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Case Study

A compliance platform that replaced 40 spreadsheets

We built a multi-tenant compliance workflow platform for a German regulatory startup, taking it from spreadsheet-based manual review to a product serving 40+ enterprise customers.

Client
Regulatory SaaS startup
Industry
RegTech / B2B SaaS
Region
Germany, EU
Duration
8 weeks to MVP, ongoing
A compliance platform that replaced 40 spreadsheets — Regulatory SaaS startup

The challenge

A compliance consultancy was running client audits through a maze of shared spreadsheets and email threads. Each audit took two weeks of manual work, errors were common, and the model could not scale past the founders' own capacity. They had deep regulatory expertise but no engineering team.

What we did

Mapped the manual process first

We sat through three live audits before designing anything, documenting every decision point and exception the spreadsheets encoded implicitly.

Modelled the domain properly

Regulatory frameworks became versioned data rather than hardcoded logic, so new frameworks could be added without a release.

Built multi-tenancy in from day one

Row-level isolation and per-tenant audit trails were part of the initial schema, avoiding the painful retrofit most early SaaS products face.

Automated the reporting output

The deliverable clients actually pay for — a formatted audit report — is generated from platform data instead of assembled by hand.

The outcome

The platform became the company's entire commercial offering. They raised a seed round on the back of it, and we continue as their engineering function.

We came in with regulatory knowledge and a folder of spreadsheets. They turned it into a product we could actually sell.

— Founder & CEO, RegTech startup

Results

2 weeks → 2 days
Audit turnaround time
40+
Enterprise customers onboarded
8 weeks
Idea to first paying customer
99.95%
Platform uptime

Technology

NuxtNode.jsPostgreSQLAWSTerraform

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