Legal Content Drift Scanner
Detect when live no longer matches the approved version.
The drift scanner crawls publicly visible legal texts, compares them with the version approved in TermShelf and surfaces divergence as actionable findings — per site, language and market.
What is the Legal Content Drift Scanner?
- Legal Content Drift Scanner
- The Legal Content Drift Scanner is TermShelf's live reconciliation function. It checks the publicly reachable legal texts of a customer site against the approved version and creates a drift finding on divergence. The check is operational and technical — it does not assess the legal correctness of any content.
What teams use the scanner for
Check after a relaunch
Does the new CMS still link to an old privacy page? Reconciliation surfaces stale versions left behind after a website relaunch.
Reconcile multilingual versions
The German version is current, the English one lagged behind — drift is reported per language individually.
Control footers and microsites
Hand-curated footers, landing pages and microsites drift easily. The scanner finds copies that no longer match the source.
Uncover caching effects
Incorrectly cached pages show an old version even though new content was published long ago. The live check makes the gap visible.
Monitor multi-site portfolios
Continuously verify across multiple brands and domains that every site carries exactly its approved version.
How TermShelf helps
Drift originates at publishing and maintenance time, not when you go looking. The scanner turns that invisible gap into a traceable review process.
Crawl of public customer sites
TermShelf fetches the publicly visible legal-text pages and reads the version actually delivered live.
Comparison with the approved version
The live version is compared against the immutable, approved snapshot — the source of truth in TermShelf.
Findings per site, language and market
Divergence is reported granularly instead of a vague "outdated somewhere."
Open, assign and triage findings
Every finding is an actionable item with an owner and status — drift becomes a task, not a chance discovery.
What the drift scanner does not do
- It does not assess legal correctness and is not a substitute for legal advice.
- It does not change or publish anything automatically — review stays with the user.
- It is not a cookie/consent scanner and does not check tracking consent.
- It does not guarantee catching every conceivable divergence — it covers operational, visible drift.
Frequently asked questions
- How does the scanner detect outdated legal texts on a website?
- It crawls the publicly visible legal-text pages, reads the version delivered live and compares it with the version approved in TermShelf. On divergence it creates a drift finding per site, language and market.
- Does the scanner judge whether a legal text is legally correct?
- No. The check is operational and technical: it shows whether the live version matches the approved one. The legal assessment of the content remains the task of qualified counsel.
Make drift visible before anyone else notices.
Continuously reconcile publicly visible legal texts with your approved version.