity and registration. Each comes with the law or standard behind it, how long it takes and what it costs.
Plan the route, then drive it.
Roadblock orders the work from today: what starts now, what waits for design freeze, and what you can run in parallel.
Launch with nothing left in the way.
Know the budget, the timeline and the go/no-go before you spend on tooling.
Analyze freePlain words in
No category trees. Describe it the way you would to a colleague, and fix anything we got wrong.
Rules, not guesses
A reviewed register of 320+ requirements across 130 hardware, software and service types decides what applies. The AI only reads your description.Matching only reads your description.
Sources you can check
Every requirement links to the law, regulator page or standard behind it. Free sources are monitored for changes daily.
A plan you can share
Shareable report links, and a PDF report on paid plans for investors, labs and your team.
Guides
- How to sell electrical and electronic products in Australia (RCM, EESS and ACMA)Australia
- CE marking for electronics: what the EU requires before you sellEuropean Union
- FCC rules for electronics: SDoC, FCC ID and importing into the USUnited States
- Cyber security laws for smart devices in Australia, the EU, the US and SingaporeAustralia, European Union, United States, Singapore
- EV charger compliance in Australia and New ZealandAustralia, New Zealand
- Launching an app or SaaS: privacy, consumer and accessibility rules in Australia, the US and EUAustralia, United States, European Union
- Importing products from China to sell in Australia: the compliance checklistAustralia
- How much does product certification cost, and how long does it take?Australia, New Zealand, United States, European Union
Questions
What is Roadblock?
Roadblock is a compliance planning tool for launching hardware, software and services. Describe what you’re launching in plain words and it lists every certification, registration, licence and legal requirement for Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the European Union, Singapore and the Gulf (UAE, Saudi Arabia and other GCC states), in order, with the source for each, how long it takes and what it costs.
Which countries does Roadblock cover?
Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the European Union, Singapore, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman. The UK, Canada, Japan and South Korea are next.
What kinds of products can it check?
Electrical and electronic products (including radio, IoT, batteries, EV chargers and appliances), toys, nursery, furniture, clothing, cosmetics, chemicals and other consumer goods; software such as SaaS, apps, marketplaces, fintech, health and AI; and services such as trades, care, hospitality and finance.
Is Roadblock free?
Yes, 10 analyses a month are free with full roadblocks, timeline, map and sources. Paid plans add more analyses, PDF reports and lab quote requests.
Does it replace a compliance consultant or test lab?
No. It’s a planning aid that shows what applies, in what order, and roughly what it costs, so you can budget and brief a lab or consultant. Testing and certification still happen at accredited labs and certifiers.
Where do the rules come from?
A reviewed register of more than 320 requirements, each linked to the law, regulator page or standard behind it. Free laws and regulator pages are checked for changes; paid standards are referenced by number and edition only.
Start with 10 free analyses a month
Upgrade when you need more, the PDF report or lab quotes.
Analyze a product
Describe what you’re launching in plain words: hardware, software or a service. Roadblock works out what it is, then maps it to the certifications, registrations and dates between you and the market.
Roadblock covers hardware, software and services launched in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the European Union, Singapore, the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the other GCC states. Add more about what it is and does, check the Hardware / Software / Service switch, or pick the type under “Fix something we got wrong”. We’ve logged it so we can add new types. See Coverage.
Roadblocks
Compliance timeline
Requirements
Numbers match the timeline. Each links to the governing document.
Where the roadblocks are
Hover or tap a region to see what stands between you and that market.
Get real quotes from accredited labs
On the Team plan we send your report to partner labs so they can quote on your actual product.
See the Team planPlain words in, a cited roadmap out
Most compliance research goes into working out which rules apply. Roadblock splits that job in two, so the part that needs judgement is checked by the part that needs precision.
You describe it
Write what you’re launching the way you would to a colleague, and pick Hardware, Software or Service. No forms or category trees.
AI reads itRoadblock reads it
An AI model matches itRoadblock matches its wording to one or more of 130 types and records the features that decide scope. For hardware: power source, battery, radios, network connections and special hazards.
Rules decide
Each type carries its standards, licences and sector rules. A reviewed register of requirements maps the type and features to obligations, costs, durations and dates. The AI never invents a requirement.Nothing is invented: every requirement comes from the register.
Where the rules come from
Free laws, regulations and regulator guidance are monitored daily. When a page changes, the change is summarised and queued for a person to review before any rule is updated. Paid standards are referenced by number, edition and scope with a link to buy them; we never reproduce their text.
Where the costs come from
Each cost shows its basis. Estimates are replaced by lab rate cards, published fees and real reported outcomes as they come in. Once three real outcomes exist for a step, the range shown is their middle half.
How the timeline is built
The timeline starts today. Registrations and design work start on day one, lab testing starts once the design is frozen (allowing for the stage you describe), and declarations follow the tests they depend on. Earliest launch is when the last critical item finishes at its shortest likely duration. Faded bar ends show how much longer each item could run.
What Roadblock checks today
Hardware, software and services launched in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the European Union, Singapore, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman (grouped as “Other GCC”). Hardware: electrical and electronic products, plus toys, nursery, furniture, clothing, cosmetics, chemicals, food contact, sport, building, plumbing, gas, pressure and vehicle parts. Software: SaaS, consumer and social apps, marketplaces, e-commerce, fintech, health, AI, edtech, games, media, cloud, adtech and gambling, covering privacy, consumer law, online safety, AI, financial licensing, cyber and accessibility. Services: trades, health and care, childcare, finance and legal, real estate, hospitality, retail, events, travel, transport, security and labour hire, covering occupational licences, employer duties, food, alcohol, worker screening and premises. Every description is matched to the types below, and the product’s features add radio, cyber, energy, battery, children’s, food contact, medical and other rules. This is the live register the analyzer uses.
Markets
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Types
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Each report names the exact standards, laws and regulator pages behind every step, with links.
Sources
Free laws and regulator pages are checked for changes; paid standards are referenced by number and edition only. A few examples:
The full list of sources, with when each was last checked, is available on the Individual and Team plans. See plans
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Not covered yet
Complete vehicles, food and drink, medicines and supplements, pet food, weapons, and markets outside the eight covered (Japan, South Korea, the UK and Canada are next). US state rules are covered where they commonly bite (California, New York City, state e-waste and packaging laws), not for every state. In the Gulf, the UAE and Saudi Arabia have their own rules; Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman share the GCC-wide rules (G-Mark, data protection) with national registration noted, and licences for services in those four are given at a general level.
Cheaper than one hour of a consultant
Prices in Australian dollars, including GST. Cancel any time from your account.
Free
- 10 analyses a month
- Full roadblocks, timeline, map and sources
- Shareable report links
- After 10 analyses, half of the critical roadblocks are hidden until next month
Individual
- Up to 30 analyses a month
- Every roadblock visible
- Downloadable PDF report
- Fix and re-run any interpretation
Team
- Unlimited analyses
- Downloadable PDF report
- Lab quote requests from accredited partner labs
- Add up to 10 colleagues to the plan
Questions
What counts as an analysis? Each new product description you analyze. Fixing the interpretation and re-running a report doesn’t count.
What happens after my allowance? You can keep analyzing, but half of the critical roadblocks in new reports are hidden until next month or until you upgrade. Upgrading unlocks them straight away, including on reports you already ran.
How do payments work? Payments are handled by Stripe. You can change plans, update your card or cancel from your account.
Privacy policy
Effective 27 October 2026
Roadblock (“we”, “us”) runs roadblock.dev from Australia. This policy explains what personal information we collect, why, who we share it with and what you can ask us to do with it. We handle personal information under the Australian Privacy Principles, and give visitors from the EU, UK and elsewhere the same rights described below.
What we collect
- Account details: your email address, optional name, and a scrambled (scrypt-hashed) version of your password. We never see or store your password itself.
- What you analyze: the product, software or service descriptions you type, the features we read from them, and the reports we produce. Don’t include trade secrets you aren’t comfortable storing with us.
- Lab quote requests: the name, email, company and product details you enter on a quote request.
- Billing: your plan and a Stripe customer reference. Card details go straight to Stripe; we never see or store them.
- Technical data: a salted, one-way hash of your IP address (used for usage limits and abuse prevention, not to identify you), server logs, and the cookies listed below.
Cookies
We use only cookies the site needs to work: rb_session keeps you signed in, rb_visitor counts free analyses for visitors without an account, and rb_plan remembers a chosen plan. No advertising or tracking cookies, and no third-party analytics.
Why we use it
- To run analyses, save your reports and show them to you and people you share links with.
- To apply plan limits, take payments and manage your account.
- To send lab quote requests you ask for, and service emails about your account.
- To keep the service secure, prevent abuse and fix problems.
- To improve the rules register. We may review descriptions to find gaps in coverage; we don’t sell them or use them for advertising.
Who we share it with
- Testing labs, only when you send a quote request: the labs you choose receive your contact details and product details, and you’re copied on those emails.
- Service providers that host and run the site for us: Render (hosting, Singapore), Neon (database, Singapore), Cloudflare (domain and email forwarding), Resend (sending email), and Stripe (payments). If we turn on AI interpretation of descriptions, the description text is also sent to Anthropic to be read; it isn’t used to train their models.
- Authorities, when the law requires it.
These providers may store data outside Australia, including in Singapore, the United States and Japan. We choose providers with security and privacy commitments equivalent to the Australian Privacy Principles.
Shared report links
Each report has a hard-to-guess link. Anyone you give the link to can open the report, so share it with care. You can delete a report from your account at any time.
How long we keep it
We keep your account and reports while your account is open. Reports you delete are removed straight away, except a minimal record where a lab quote was requested. When you close your account we delete your personal information within 30 days, apart from what we must keep for tax and legal reasons (billing records are kept for 7 years under Australian law). Analyses run without an account are kept so their share links keep working; email us the link and we’ll delete it.
Security
Connections are encrypted (HTTPS), passwords are hashed, IP addresses are hashed, and database access is restricted. No system is perfectly secure; if a breach is likely to cause you serious harm we’ll tell you and the regulator as the law requires.
Your rights
You can ask to see, correct, export or delete your personal information, or object to how we use it. Email hello@roadblock.dev from your account’s email address and we’ll reply within 30 days. If you’re unhappy with our response you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au) or your local data protection authority.
Changes
If we make a significant change we’ll update the date above and tell account holders by email before it takes effect.
Terms of use
Effective 27 October 2026
These terms apply when you use roadblock.dev (the “service”), run by Roadblock in Australia. By using the service or creating an account you agree to them. If you use it for a company, you agree on its behalf.
1. What Roadblock is, and isn’t
Roadblock is a planning aid. It reads your description, matches it to product types and applies a register of requirements to estimate the compliance work, costs and time involved. It is not legal, regulatory, engineering or certification advice, and it doesn’t replace a lawyer, a compliance consultant, a test lab or a certification body.
Results depend on your description and on our register, which may be incomplete, out of date or wrong for your exact product. Costs and durations are estimates. Before you launch, confirm requirements with the relevant regulator or a qualified professional.
2. Your account
Give accurate details, keep your password private and tell us if you think your account has been misused. You’re responsible for what happens under your account. You must be at least 18, or have a parent or guardian agree to these terms.
3. Acceptable use
You must not:
- scrape, crawl, bulk-download or systematically extract reports, coverage data, the rules register or other content, by automated means or by hand;
- use the service or its output to build, train or populate a competing product, database or AI model;
- get around plan limits, rate limits or access controls, including by creating multiple accounts or sharing one paid account outside its plan;
- reverse-engineer the service, probe it for vulnerabilities without our written permission, or interfere with how it runs;
- submit unlawful content or content you don’t have the right to share, or use quote requests to spam labs.
We may suspend or close accounts that break these rules.
4. Content and intellectual property
You own the descriptions you submit and may use your reports however you like, including sharing them with your team, investors and labs. You give us a licence to store and process your descriptions to run and improve the service.
The service, its software, design, rules register, cost data and compilation of sources belong to us and are protected by copyright and database rights. Laws and regulations we link to belong to their publishers. Standards are referenced by number and title only and must be bought from their publishers.
5. Plans and payment
Paid plans are billed monthly in advance in Australian dollars, including GST, through Stripe, and renew automatically until you cancel. You can cancel from your account at any time; you keep access until the end of the period you’ve paid for. We’ll give at least 30 days’ notice of any price change. Refunds are covered by our refund policy.
6. Lab quotes
When you request quotes, we pass your request to independent labs. Labs set their own prices and terms, and any contract for testing is between you and the lab. We aren’t responsible for a lab’s work, response time or quote.
7. Australian Consumer Law
Our services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded under the Australian Consumer Law. Nothing in these terms limits those rights or any other rights you have that can’t lawfully be excluded.
8. Limits on our liability
To the extent the law allows: the service is provided “as is”; we aren’t liable for indirect or consequential loss, lost profits, missed launches, failed certification, recalls or penalties arising from relying on results; and our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the claim. Where the Australian Consumer Law lets us limit liability for a failure to meet a guarantee, our liability is limited to supplying the service again or paying the cost of having it supplied again.
9. Ending
You can stop using the service and close your account at any time. We may change, suspend or stop the service, giving reasonable notice where we can, and will refund any prepaid amount for a period we no longer provide.
10. General
We may update these terms and will tell account holders of material changes at least 14 days before they apply. These terms are governed by the laws of New South Wales, Australia, and the courts there have jurisdiction. Questions: hello@roadblock.dev.
Refund policy
Effective 27 October 2026
Cancelling
Paid plans are monthly. Cancel any time from your account; you won’t be charged again and you keep your plan until the end of the month you’ve paid for. We don’t charge cancellation fees.
When we refund
- First payment: if a paid plan isn’t right for you, email us within 7 days of your first payment and we’ll refund it in full.
- Billing mistakes: double charges, charges after you cancelled, or charges at the wrong price are refunded in full.
- Service problems: if the service is unavailable for a long period or fails to do what we said it would, we’ll refund or credit the affected period.
- Australian Consumer Law: you’re always entitled to a remedy for a major failure, whatever this policy says.
Otherwise we don’t refund part-months after a renewal, and analyses already run aren’t refundable. Results being different from what you hoped isn’t a fault, since Roadblock is a planning aid, but tell us if you think something is wrong and we’ll look into it.
How to ask
Email hello@roadblock.dev from your account’s email address with the date of the charge. We reply within 5 business days. Approved refunds go back to the original card through Stripe and usually appear within 5–10 business days.
Lab testing and certification fees are paid to the labs, not to us, so ask the lab about refunds for those.
Get in touch
Email hello@roadblock.dev for questions, account and privacy requests, refunds, or to report a missing or outdated rule. We usually reply within 2 business days.
Testing labs
Labs that want to receive quote requests, or update the standards they quote on, can email quotes@roadblock.dev.
Website owners
Our source checker identifies itself as RoadblockSourceWatcher. It reads public law and regulator pages at most once a day, and standard store pages only when a check is run. To ask us to slow down or stop, email hello@roadblock.dev.