About CompanyScope

CompanyScope publishes independent compliance research on the AI vendors that UK and EU businesses are actually being asked to approve. Each profile is written by a practising Data Protection Officer with CIPP/E credentials, reviewed against the vendor's current public documentation, and dated so you can see when the research was last refreshed.

It is a Janus Compliance project. We don't hide that. The credibility of the research is the credibility of the person doing it.

Who writes the profiles

Michael K. Onyekwere — CIPP/E. Common law qualified lawyer practising as a Data Protection Officer. Ten years working compliance at Royal Bank of Scotland, Fidelity, UnitedHealth, and TMF Group. He runs Janus Compliance, an AI compliance practice for engineers and founders.

He writes. He doesn't outsource the editorial. Profile drafts may use AI tooling for first-pass research from public documentation, but every profile is reviewed and edited by him before publication, and the unresolved-questions section is his judgement, not a template.

How profiles are made

1. Start from public documentation: DPA, subprocessor list, trust center, privacy policy, security pages.
2. Cross-check against vendor blog posts and public regulatory filings.
3. Apply the standard schema (data processed, DPA, subprocessors, training position, transfers, security docs, AI Act role, DPIA prompts, red flags).
4. Flag every gap, contradiction, or recently-changed default explicitly.
5. Date the review. Refresh on a quarterly cadence or when the vendor announces a material change.

What CompanyScope is not

• It is not legal advice. Use it as research input, not as a sign-off.
• It is not a vendor-paid directory. Vendors do not pay to be profiled, and a positive profile is not for sale.
• It is not a snapshot guarantee. Vendor terms change. Last-reviewed dates show how fresh the research is.
• It is not a marketing channel for the vendor. We write what we find, including what we don't find.

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