GDPRfolder makes the GDPR accessible to SMEs. Instead of relying on expensive, time-consuming lawyers and consultants, companies can audit their GDPR risk autonomously, improve and demonstrate their compliance, and keep up with the evolving best practices the regulation demands.
Decision-making automation
Making the right decision is a constant challenge — so what if an application could make it for you?
A key part of GDPR is making the right decisions to protect private data. The regulation is complex: a multitude of cases, conditions, local implementations, and grey areas. To handle that complexity, we built an algorithm that decides on the user’s behalf. It combines:
- a model of the law and its decision criteria, and
- a decision tree covering different geographies and sectors.
Decision-making algorithms like this have real potential to cut the cost of expertise and reach conclusions faster.
Technologies: Elixir (especially for pattern matching)
Automated document drafting
What if your next contract could write itself?
To help users prove their compliance, we built an automated drafting engine that:
- writes a coherent legal document,
- adapts the text to the user’s data and the decision-making engine, and
- delivers a high-quality PDF with hyperlinks, a table of contents, and more.
Compared with a traditional lawyer’s pricing and turnaround, the engine produces a 50-page legal document as a PDF in under three seconds.
Technologies: Elixir (document generation), LaTeX (PDF rendering), Amazon S3 (PDF storage)
Handling large volumes of multilingual text efficiently
Translating every piece of text quickly becomes time-consuming — and should a release really wait on the last French translation?
We needed to manage translations in French, Dutch, and English efficiently, and legal texts are long, with no room for approximate wording. So we built a system, integrated with Phrase, that:
- pushes translation requests,
- lets us hire and manage external translators,
- pulls translated texts, and
- flags missing translations.
Integrating with Phrase sped us up dramatically, saved days of work, and reduced the chance of human error across a complex corpus.
Technologies: Gettext (internationalization and localization), Phrase (translation management)
Online payment with multiple business models
Online payment is nothing new, but choosing the right tool can be cost-effective and speed up development.
The project needed several business models, such as a direct subscription and a subscription through a reseller taking a fee. The team also wanted to stay informed about sales. So we implemented:
- a credit-card subscription with Stripe,
- a dashboard for resellers to track their sales, and
- short, automated Slack messages triggered by new payments.
Together, this forms a full-fledged payment system that outsources the cost of financial security for a reasonable fee.
Technologies: Stripe (payment processing), Slack (team messaging)
Embeddable badge for client websites
Letting users embed a badge on their website is a great way to promote the service.
We built a certification badge so clients can display their level of GDPR compliance. They simply copy and paste a snippet onto their site, and our server returns the badge matching their level.
Technologies: HTML iframe