In practice, GDPR compliance solutions is bought by a business processing personal data of people in the EU at the moments a program is most anxious and least able to say what it needs: before a license, before an examination, after a finding. The seller's value is judgement about what the regulator expects; the buyer's leverage is knowing the program in numbers first, because an engagement scoped from the register is smaller, cheaper and better than one scoped from a brochure. This page walks what to bring to GDPR compliance solutions, what the engagement should change, what must come back at the end, and where the free sheets on this site work the program's own figures, with no account, so the first meeting starts from them.
What to bring
The register's numbers: obligations, controls per obligation, evidence items per control, minutes per item, reviewers and their hours. The obligations register sheet on this site returns the items, the hours and the months to a full attestation. For a business processing personal data of people in the EU the record behind those numbers is the record of processing, the processor agreements, the lawful bases and the requests handled; bring it as a count, not a folder. A provider of GDPR compliance solutions who can read the sheet and say which obligations are over-evidenced and which are bare has found the engagement's value in the first hour.
What the engagement should change
The count of obligations actually owed, the controls that satisfy several at once, the evidence each control needs and no more, the audit days per year, the gap rate and the hours per gap. Each is an input to a sheet on this site, so the before and after of the engagement is a pair of worked sheets rather than a slide. For GDPR the sheet to start with is the GDPR data-mapping sheet. Ask for the before and after in that form; a provider who promises maturity rather than numbers is promising a feeling.
Which parts of the bundle you already own
Before comparing bundles, list what exists. Most organizations already hold some form of asset inventory, an access review, a contract register and a set of policies, and those are three or four of the line items in every proposal. The parts genuinely missing are usually the record of processing activities, the assessment paperwork and a repeatable way to answer a subject request. Pricing a bundle against that list rather than against the brochure is what turns a large number into a small one, and it is the same exercise the obligations register sheet on this site puts a figure on.
What must come back
The register, in a form the program keeps updating without the provider: obligations, controls, evidence templates, an audit plan the program can run itself next year, and the attestations with who signed them. A deliverable that lives only in the provider's portal is a subscription to the provider. The guide this page supports covers scoping regulatory compliance consulting from the register in detail. Attestvio Pro keeps the register under the client's own name and exports it; the sheets stay free.
GDPR software solutions are bundles, so unbundle them
Solutions is the vendor's word for bundles of software, onboarding and support priced together, and a small business comparing them should ask for the three prices separately from each vendor. Onboarding for a program of 60 obligations is a day; support for two reviewers is an email address. The register sheet on this site sizes the program so each bundle can be priced against it rather than against a template.
Questions people ask about GDPR compliance solutions
What does GDPR compliance solutions cost?
Providers quote after scoping and this site publishes no figure for them. The number that matters is the fee against the reviewer hours and audit days the engagement removes, which the free sheets on this site work from your own program.
How do I scope GDPR compliance solutions?
From the register: obligations, controls, evidence items, reviewer hours and the months to attestation, worked on the free obligations register sheet and brought to the first meeting.
Does Attestvio provide GDPR compliance solutions?
No. Attestvio is software that keeps the register, evidence and attestations and works the arithmetic; it gives no view on what a regulation requires. The sheets make any provider's engagement scoped and checkable.