About Data Operatives

We help Heads of Compliance in 50–250 person traditional UK finance, insurance and regulated firms replace risky Excel chaos with secure, auditable workflows — fast.

Since 2018, Data Operatives has worked quietly with UK-regulated businesses that are held back by manual, spreadsheet-driven processes. While the big consultancies chase £50k+ projects, we deliver a focused, fixed-price solution that actually gets results in days, not months.

The problem we fix every day

Most mid-sized compliance, risk and operations teams are still stuck with the same painful realities:

• Monthly regulatory reports and reconciliations built manually in Excel
• No proper audit trail for approvals or changes
• Multiple versions of “the truth” floating between spreadsheets and emails
• Supporting documents scattered across inboxes and shared drives
• One key person holding the entire process together (single point of failure)

These issues don’t just waste time — they create real FCA exposure around operational resilience, auditability, Treating Customers Fairly (TCF), AML/KYC, and record-keeping requirements.

Our solution: the £3,500 Compliance Workflow Triage & Blueprint

We don’t sell you a long consultancy engagement or force you to buy software upfront.

Instead, we offer a fast, fixed-price 10-working-day package designed specifically for busy Heads of Compliance:

• Full workflow discovery (2–3 short interviews with your team)
• Clear visual map of your current process
• Written Triage Report showing the real risks and cost of doing nothing
• Detailed future-state Blueprint with recommended tools and fixes
• Prioritised 12-month roadmap
• 30-minute presentation to you and your stakeholders

Everything can be delivered remotely. No travel. No long contracts. Just clarity and a practical plan you can act on immediately.

Real results, real clients (anonymised)

• Care Home Operator → Replaced end-of-shift Word templates and manual CQC reporting with mobile-first structured incident capture and automatic audit logs.
• UK Law Firm → Eliminated a full-time manual KYC role by automating client ID verification, sanctions screening and risk scoring via secure mobile links and APIs.
• General Insurer → Transformed chaotic First Notification of Loss (FNOL) intake from phone/email/PDF chaos into real-time digital forms with auto data extraction, validation and instant routing — dramatically improving FCA fair treatment standards.

In every case we first ran the exact Triage & Blueprint process we’re now offering you.

Why Heads of Compliance choose us

• We speak your language — workflow, audit trails, regulatory risk — not generic “digital transformation”.
• Fixed price, fixed timeline, zero ambiguity.
• We’ve done the discovery → blueprint → implementation cycle many times before.
• You keep full control. We’re not here to sell you a platform you don’t need.

If your team is still drowning in manual processes, version-control nightmares or audit-trail gaps, we can help you fix it — quickly and affordably.

Next step (zero risk):

Book your free 30-minute Workflow Risk Scan today. We’ll quickly map where the biggest risks and time-wasters sit in your current processes and tell you whether the Triage & Blueprint makes sense for you.