Find your shadow DSARs before a regulator does.

A fixed-fee review that surfaces every place a data subject request is being answered incompletely or off-process. You get a clear map of the gaps and a plan to close them.

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What's a shadow DSAR?

A shadow DSAR is a data subject request that gets accepted and answered outside your central, compliant process, usually by a separate team or business unit that doesn't meet the same standard.

The response goes out, the ticket gets closed, and on paper it looks handled. But it's incomplete or inconsistent, and the company is still legally accountable for it. That's how an organization that believes it's compliant ends up exposed to fines.

You can't fix what you can't see. The review makes the invisible visible.

✓Central privacy teamcompliant
!Support handling its ownshadow
!Regional office, own processshadow
!Acquired team, old workflowshadow
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⚠Incomplete responses, real liabilityexposure
// what you get

A clear, actionable picture

Something concrete a privacy or compliance leader can act on and take to an auditor.

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Where requests are handled
Every team, tool, and channel currently accepting or answering data subject requests, including the ones outside the official process.
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Which sources are missed
The data sources that aren't being searched today, so you can see exactly where responses are coming up short.
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A prioritized fix plan
A remediation roadmap that tells you what to fix and in what order, whether you do it in-house or with us.
// blindspot review
from $15K
Fixed fee · typically 2 to 4 weeks · no obligation to do more
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Common questions

A shadow DSAR is a data subject access request that is accepted and answered outside your central, compliant process, usually by a separate team or business unit that does not meet the same standard. The result is an incomplete or inconsistent response. Because the company is still legally accountable for it, shadow DSARs are a quiet but real source of regulatory risk.
You get a clear map of where data subject requests are being handled, which data sources are being missed, and where responses fall short of the compliance standard. It includes a prioritized remediation plan so you know exactly what to fix and in what order. It is designed to give a privacy or compliance leader something concrete to act on and to take to an auditor.
The blindspot review is a fixed fee starting at $15,000 and typically takes two to four weeks. It is intentionally a low-commitment way to get an expert, honest picture of your DSAR exposure. If you decide to fix the gaps with a full DSAR automation build, the review work feeds directly into that scope.
No. The review stands on its own and many clients use it simply to understand and document their risk. If you do choose to remediate, we can scope a full DSAR automation build, but there is no obligation. The goal of the review is clarity, not a sales funnel.

See where you actually stand.

A few weeks and a fixed fee for an honest, expert picture of your DSAR exposure. We respond within one business day.

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