Consumer Duty, evidenced
Show good client outcomes across every case, ready for a review, without building a reporting function.
For directly authorised firms
Compliance without a compliance team.
You hold your own FCA permission, and the full weight of the rules that come with it, often without a dedicated compliance function. Bedrock gives a small firm the oversight and evidence of a big one.
A small firm carries the same rules as a large one.
Directly authorised means you answer to the FCA directly, without a network’s shared infrastructure behind you. Consumer Duty raised the bar again. Most of the burden is evidence you have to produce and cannot easily reconstruct.
- No compliance team
- The rules apply in full whether or not you have someone whose job it is to keep up with them.
- Consumer Duty
- You have to show good client outcomes, not just assert them, on every piece of advice.
- Manual evidence
- Reconstructing what happened for a file review eats days you do not have.
- AI creeping in
- You are starting to use AI to draft advice, and you are on the hook for what it produces.
Set up in minutes, ready for a review.
Bedrock is built to be run by the person who also gives the advice, not a separate compliance department.
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Start in a sandbox in minutes, with no procurement and no implementation project.
Bring in your advice
Connect your back-office or add advice directly. Every case is captured as it is produced.
Review with a checklist
Work each case through a suitability and Consumer Duty checklist, with the whole review recorded.
Be ready for anything
Produce a complete evidence pack for a file review or the FCA in minutes, not days.
What you get.
Suitability on file
A structured record of why each recommendation was suitable, and who checked it.
Audit-ready in minutes
Turn a regulator request from a week of digging into a single export.
Grows with you
The oversight of a large firm, priced and sized for one that is still small.
Using AI to write advice? Cover yourself.
AI can help a small firm punch above its weight, but the FCA still holds you responsible for the advice, however it was drafted. Bedrock keeps a human check in front of AI-assisted advice and records it, so using AI never becomes the thing that catches you out.
- Capture the part AI played in each recommendation.
- Keep a human review in front of anything AI helped write.
- Show the regulator you are using AI responsibly, with the evidence to back it.