Most compliance software
stores your documents.
X3 SOP understands them.
A binder full of policies is dead text. X3 SOP writes every clause against the verified text of the CFR, tags it to the exact section that authorizes it, and links it to the training, forms and checklists that depend on it.
Change one clause. See everything it touches — before you publish.
Nobody gets fined for a bad document.
They get fined for what the document forgot.
Your drug & alcohol policy cites a testing rate. Your training module teaches that rate. Your quiz asks about it. Your audit checklist verifies it. When the rate changes, most carriers update one of those four — and find out which three they missed during an audit.
Documents don't know each other
A Word file has no idea a training deck quotes it. Change one, the other silently rots.
Nobody knows which rule authorizes what
Ask why a clause exists and you get a shrug. An auditor asks the same question with a citation in hand.
Dead regulations live forever
§391.27 was removed years ago. It is still sitting in thousands of carrier SOPs today, quoted as law.
Every sentence is a knowledge object
Take one line from a real SOP: "Drivers shall report all DOT recordable accidents immediately." X3 SOP doesn't store that as text. It stores what it means, what authorizes it, and what depends on it.
The Clause Genome
Every other tool stores your policy as flat text. X3 SOP stores each clause as a living object — it knows the regulation that authorizes it, how risky it is, and every training module, quiz and form that depends on it. That structure is what lets the system reason instead of search — and it is why nothing else can trace a change the way this can.
The Document Hospital
While you sleep, X3 SOP re-reads your entire library and scores its health. It flags unresolved open questions, clauses with no regulatory authority, and citations to sections that no longer exist. When the score drops below 70, it escalates — before an auditor finds it first.
It reads what you already published. It does not yet watch the Federal Register for you — when we build that, we'll say so here.
One clause. Every asset it should produce.
Approve one clause and the Asset Factory spins it into the five materials your people actually use — each carrying the same citation and the same [CONFIRM] markers as the source. You approve every asset; nothing publishes itself.
A teachable lesson on the rule, in language a new hire can actually follow.
Scored questions that prove the driver understood — your training record.
The field version — what to verify, in order, so nothing gets skipped.
A short, ready-to-read safety briefing for the yard or the tailgate.
The signature page proving each employee received and accepted it.
Five specialists,
one document
Every X3 product runs on the same brain, the same corpus, and the same citation guardrail. X3 SOP is the part of it that writes.
Four steps. You approve every one.
From a blank prompt to a cited, audit-ready document — nothing publishes without your sign-off.
Tell it what you need
A driver qualification SOP. A hazmat security plan. A 200-page operations manual. Pick the document and the parts of the CFR that govern it.
It writes, cited
Every requirement carries its section. Where the rule depends on facts only you have, it leaves a [CONFIRM] marker instead of guessing.
You answer the open questions
The Open Questions view lists every marker. Downloads unlock when the last one is answered — so you never ship a document with a hole in it.
It keeps watching
The nightly sweep re-reads the library, scores its health, and tells you what rotted. Ask it what a change touches, and it traces the whole chain.
Published, because nobody else does
Every competitor makes you call a salesperson. Here are the numbers. Charged up front, cancel any time — no free trial, because the first document is the whole product.
One safety manager, the core documents.
- 5 documents / month, included
- Grounded authoring, every clause cited
- Real .docx & .pdf export
- Open Questions gate
A library that stays alive after you write it.
- 25 documents / month, included
- Clause Genome — what authorizes each line
- Nightly Document Hospital
- Asset Factory — 15 per document
A real safety department, and a real library.
- 100 documents / month, included
- Impact tracing — what does this change touch?
- Reasoning layer + version history
- Knowledge Feed to sibling X3 products
Just need one document?
Buy it outright — no subscription. You get a good document. What you don't get is the part that matters six months later: the nightly sweep that tells you when a rule moved underneath it.
One SOP or policy up to 50 pages — authored and cited.
A longer SOP, plan, or manual over 50 pages — authored and cited.
A 500-page manual is scoped individually. It is weeks of work for a consultant and a serious engagement for us — so we quote it rather than list it. Review engagement options →
Straight answers
Does it watch for regulation changes and update my documents automatically?
Not yet, and we won't say otherwise. Today you tell X3 SOP what changed — a rule, a new terminal, a new hazmat lane — and it traces every clause and document affected, then drafts the fix for your approval. The nightly sweep independently re-reads your library and flags rot, including citations to sections that no longer exist. Automatic detection of new Federal Register activity is on the roadmap. When it ships, this answer changes.
Where does the regulatory text come from?
The official eCFR. X3 keeps a verified corpus of Title 49 — 36 parts — and every quoted requirement is checked against it. If a section isn't in the verified corpus, the system says so rather than paraphrasing from memory. It will not quote §391.27, because §391.27 was removed and is [Reserved].
What is a [CONFIRM] marker?
A place where the regulation depends on a fact only you have — your testing pool size, who your DER is, which terminals store hazmat. Rather than inventing an answer that reads well and audits badly, X3 SOP marks it and refuses to release the download until you have answered. Every open question, in one list.
Is this legal advice?
No. X3 SOP is compliance assistance. It is not a law firm and is not affiliated with FMCSA, PHMSA, CARB or USDOT. The motor carrier is always responsible for the accuracy of its own compliance program.
Why subscribe if I can buy a document for $99?
Because the $99 buys a document, and the subscription buys a library. Documents are included in every plan — 5, 25 or 100 a month, no per-job charge. What you're really paying monthly for is the part no competitor sells: the Clause Genome that knows which regulation authorizes each line, and the nightly Hospital that re-reads everything you've published and tells you what rotted. A one-off document is correct the day you buy it. A library stays correct.
Do I get a free trial?
No — and that is deliberate. The first document is the entire product; a trial would just be the product. You are charged up front for a document you keep — and because the first document is the whole product, you can judge the quality before you ever commit to a subscription.
Stop storing documents.
Start owning what's in them.
X3 SOP is even stronger inside X3 Compass
X3 SOP is one of 18+ FMCSA compliance tools built into X3 Compass — your all-in-one virtual safety director. One login runs your entire safety department from a single dashboard, with one shared driver & vehicle record across every tool.
One login, every tool
DataQ, CSA, DQ files, drug & alcohol, hazmat, permits and more — no juggling separate logins or vendors.
One driver & vehicle record
Every tool reads the same fleet data, so a driver or truck is entered once and shared everywhere.
One safety picture
See your whole fleet's compliance, scores and risk in a single command center — not ten dashboards.
One subscription for the platform. Pass-through items — MVR & background pulls, state & permit fees, and optional continuous monitoring — are billed at cost on top.
Ready to get compliant — without the guesswork
See where your enforcement risk is heading — and change the behavior that creates it, before it costs you at the scale, at renewal, and in the next audit.