Why ArkComply
How ArkComply fits, and what we deliberately don't do
Eight stages sit between a regulation existing and a firm being able to prove it complied. ArkComply occupies the last five.
Stages 01–03 · Yours
Knowledge and judgement
Regulatory intelligence
What rules exist, and what changed.
Obligation mapping
Which of those rules bind this entity, in this jurisdiction, doing this activity.
Control design
What you do to satisfy each obligation. Who owns it, how often, and what good looks like.
The break
The framework lives in a Word document, the controls live in people's calendars, evidence gets reconstructed from email when somebody asks, and testing happens the week before the audit.
Stages 04–08 · Ours
The vessel
Execution
The control is actually performed, on time, by the named owner.
Evidence capture
Proof generated at the moment of performance, rather than assembled afterwards from memory.
Testing and monitoring
The second line checks the control worked, not merely that it ran.
Issue management
Something failed. It gets logged, owned, escalated and resolved, with the route out recommended.
Assurance and audit
Stages four to seven, assembled into something you hand to an auditor, a regulator or a client.
Why we start at four
You know your business, your risk appetite and your regulator. A vendor guessing at your control design hands you a framework you argue with rather than run. Bringing your own controls is the point: it is the signal that we trust you to do the part you are expert in.
Why it gets easier
A framework is written once and then argued about. An operating record accumulates. By the second cycle the evidence is already there, the gaps are known, and the questions an auditor asks have answers attached, so each round costs less than the one before it.
Purpose-built for regulated firms
ArkComply isn't a repurposed GRC tool. We built this platform specifically for compliance functions at regulated firms, with workflows designed around how they actually operate.
Generic compliance tools require extensive customisation before they fit a regulated firm at all. ArkComply was built from the ground up around three lines of defence, obligation traceability and evidence that stands up to inspection.
European regulatory focus
The register, the reporting formats and the data residency all assume a European regulated firm. This is not a US GRC platform with an EU checkbox bolted on.
Modular adoption
Start with what you need: obligation mapping, evidence management, or control testing. Expand when you're ready.
Secure European infrastructure
Hosted in the EU, exportable at any time, and documented in full on our Trust page →How we compare
Most firms are choosing between a shared drive and a platform built for enterprises ten times their size. Here is where ArkComply sits.
