GDPR engineering services for UK SaaS and product teams. DSAR runbook plus automation, right to erasure at the schema, data residency, ROPA, DPIA, cookie and consent. We turn GDPR from a paperwork problem into an engineered system your DPO signs and your acquirer’s diligence team walks through without flinching.
GDPR isn’t a Confluence page you write once. It’s a DSAR that lands on a Friday, a right-to-erasure request that has to reach every table, a sub-processor list that has to be current. We build those as code, not policy.
She signed us for GDPR engineering services after six months of in-house attempt. That attempt was two engineers part-time, no observability, no audit log, and a runbook nobody had opened since the offsite. The DSAR backlog was six weeks deep and growing.
Then the acquirer’s CTO walked the codebase pre-LOI. He found no audit log of who touched what data, right-to-erasure that hit one table out of nine, and a sub-processor list last updated in 2023. His verdict: rip and replace, or a 25% diligence haircut. The board call was not pleasant.
We rebuilt over fourteen weeks. Two seniors paired daily. ADRs documented same day. Evidence pipeline wired on day one. DSAR runbook automated, erasure honoured at the schema. The acquirer’s CTO walked the same surface, signed retention, and the deal closed at ask. This page is for the founder who decided compliance is a build problem, not a paperwork problem.
The cost of designing for DSAR, erasure, and residency in week one is roughly a fortnight of architecture work. The cost of retrofitting it after an ICO request or a diligence flag is six to nine months of senior engineering. Open any row.
A subject access request fires a workflow, not a fire drill. We collect every record across every table and sub-processor, redact third-party data, and produce the export. The 30-day deadline becomes a button, not a backlog.
Erasure that reaches every table, every backup policy, every downstream sub-processor, not just the one row the founder remembers. Hard-delete or anonymise per field, with a record of what was erased and when, so the request is defensible.
UK and EU customer data stays where the contract says. Region-pinned storage, Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers, a documented data map. Your enterprise prospect asks where the data lives and you answer in one diagram.
A Record of Processing Activities that stays current because it’s wired to your infrastructure, not a spreadsheet. Sub-processor list versioned, change-logged, and ready for the next vendor security review.
A Data Protection Impact Assessment template your team fills for each new feature, plus an append-only audit log on every mutation: actor, tenant, IP, timestamp. Who touched what data, when, becomes a query, not a guess.
Consent captured before the tag fires, stored with proof, and respected downstream. TCF v2.2 where the ad stack needs it. Withdrawal as easy as granting. The cookie banner stops being a liability nobody owns.
Every team that emails us for GDPR engineering services is fighting one of these eight things. Each one is brutal to fix once the codebase is live and data is flowing. Each one is a single architectural decision made on day one of our build.
“Our DSAR backlog is six weeks deep and growing. Each one is an engineer running queries by hand.”
DSAR runbook with cross-table collection. One request fans out across every table and sub-processor, redacts third-party data, and produces the export. The 30-day deadline goes from a backlog to a button.
“We delete the user row and assume it’s gone. It’s still in events, logs, exports, and two vendors.”
Right to erasure at the schema. We map every place the data lives, then hard-delete or anonymise each one per field, with a record of what was erased and when. The request becomes defensible, not hopeful.
“Who read this customer’s record last month? We have no record. The SOC 2 auditor flagged it.”
Append-only audit log on every mutation. Actor, tenant, IP, timestamp, before and after value on every write. Tenant-admin viewable, exportable. The auditor is satisfied and the ICO question becomes a query.
“We have UK and EU customers. An enterprise prospect asked where their data lives and we froze.”
Region-pinned storage + SCCs + a data map. UK and EU data stays where the contract says. Standard Contractual Clauses cover transfers. You answer the residency question with one diagram instead of a meeting.
“Our Record of Processing Activities is a spreadsheet from 2023. Nobody trusts it.”
ROPA wired to your infrastructure. The record stays current because it reflects what’s actually deployed, not what someone remembered to type. Sub-processor list versioned and change-logged. The next review clears in days.
“Our cookie banner fires tags before consent. Withdrawal does nothing. Nobody owns it.”
Consent captured before the tag fires. Stored with proof, respected downstream, withdrawn as easily as granted. TCF v2.2 where the ad stack needs it. The banner stops being a liability and starts being evidence.
“The ICO asked for a record and we couldn’t produce it inside the deadline.”
DSAR runbook + audit-log export. Every customer decision and data access is logged and exportable per subject, per date range. The supervisory response writes itself instead of starting a panic.
“Our acquirer’s CTO flagged the compliance posture and threatened a 25% diligence haircut.”
Evidence pipeline + ADR pack. A 30-page brief written to the regulator’s question, six ADRs, the DSAR and erasure tooling, and the procurement pack. Their CTO reads it once and signs retention.
What lives on the data-protection spine. Each one wired idempotent, audit-logged, and built so the next request answers itself instead of starting a fire drill.
One request triggers collection across every table and sub-processor, third-party redaction, and a clean export. The 30-day deadline becomes a status bar, not a backlog.
Per-field hard-delete or anonymise across the whole estate, with a record of what was erased and when. Backups and downstream copies handled by policy.
Consent captured before the tag fires, stored with proof, respected downstream, and easy to withdraw. TCF v2.2 where the ad stack needs it.
Region-pinned storage for UK and EU data. Standard Contractual Clauses for cross-border. A data map your DPO and your acquirer can read in one diagram.
Record of Processing Activities wired to your infrastructure, not a spreadsheet. Sub-processor list versioned and change-logged for the next review.
Actor, tenant, IP, timestamp, before-value, after-value on every write. Searchable, exportable, and the answer to the ICO or SOC 2 question.
A DPIA template your team fills per feature, plus a 72-hour breach-notification runbook so the worst day isn’t the day you improvise the process.
SIG-Lite plus CAIQ pre-filled. DPA plus SCCs ready to sign. Data map, retention policy, breach plan. Vendor security review clears in days, not weeks.
Sixteen GDPR engagements have stress-tested these picks. Tier 1 runs every build. Tier 2 is what we reach for when the brief needs it. Tier 3 scales it to enterprise volume without a rebuild.
Nadia’s SaaS, in real numbers. In-house GDPR rebuilt over a fixed-scope sprint. Senior pairing, ADRs same day, evidence pipeline on day one. The acquirer’s CTO walked the surface, signed full-team retention, and the deal closed at ask.
We don’t publish prices on a page. Every GDPR scope is different. Pick the shape that fits and Mohit will send your real number inside 24 hours.
Two senior engineers read your estate and brief. You leave with a written plan, not a sales deck.
8 to 14 weeks of fixed-scope shipping. Audit-led, evidence-pipeline-first, observable, same seniors all the way.
After handover. One day a week of a senior engineer for new surfaces, evidence upkeep, and the next review.
“Their CTO walked the same surface he’d threatened a haircut over, signed retention, and the deal closed at ask.”
— Nadia, founder, UK SaaS scale-upPain-first, soft-second. The questions every founder, CTO, and DPO asks after their third bad compliance experience.
The audit is fixed at £8K: five days, two senior engineers, a 30-page brief, six ADRs, and a fixed-price quote. After that, most GDPR engineering services sprints land between £18K and £55K on an 8-to-14 week fixed-scope basis, line-itemed so you can cut any piece. No day-rate, no scope creep. If we can’t hit your budget we tell you in week one and you walk away with the audit brief, no commitment.
No. We work in place wherever possible. The DSAR runbook, the erasure engine, and the audit log all wire into the database and services you already run. If a migration genuinely helps, we scope it at the audit and run old and new in parallel until you sign off. We’re not here to sell you a rebuild you don’t need.
You get an ADR pack, an append-only audit log, the DSAR and right-to-erasure tooling, the data map, and the procurement security pack. Your DPO reads the brief and signs. Your acquirer’s CTO walks the surface and stops asking for things. We’ve had three acquirer reviews pass on first walkthrough in 2025 with this exact evidence pipeline.
Region-pinned storage so UK and EU data stays where the contract says, Standard Contractual Clauses for any cross-border transfer, and a documented data map so the residency question is a diagram, not a meeting. Default AWS with region pinning, and we’ve shipped the same pattern on GCP, Azure, and Cloudflare where the data has to live somewhere specific.
This is the single biggest risk with a small studio, and the reason we pair two seniors on every engagement, not one. Every decision is written into an ADR the same day. Every commit goes through Mohit’s review. If one engineer leaves, the other has full context the next morning. In seven years, two engineers have left mid-project. Both handovers were inside 48 hours and neither client noticed in their sprint.
Yes, because the work is already done. The DSAR runbook collects across every table and sub-processor, and the audit log exports every data access per subject and per date range. The 30-day deadline becomes a button instead of a backlog, and the supervisory response writes itself from the records you already keep. That’s the whole point of GDPR engineering services: the answer exists before the question lands.
Yes, with 14 days’ notice. The engineers move to other work, your repo stays where it is, your spend pauses. Pick it back up with 14 days’ notice and we resume at the same sprint board with the same engineers. No cancellation fee, no restart fee. We’ve done this six times in 2025; two clients paused for four months and both came back and shipped.
You walk away cleanly. The handover pack includes the architecture brief, ADRs, runbook, on-call playbook, DPA, and a video tour of the codebase for your next engineer. There’s an optional £5K/month advisory retainer if you want a senior voice on your engineering calls, cancellable with 30 days’ notice any month. Most clients run it for the first six to nine months while their in-house lead settles in, then end it without ceremony. No lock-in, no surprise renewals.
gdpr engineering services, in context — the dashboards, flows and components your team actually ships, reviews and maintains.
Tell us your current estate, your deadline, and the outcome you need. Mohit reads every first email and replies inside 24 hours: a clear yes, a clear no, or the one question that decides it, plus the next audit slot.
Yes, no, or the deciding question. Straight to your inbox, not a team thread.
We map the data, write the trade-offs, hand you a 30-page brief and a fixed-price quote.
DSAR, erasure, consent, ROPA, and the evidence pack your acquirer’s CTO reads cold.