Case studies

Real results from real engagements. From a DPO and privacy lead across 100+ organizations.

These anonymized case studies show how tech companies at Seed to Series B use an outsourced DPO to close enterprise deals faster, expand into the EU, satisfy investors, build AI governance, and manage breaches without regulatory escalation.

Find your situation:

Losing enterprise deals to privacy? See: SaaS enterprise deals
Expanding into the EU? See: US Fintech EU expansion
Processing health data at scale? See: HealthTech
Raising a round with regulatory scrutiny? See: Crypto Series B
Building AI and need governance? See: AI company
Need breach response support? See: Breach response

SaaS company cuts enterprise deal privacy cycle from 8+ weeks to under 3

Your situation: You're a SaaS company losing enterprise deals because procurement asks for DPAs, a DPO, and privacy docs you don't have.

A Series B SaaS company with ~80 employees, serving EU and US customers, had three deals worth EUR 400K+ in combined ARR stalled for 6-8 weeks each. One was lost entirely. The DPO appointment was commercially driven by enterprise buyer requirements.

Over a 3-month engagement, we built core documentation, appointed a DPO, and created a reusable trust package. The enterprise deal privacy cycle dropped from 8+ weeks to under 3 weeks. The CTO was largely removed from privacy questions. Their Series B closed on schedule.

US Fintech achieves enterprise-ready GDPR compliance framework in 6 weeks

Your situation: You're a US company signing your first EU customer and need GDPR compliance fast.

A US-based Series A Fintech (~45 employees) signed its first EU enterprise customer but couldn't complete onboarding without GDPR compliance, an EU Representative, and a named DPO. The deal was worth EUR 200K+ with a 90-day deadline.

We implemented a core GDPR compliance framework in 6 weeks, with the EU Representative and DPO functions kept operationally separate. The first EU customer onboarded successfully, and a second signed within 3 months using the same package.

HealthTech company builds privacy framework for health data at scale

Your situation: You process patient health records and hospitals won't buy until you demonstrate GDPR compliance for special category data.

A Series A HealthTech SaaS (~60 employees) acting as a processor for hospitals had two deals stalled because they couldn't demonstrate GDPR compliance for health data processing. Over a 4-month engagement, we built a health-data-specific privacy framework including DPIAs, retention policies, and procurement-ready documentation. Both deals unblocked within 6 weeks. HIPAA gap assessment completed for planned US market entry.

Crypto company passes investor and regulatory scrutiny for Series B

Your situation: You're raising a round, investors are asking about GDPR, and a regulator has been asking questions.

A late-stage Series A crypto company (~35 employees) was raising a Series B while a supervisory authority had made informal inquiries about data practices. We built investor-ready privacy documentation, a KYC/AML data retention framework balancing GDPR and AML requirements, and a regulatory response process. The Series B closed on schedule with all privacy questions answered from existing documentation.

AI company builds governance framework to win enterprise deals

Your situation: Enterprise prospects ask about AI governance, automated decision-making, and the EU AI Act, and you have nothing to show them.

A Series A AI/ML company (~50 employees) with an NLP product (inference/processing, not training on customer data) had two enterprise deals worth EUR 300K+ stalled because they had no AI governance documentation. Over 3 months, we completed an initial EU AI Act risk classification assessment, AI-specific DPIAs, training data governance, and an enterprise-ready governance package. Both deals closed within 8 weeks of completion.

SaaS company manages data breach with no enforcement action

Your situation: You've had a breach or near-miss and need to know what good incident response looks like.

A Series B SaaS company (~120 employees) discovered a misconfigured cloud storage bucket on a Friday evening. Using our 24/7 breach support, we had an incident call within 30 minutes, filed the supervisory authority notification within 72 hours, and managed customer and data subject communications. No enforcement action. No customer churn in the quarter following the incident.

All case studies are anonymized. Company names, specific financial details, and identifying information are changed or omitted to protect client confidentiality.

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