Vol. 01 · No. 02
Summer 2026
Answerable messaging · for UK trustee and council boards

If someone asked for it tomorrow, could you produce it?

A solicitor's letter asks for "all messages about my mother". A safeguarding review needs a handover chat that sits on the personal phone of someone who left in March. Somewhere in your organisation the honest answer is "on people's own phones" – and not one word of it can be produced.

That is the thing we build against. ComplyChat gives those conversations a channel your organisation owns – as easy as the messaging your people already prefer, verified by text, nothing to install – and once your Microsoft 365 tenant is connected, the lasting record files there: your tenant, your retention rules, per organisation, never pooled with anyone else's. We never become your system of record.

Ten minutes on a call: within the first minute or two you are messaging in a real channel from your own phone, a member of staff answers from Microsoft Teams, and before we hang up a magic link signs you into the client portal, where you can see your own record. You drive it, not us. No pitch deck. Or take our measure first and open a channel yourself, right now, without speaking to anyone: of the thirty-four vendors we surveyed, twenty-six will not even publish a price.

The Answerable Guarantee, in the contract on every tier. If a Subject Access Request touches your channels and you cannot produce the record from them within one working day, our team works it with you, free. If it still cannot be produced, we refund your full year. It does not cover a record you deliberately deleted yourself, or a tenant changed away from the setup we documented with you at onboarding – and it is never withheld for a setup we advised ourselves.

Built and run in the UK. Your messages are processed in UK Azure, and your record stays in your own UK Microsoft tenant.

Chair of a board? See what a board's own channel looks like – the board's record, clean from the start. Or ask for the one-page trustee briefing, no call needed.

The live product · not a demo Open a real channel A real channel in your browser. Verified by SMS in seconds – no app to download, no account with anyone else. comply.chat.org.uk

Product demo · ask it anything

ComplyChat online Recorded
Your record sits in your own Microsoft 365 The permanent record of truth lives in your own Microsoft 365, never pooled with anyone else's – we run the channels and hold a working copy to operate them, and you control how long that lasts.
01Told, always Everyone added to a channel is told it is on the record, and can object or leave at any time
02No app, no account Verified by SMS in seconds – no app to download, no account with anyone else
03Calls too Voice and video calls are recorded with clear labelling, and land in your own Microsoft 365 with a transcript
04UK, no Meta Every message is processed in UK Azure, with no Meta step in the middle
Answerable messaging · written as your board would minute it

There is no such thing as a private work conversation. There is only one you can answer for, and one you cannot.

01 · The exposure. Work conversations about the people we serve happen on channels this organisation does not own. If they were asked for, we could not produce them and we could not hold them, and they end when a phone is replaced or a term expires.

02 · What changes. Those conversations move to a channel we own, which families, volunteers and the public reach from a plain text with nothing to install. Everyone on it is told it is on the record and can object or leave at any time. From the first governed message onward, and once our Microsoft 365 tenant is connected, the record files there – under the retention and legal-hold rules we already run for email.

03 · What it does not fix. It cannot read anyone's personal phone, and it cannot pull in conversations that already happened. Nothing lawful can. The record starts clean, and closing the rest stays governance work for us. Our supplier publishes that on their own website, before we buy.

It outlives the person.

A term ends, a phone is replaced, a member of staff leaves. Their access ends. The record does not move, because it was never anywhere but your own Microsoft 365.

Nobody is watched in secret.

Everyone added to a channel gets a notice that it is on the record. They can object or leave at any time. We supply the wording.

Your own people produce it.

A read-only Replay viewer for a quick look back, and Microsoft Purview search and export in your own tenant, on your own licensing, for the request itself. We do not answer it for you. You do, from your own record – and if you cannot, we refund your year.

Exit · in the contract

The strongest thing we can say about your record is that we do not hold it.

Leave whenever you like. The record was always yours, in your own Microsoft 365 – there is nothing to hand back and barely anything to delete. We confirm in writing that the little we hold is gone, and there are no fees to leave. If we're not earning the renewal, we shouldn't have it.

We surveyed thirty-four vendors in this market. Twenty-five of them pool every client's permanent records in their own cloud. Twenty-six will not publish a price. We do neither.

The two-minute check

What would this look like for us?

Three quick questions – see how it works for an organisation like yours, and exactly what it costs. Nothing to fill in, no email needed.

What it costs

One flat price per tier. Adding more people is always free.

Tier 01 Foundation
Foundation
A single site, service or small organisation
£199 / month
Or £1,990 / yr · invoiced in advance
  • Two channels – typically one for staff, one for families
  • Your whole team, and as many families and volunteers as you like – no charge per person
  • Your own local number, answered from Microsoft Teams
  • The record in your own Microsoft 365, with retention applied in your own tenant
  • Read-only Replay, plus Purview search and export in your own tenant
  • Setup included on yearly plans · email support within 48 hours
Tier 03 Enterprise
Enterprise
Large or multi-site organisations
From £1,500 / month
From £18,000 / yr · custom
  • As many channels as you like, a separate record per site
  • Microsoft Teams across every site, with numbers wherever you reach families
  • Retention rules and legal holds, set up across every site with you
  • Read-only Replay across every site, including channels you have closed
  • Purview search and bulk export across every site, from your own record
  • A named lead and promised response times · setup across every site included

Every number is the number you pay, before VAT. Setup is included on every yearly plan. See what is in each tier →

Six questions

Questions worth asking.

The long answers, and a dozen more questions, are on the FAQ page.

No, and we would not sell you one. Board portals hold the meeting – the pack, the agenda, the minutes, the register – and if you have one, keep it. We hold the conversation around it, and the far larger share of it that never touches a board at all: the duty line, the family, the frontline, the volunteer. Most of the organisations we build for do not own a portal, which is rather the point.
No. Nothing from Meta touches this. We give your people the same easy messaging in a channel your organisation owns, so the conversation happens somewhere you can produce it.
In your own Microsoft 365, in your own tenant, with your own retention rules applied. Not pooled with anyone else's, and not with us.
No. We will not pull in your old conversations – each channel opens clean, on the record, from the first governed message.
Their access ends. The record does not move. It was never anywhere but your own Microsoft 365.
No. The service is designed to ISO 27001:2022 and the certificate is on its way, not yet held. Until we are certified we say targeting, not certified.
The demo · from your own phone

Ten minutes. You send the first message.

A call with our team. In the first minute or two you send a message in a real channel from your own phone, and a member of staff answers it from Microsoft Teams. Before the call ends we send you a magic link that signs you into the client portal, where you can see your own record. No pitch deck, and a straight answer on whether we are right for you. Even if that answer is no.

The briefing: one page on the risks in your work messaging, written for boards. No follow-up unless you ask for one.