( GOVERNED. NOT GRUMPY. )

Everything you need to enter the AI era. Governed.

Regulated companies lose months every year to spreadsheets, evidence hunts and audit binders. We give you a complete governed operating framework for one flat rate — guardrails built in, so your teams can automate and innovate without fear.

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Grumpy Bear — the geometric bear mark
01The Suite — flat-rate framework 02Readiness Audit 03Adoption & Change 04Governance Updates
01 / SERVICE

The Suite

A complete governed operating framework for IT in regulated business — 9 domains, 58 processes, 37 internal controls across the Three Lines of Defence, 65 standards, and a regulatory register mapping DORA, the EU AI Act, NIS2 and GDPR to the processes and controls that satisfy them. Interactive, multilingual, yours for one flat annual rate.

  • Handbooks, self-audit workbooks, integration planners and a step-by-step implementation guide — everything to run it yourself
  • 8 interface languages · framework content in EN·DE·NL·FR·ES·IT·PT·PL, more as released
  • Maturity scorecard — your before/after proof for the board
  • Evidence and automation path defined per control
ONE FLAT ANNUAL FEE · NO MODULES · NO PER-SEAT
02 / SERVICE

Readiness Audit — on the roadmap

Prefer a second pair of eyes? Five days, fixed price: your current state mapped honestly against the framework — gap register, prioritised roadmap, executive readout. The Suite includes the same self-audit workbook, so your team can run this without us. Truly your choice.

FIXED 5-DAY PACKAGE
03 / SERVICE

Adoption & Change — on the roadmap

Frameworks fail on adoption, not content. We run the executive briefing, team walkthroughs, control training and system-integration workshops that make governance stick — until evidence produces itself and manual tasks retire.

FIXED 15-DAY BLOCK · OR SIMPLE DAY RATE
04 / INCLUDED

Governance Updates

Regulation changes; your suite updates. When an instrument is replaced or a new obligation lands, the register changes and every licensed client receives the refresh. The next regulation is a register update — not a transformation programme.

INCLUDED IN THE LICENCE, ALWAYS
Monthslost per year to manual GRC — what we remove
€1m+the usual yearly price of an integrated GRC platform — what we replace
58processes, mapped to every obligation — what you get
1flat rate — what it costs
The bear in its den, guarding the organisation

Why the bear?

My son gave me the name. I was always working, often grumpy — and, in fairness, I'm a bit round with a big beard. The grumpiness had a source: years of watching brilliant people in financial services spend their evenings reconciling screenshots into audit binders that created nothing.

So I built the way out — and put the bear in the den, where he belongs: inside the organisation, guarding it. The bear stays grumpy so you don't have to be.

( TALK TO THE BEAR )

Start with the free Readiness Scan.

Twenty questions, five minutes, an honest score — then a 30-minute debrief on where you stand and whether The Suite fits. If it doesn't, we'll tell you where to look instead. No slides, no pressure; the bear does neither.

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