COMPLIANCE AND REGULATED TECH SERVICES

Compliance software development UK businesses can rely on

Every few years a new duty arrives that changes how businesses have to work. The law says what must happen. It rarely says how you will keep track of it. That gap is where compliance software earns its place: it watches the data, works out what is due and keeps the evidence that it was done.

We build that software, both as products businesses subscribe to and as internal tools for a single organisation. The work is part legal reading, part careful engineering, and it only works when both are taken seriously.

Our own compliance product: Guaranteed Hours

The Employment Rights Act 2025 introduces a guaranteed-hours duty for employers, expected to come into force in 2027. We built Guaranteed Hours, one of our own products, to help employers prepare for it. It tracks the hours people actually work and flags when an offer of guaranteed hours is due.

That sounds simple. The hard part is everything around it: getting hours data in from the systems employers already use, showing managers what needs attention without drowning them in alerts, and keeping a record that stands up if anyone asks later. If you employ people on variable hours, our article on what employers need in place for the guaranteed-hours duty is a good place to start.

Guaranteed Hours is a subscription product, so it also needed accounts, billing and onboarding. That side of the work is covered on our SaaS development page.

How we build software around rules

We write the rules down first

Before any code, we turn the duty into a plain-English specification: what triggers it, what has to happen, by when, and what counts as done. You and your advisers check it. The software is then built against that document, so there is always a clear link between the law and the logic.

We keep interpretation out of the code

We are software builders, not lawyers. Where guidance is unclear or still to be published, we make the setting configurable and flag it, rather than bake in a guess. When the answer arrives, it is a change to a setting or a rule, not a rebuild.

We test every rule

Each rule has automated tests with worked examples: this person, these hours, this result. They run on every release. It is the only way to change compliance software with confidence.

We keep the evidence

A compliance tool that cannot show its working is half a tool. Every alert, decision and action is logged with a time and a name, and can be exported when it is needed.

Regulated sectors as well as regulated duties

Some businesses are not facing one new rule but work in a regulated sector every day. Healthcare is the obvious one. Our clinic directory, Rated Clinics, is built on imports from the CQC register, so we are used to working with official data and presenting it accurately. If you need an internal system for a regulated workflow rather than a product, see our web apps and internal tools service.