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Compliance · Governance · Offshore Delivery
Compliance and delivery governance for UK SMEs that offshore.
OffshoreAssure gives small and medium UK businesses the vendor oversight a large enterprise builds internally: evaluating vendor compliance before contract, confirming a data transfer is legally allowed before it occurs, and monitoring delivery against verifiable evidence instead of vendor reporting — with no in-house legal, security or procurement team.
Design specification for the planned MVP build. No component is live at the date of this plan.
Buyer dashboard
Compliance · Contract · Data transfer · Delivery
Evidence-backed
£36–37bn
UK IT outsourcing market (2024)
9.53%
Projected annual UK growth to ~£53bn by 2030
600,000
Unfilled UK technology jobs
5–50
Employee UK SMEs targeted
The Market Gap
UK SMEs offshore at increasing depth, with a structural blind spot in between.
A UK company engaging an offshore vendor assumes risks that are not examined at the time of hiring: whether the vendor has the right to the code they write, whether client data is transferred internationally in a way that breaches data protection rules, and whether work is on schedule or only revealed as late after the deadline. Brexit removed about 300,000 EU workers from the domestic talent pool, and 63% of UK organisations plan to maintain or expand outsourcing in 2025.
Project tools ignore governance
Jira, Asana and Trello coordinate offshore work but never ask whether the vendor has adequate data protection, whether the contract protects the buyer's IP, or whether a transfer is lawful.
Enterprise GRC is out of reach
Platforms such as Vanta and OneTrust are priced, resourced and implemented for large organisations with compliance teams — not a ten or twenty-person UK SME.
How it works
Four inputs in. Governed access, flags and scores out.
Buyers get one place to investigate a vendor before contract, monitor data access and confidentiality during the project, and confirm delivery is happening as promised — based on facts rather than the vendor's word. It is not a marketplace for finding offshore talent; it sits above the vendor relationship a business already has and governs it.
01
Vendor onboarding questionnaire
Company registration, ISO 27001, UK GDPR, insurance, subcontracting practices and security controls are captured through a structured questionnaire.
02
Contract, SOW and NDA upload
Buyer documents are uploaded so clause types covering IP ownership, confidentiality, subcontracting, data usage and milestone triggers can be extracted.
03
Data transfer request check
The buyer records data type and destination country before any repository access or credentials are issued, and the request is approved, denied or marked for manual review.
04
Delivery evidence in, score out
Commits, tickets, milestones and response times feed a rolling delivery assurance score, with alerts naming the specific metric that changed.
Architecture
Six connected elements: four engines, an evidence chain, one platform layer.
An independently commissioned novelty report confirms this combination of elements is not disclosed in the identified prior art, searched across patent literature and IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Google Scholar and Semantic Scholar.
Engine A
Compliance-to-Access Control Engine
Rule-based scoring against recognised frameworks (ISO 27001 controls, UK GDPR requirements, standard vendor due diligence points) outputs a compliance score and an approved, conditional or restricted access flag. Access is restricted automatically if a certification expires or a flagged issue goes unaddressed.
Engine B
Contract-to-Operational Rules Engine
A large language model with a fixed extraction prompt and schema extracts IP ownership, confidentiality, subcontracting, data usage and payment trigger clauses, then compares them against an expected-clause schema and flags the specific missing, ambiguous or unfavourable wording. Not a legal opinion.
Engine C
Intelligent Data Transfer Risk Gate
Data type and destination country are matched against a maintained table of transfer rules — UK GDPR adequacy status, standard contractual clause requirements and sector-specific restrictions — returning approve, deny or manual review. A rule lookup, not a predictive model.
Engine D
Evidence-Based Delivery Assurance Engine
Commit history, ticket and issue status, milestone completion against the contract schedule and communication response times feed a weighted scoring formula, producing a rolling delivery assurance score per vendor instead of vendor self-reporting.
Layer E
AI Governance Evidence Chain Framework
Every score, flag and access decision is logged with its inputs, the rule applied and a link back to the source document, data point or activity — a permanent, timestamped evidence chain so no output is an unexplainable AI decision.
Layer F
Unified Offshore Governance Intelligence Platform
The engines and evidence chain run as one connected system, so a change detected by one engine — a vendor certification expiring, for example — updates access permissions, contract flags and delivery scoring together.
Key Differentiators
Copying one engine is straightforward. The connected architecture is not.
No identified competitor combines vendor compliance scoring, contract clause extraction, data transfer validation and delivery assurance scoring into a single connected system. Switching cost grows with use, because a departing buyer loses the accumulated compliance history, contract-review record and delivery track record for every vendor they manage.
- Combined six-element architecture in one connected workflow, confirmed novel against identified prior art
- Proprietary compliance scoring rubric built from ISO 27001 and UK GDPR with direct legal domain input
- Contract clause taxonomy defining what counts as missing, ambiguous or risky in an offshore contract
- Named, committed technical leadership already in place, not a developer to be hired later
- Novelty opinion secured, patent to be filed once the architecture is validated in pilot
- Compounding vendor and delivery data asset accrued as a by-product of normal platform use
Market
A £36–37bn UK sector where offshore delivery has become permanent.
The UK IT outsourcing market was valued at around £36–37 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow 9.53% annually to roughly £53 billion by 2030. Offshore hubs such as India and the Philippines held 47.15% of 2025 revenue on cost advantage, while nearshore and Eastern European destinations grow fastest at 5.12% CAGR on time-zone alignment and long-term partnership.
$638.65bn
Global IT outsourcing market, 2026
3.32%
Global ITO market CAGR to $752.08bn by 2031
47.2%
Offshore share of 2025 sourcing revenue
72%
Cybersecurity and IT infrastructure outsourcing
Target audience
The buyer is a small or medium UK company that already has, or is hiring, offshore teams — offshoring either because UK developers cannot be found or afforded in time, or to reduce technology spend while continuing to ship.
- UK SMEs with 5–50 employees already offshoring
- Founders, operations directors and CTOs without in-house legal or procurement
- Software development and QA testing offshoring
- IT support and data processing teams
- Design work delivered offshore
- Vendors in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Vendors in Poland, Romania and Ukraine
Three-Year Plan
Build and pilot. Validated pricing. Wider UK sales.
The roadmap advances on triggers and evidence, not elapsed time. The plan is financed by a £50,000 founder injection, with monthly break-even in month twelve and closing cash never falling below approximately £13,900 across the three years.
Year 1
MVP Build and Pilot Validation
Phase 1 runs months 1 to 6: MVP build and pilot testing from month seven, with 2–3 named pilot customers live at month 6 and 8–12 paying customers by month 12. The CTO is the only salaried role; the two founders are unpaid.
~24
Active paying customers
~£36k
Revenue
~£20k
Net loss, founder-funded
Month 12
Monthly break-even
Year 2
Validated Pricing and Repeatable Onboarding
Subscriptions at validated pricing and repeatable onboarding, with UK segment expansion. Each hire is released by an operational trigger — customer volume, delivery data history or proven sales process — rather than elapsed time.
~£318k
Revenue
~£22k
Net profit
4–5
First hires, trigger-based
3
New permanent UK jobs
Year 3
Wider UK Sales and Ireland Entry
Wider UK sales and the first realistic hires. Ireland is entered conditionally on UK retention proof: shared GDPR structure and the same offshore destination countries let the transfer rule logic and clause taxonomy extend rather than be rebuilt.
~£704k
Revenue
~£86k
Net profit
11
Total roles
Ireland
First international market
Current Team
Commercial, legal and technical leadership already in place.
Moumita Saha Choudhury
Co-Founder and Commercial Lead
MSc in Digital Marketing (Liverpool John Moores University, 2022) with more than 10 years in SaaS commercial strategy, go-to-market execution and offshore workforce operations, most recently Chief Growth Officer at Tedekstra. Leads customer discovery, pricing, packaging, onboarding design and partnership development.
Mujtaba Haider
Co-Founder, Compliance and Legal Lead
Paralegal at Lexington Ashworth Solicitors, LLM (University of Bradford) and LLB, with direct experience across commercial, immigration, tax, civil and family law in Pakistan and the UK. Designs the compliance scoring rubric, weighting logic, clause extraction taxonomy and legal escalation thresholds.
Gourab Banerjee
Chief Technology Officer
14+ years in project and product management, agile delivery and implementation in Java, .NET and Python; MS in Information Technology (University of Glasgow); CSM, CSPO and PMP certified. Previously British Telecom and KPMG Global Services, currently managing over £2m of R&D funding at Invenics.
Phase 1 · Months 1 to 6
Be one of the first named pilot customers.
Phase 1 targets 2–3 named pilot customers live at month 6, with early pilots running at a discounted or free price to secure usage data and testimonials before paid conversion. Pilots evaluate one of your existing or recent vendor relationships, because a governance tool is more believable demonstrated against a real vendor than described in theory.
OffshoreAssure flags risk and supports operations. It does not provide legal advice or reserved legal activities.