For UK businesses of 10 to 100 people
Know what could stop you trading.
You carry most of the same legal duties as a company ten times your size, without the compliance department. This puts them on one screen: what applies to you, what it costs if it goes wrong, who owns it, what to do next, and which ones reach you personally.
Four minutes to read. No sign-up, and nothing collected.
The problem is not that the information is hidden
It is free and abundant. What does not exist is the list: what applies to this business, who owns each item, what evidence exists, and what happens if it slips. So it lives in someone's head, in five different folders, or nowhere.
£36bn
The annual cost of regulatory compliance to UK small firms, alongside 379 million hours.
58%
Of businesses find health and safety the hardest area to comply with. Employment law ties with it.
41%
Name compliance risk as the main reason they buy software for this, ahead of time savings at 38 percent.
29%
Of UK risk experts rank changes in legislation and regulation a top business risk, higher than the global average.
What it does
Six things, each of which exists because a register that only lists duties is a filing cabinet, not a decision tool.
Priced both ways, in pounds
Every duty carries what it costs if it goes wrong next to what it costs to put right. "Unlimited fine" is legally accurate and useless for planning. Usually the second number is far smaller than anyone expects, which is what makes the decision easy.
The ones that reach you personally
A separate view for the duties where a director can be prosecuted or disqualified, not just the company fined. Most registers never separate these out, and it is the thing directors actually want to know.
Ordered by what is holding things up
Not just by severity. If one unstarted item has seventeen others stuck behind it, that goes first, even though something else looks more frightening. Severity alone sends you to the wrong job.
Evidence, not intention
A policy nobody has read counts for half. Nothing in place counts for nothing. Every status is self-declared by a named person on a named date and says so, so the score is one you could defend rather than one that flatters you.
What is coming, before it lands
A rolling view of changes ahead, each marked confirmed, announced or still being watched. Preparing for something in October is cheap. Discovering it in October is not.
Answers for the questionnaires you get sent
The supplier assurance questions larger customers and public bodies send, answerable in one place and reusable. Rebuilding those answers from scratch every time is where the days go.
The part nobody puts on a dashboard
Company fines are survivable. The duties where a director is prosecuted or disqualified personally are a different conversation, and most compliance tools never separate them out. This one gives them their own screen, because it is the first thing a director wants to know and the last thing anyone volunteers.
A director can be prosecuted where an offence was committed with their consent, connivance or neglect. Creating the risk is enough, nobody has to be hurt.
Conviction for a health and safety offence normally brings disqualification with it. Magistrates can impose up to five years, higher courts up to fifteen.
The Crown Court can impose an unlimited fine or up to two years. Custodial sentencing of directors has risen since the 2016 sentencing guidelines.
Drawn from published guidance on directors' duties and health and safety sentencing. General information about the law, not advice about your business.
Is this for you?
It is built for a specific size and shape of business. It is not built for everyone, and saying so up front saves everybody’s time.
A good fit if
- You employ roughly 10 to 100 people, so the thresholds that start at five employees all apply to you
- Nobody in the building has compliance in their job title
- Customers or public bodies send you security and assurance questionnaires
- You have more than one site, vehicles, subcontractors or people working unsupervised
- A director wants to know what reaches them personally
Probably not, if
- You are a sole trader or under five employees. Most of the duties that make this worth having do not bite yet
- You already employ a compliance manager and run a system they like
- You are in a heavily licensed sector such as care or financial services, where a specialist tool will serve you better
- You want a document library. There are good ones, some of them free with an FSB membership or your insurance
It is not legal advice and it never gives a legal opinion. It measures whether evidence exists, which is a different and more honest question than whether you are compliant.
It does not mark its own homework. Nothing can be closed from the top. A status moves when the named owner produces the evidence.
It is an early build shown as a working demonstration, with invented data. There is no long contract, because there is nothing to lock you into yet. If that matters to you, it is worth knowing that lock-in is the loudest complaint customers make about the established players in this market.
Have a look before you decide anything
The sample takes a minute. If it looks useful, the full working demonstration is a conversation away, and so is the question of whether something like it would suit your business.
Figures in the sample are invented for demonstration. The statistics on this page are drawn from published research by the Federation of Small Businesses, the Department for Business and Trade and the Allianz Risk Barometer, and from published guidance on directors' duties. They describe the market, not your business. Nothing here has been reviewed by a solicitor and nothing on this page or in the sample is legal advice.