Not a directory listing, and not a job. A trained associate network of experienced Data Protection Officers and paralegals who take on the parts of a request that actually need professional judgement — with the request already scoped, verified and prepared before it reaches you.
And because we're at the founding stage, the pricing parameters, the stage definitions and the way work is handed over are being set with the first group, not presented to them. If you've ever wanted a say in how this work gets priced and standardised, this is the point at which that's possible.
The platform and portals are built and working. The network is not — you would be among the first. We'd rather say that plainly than imply traction we don't have, because you'd see through it in the first conversation anyway.
Takes a few minutes. We ask for indicative per-stage rates because that's the conversation we're actually trying to have.
Which is not primarily the rate. Being listed somewhere is not a proposition — so here is what the network is actually for, starting with the two things you're most likely to be checking for.
The hardest part of independent practice is finding the clients, not doing the work. Requests arrive already scoped, verified and prepared to a review-ready standard. You do the professional judgement, not the business development.
No exclusivity. No non-compete on your existing practice. No requirement to route your own work through us. Your practice stays entirely yours — we're saying this early because it's the first thing worth checking.
The platform prepares; you decide. Scoping, exemptions and the reasoning recorded against each one are yours, and attributed to you. Redactions are proposed for your review, never applied on your behalf.
Access to, and training on, the technology behind the platform — including the parts most independents can't justify licensing on their own. Technology-agnostic, so it's the current best tool rather than whatever we happen to be tied to.
Per stage, within parameters agreed with the founding group, so the rate reflects your judgement rather than a card handed down to you. Quotes for the same nominal task currently range from £100 to several thousand — defining the stage is what makes those comparable at all.
Scoping, professional review, and the release decision — the judgement stages. Not the collation, not the de-duplication, not chasing departments for files. Those are the platform's job, and they're the reason the judgement work arrives clean.
Training on current tooling is worth something in its own right to an independent, and it's yours to take into the rest of your practice. Nothing about it is locked to the work you do with us.
“The way this work gets done is changing, and the practitioners who are fluent in the tooling will be the ones setting the standard for how it's done properly — rather than competing with it on price.”
That's the honest case for being early, and it's the reason we're recruiting a founding group rather than filling a rota. Command the technology, don't be commoditised by it.Stated as plainly as the offer, because vague partnership language is its own warning sign. There are five things, and none of them touch your own practice.
Quotes for “a DSAR” currently range from £100 to several thousand — and that isn't inconsistent pricing, it's different units of work being quoted. So we've defined the unit. Here are the seven stages of a request, and which of them a network associate is paid for.
No pitching, no intake calls, no scoping a job before you know whether you'll get it.
With the founding group, in the open, before there's a rate card to argue with.
This is the part we actually need. We're asking every practitioner the same questions about the same defined units of work, so that for the first time the answers are comparable — and so the parameters get set from real numbers rather than a guess. Nothing here commits you to anything.