What Kehai actually does
Kehai (気配) is the Japanese word for a sensed sign that something is about to happen - the shift in the air before it rains. It's almost a literal description of regulatory horizon-scanning.
Tax rules change constantly - in every country you sell to, often without warning. Most of those changes have nothing to do with your business. A few of them really matter, and they're buried in 60-page PDFs written by people who get paid by the syllable.
Kehai watches for those changes and tells you the ones that actually affect your business - and what to do about each one. That's it. It's the difference between “here are 200 tax updates this month, good luck” and “here are the 3 that touch you, here's why, and here's who should handle them.”
Think of it as a smoke alarm, not a library. A library makes you go find the thing and read it. A smoke alarm only goes off when something actually needs your attention - and tells you where.
Who it's for
Whether you have a tax team or you are the tax team, this is built for you. It works for the people who own the business and the people who own compliance:
Founders & business owners
You're already doing six jobs - you don't need to become a VAT expert too. You need to know, in one line, when a rule change actually lands on you and what to do about it. Think of Kehai as the person on your team who reads the tax news so you never have to.
CFOs, finance leads & accountants
You're accountable for compliance across more countries than anyone can comfortably track. Instead of stitching together newsletters, adviser emails and half-remembered deadlines, you get one board: what changed, whether it hits your business, who owns it, and by when - ready to delegate.
Lean teams with no in-house tax
No tax department? This is your safety net. It watches the official sources in every market you touch and only taps you on the shoulder when something genuinely matters - so nothing slips through the cracks while you're busy running the business.
Teams that already have tax experts
Got specialists in-house? Even better. Kehai takes the manual monitoring off their plate - scanning dozens of jurisdictions, cutting the noise and keeping the audit trail - so your experts spend their time on judgement calls, not on refreshing government websites. It's the change-control operating system for the work they already do.
How it works, in three steps
1. You tell it about your business - once
Where you sell, what you sell, how you invoice. Takes a few minutes. That's the whole setup.
2. It watches the official sources for you
Tax authorities, finance ministries, courts - in every country you're exposed to. It reads the boring stuff so you don't have to.
3. It hands you a short, honest list
What changed, whether it actually hits you, who should own it, by when - with a link to the official source so you can check the receipts.
A few real situations
The SaaS founder
You sell software subscriptions into Germany, France and the UAE. Each one keeps tweaking its VAT and e-invoicing rules. You don't have a tax team - you have a to-do list that's already on fire. The tracker quietly flags the two changes this quarter that affect you, and ignores the forty that don't.
The finance lead
You own compliance for a business selling across eight countries. Your inbox has six newsletters, four adviser PDFs and zero time. Instead of reading all of it, you open one board: high-impact items at the top, each with an owner and a deadline you can actually delegate.
The 'wait, does this affect us?' moment
Someone forwards you a scary headline about a new invoicing law. Instead of falling down a 2-hour Google hole, you check the tracker - it already logged it, scored whether it touches your setup, and linked the official source.
What it deliberately doesn't do
It's a heads-up tool, not your accountant. It points you at what changed and links the official source - it doesn't file your returns or sign off on a legal position. Every item is a starting point you (or your adviser) confirm before acting. We're upfront about exactly how it works and where the limits are on the methodology page.
A worked example: France's e-invoicing mandate
Want to see all this on a real change that's already coming? France is rewriting how every business invoice works - here's the plain-English version of what it means, and exactly how the tracker keeps you ahead of it.
Read the France e-invoicing guide →See it on your business
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