Data Diagnostic
A fixed-fee, one-day engagement that ends with a shortlist you can buy and a document your auditor can read.
What happens
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Before the day
A 30-minute call. We agree scope, who needs to be in the room and what you need out of it.
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On the day
We sit with your reconciliation team, walk the process end to end, read the breaks, look at the data and the controls, and listen.
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Two weeks later
You receive the Data Diagnostic report: how your reconciliations actually run today, where the risk and the cost sit, your real requirements in plain language, and a shortlist of three or four vendors or fixes with reasons.
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Then it is your decision
Use the report with us or without us. Many clients go on to selection and design; some just fix what we found.
What you get
- End-to-end data flow map, from source system to matched record
- Documented as-is process and control map
- Break and exception analysis from your own data
- Requirements written in plain language, not vendor language
- Vendor shortlist with fit, cost band and risk for each
- CASS and safeguarding considerations flagged for your compliance lead
- A one-hour readout with Marc and Iain
Who it is for
- Firms facing a regulatory change such as CASS 15 safeguarding or CASS 7 client money
- Operations leads who know the rec is manual or broken but cannot yet quantify it
- Anyone about to sign with a vendor and wanting a second opinion first
Fixed fee
One fixed fee, agreed in advance, no day-rate surprises. We quote on the first call.
Book your dayQuestions
Do we need to prepare anything?
A list of your reconciliations and who runs them, sample data files for each (both sides of the match, from a recent day) and a sample of recent breaks. We send a one-page checklist after the first call.
Which systems do you cover?
All of them. We have evaluated more than fifty platforms and we work with spreadsheet and in-house reconciliations just as often as enterprise tools.
Are you independent?
We do not sell software and we do not implement for a vendor. Where a referral fee exists we tell you, and we never let it decide the shortlist.
What if we already have a vendor in mind?
Good. The Data Diagnostic tests that choice against your real requirements, which is cheaper than finding out after the contract.