The right people

doing the right work.

That's the whole goal.

The Compliance Edit

Compliance programs accumulate work the way organizations accumulate processes: gradually, without design, and almost never with a deliberate decision on when to stop. The Compliance Edit is the structured audit that changes that.

You’ve meant to take a hard look at your program for years. But there’s always another fire, and the evaluation never happens. The Compliance Edit is that evaluation—done properly, from the outside, so it actually gets done. Every output your program produces—training, reporting, communications, monitoring, vendor-delivered services—is evaluated against four questions:

  1. What specific requirement in the Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs does this satisfy?

  2. Is there evidence it's working?

  3. Is the time and cost proportionate to the value?

  4. Is this something the program could stop doing altogether?

Every output gets one of three recommendations: continue, change scope, or stop.

Your result is a compliance program doing fewer things, better—and a compliance leader who can explain exactly why to anyone who asks, including the people who control the budget.

And because programs evolve, the recommendations aren't just a snapshot. They're a plan for where your program's time and resources should focus next—grounded in your organization's actual risks, not a generic template.

Engagements run across three tiers depending on your program's size, complexity, and appetite for ongoing work. All three follow the same methodology and produce the same core deliverables: a findings report and a leadership-ready presentation built to support the internal conversation about what stays, what changes, and what stops.

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    The Compliance Edit opens to a small number of programs at a time. Get on the list and we’ll reach out when the next spot’s available.

Good resources

The Field Guide to Compliance is a publication for practitioners thinking carefully about how the field works and where it falls short.

The Ultimate Compliance Job Description replaces credential-heavy job description language with capability-first frameworks for every career level.