ECCTA Defence File Pilot pricing
The pilot is priced for a focused first implementation: scope posture, evidence gaps, associated-person attestations, human review, and board/adviser handoff. DefenceFile organises evidence for legal and compliance review. It does not provide legal advice, create privilege, certify scope, certify reasonable procedures, or guarantee that a statutory defence will succeed.
Pilot package
If the first working session does not produce the agreed workflow artifacts, the setup fee is waived.
Deliberately introductory founding-cohort pricing for early ECCTA pilots, set low to make the first internal step easy to approve.
After the 90-day pilot, continuation is month-to-month at GBP 950/month with no annual lock-in, and the founding-cohort monthly rate is held for 12 months from the pilot start. After that, the rate is reviewed at most once a year and any change is capped at UK CPI. Cancel in any month and export your board pack, evidence register, audit trail, and unresolved blocker list.
Signed order terms control any live engagement. The public page is a pricing summary for buyer review, not self-serve checkout.
Included in the pilot
Large-organisation prompts, UK nexus notes, uncertainty flags, reviewer ownership, and adviser-review reminders.
Evidence mapped to the six Home Office fraud-prevention principles with open blockers kept visible.
Draft classifications stay draft until a named reviewer records approval, rejection, or requested changes.
A board-pack readiness view that separates completed work, unresolved gaps, and legal-review points.
Review the first-session agenda, demo-tenant screenshots, buyer inputs, and expected 90-day outputs before requesting access.
Cost context
These figures are not like-for-like alternatives and should not be treated as procurement advice. They are included only where the figure was recorded in discovery and could be tied to a dated public source.
A course seat is not a defence-file operating layer; it is a useful marker for training spend that may sit beside evidence operations.
GBP 595 per person
Source: Redcliffe Training public course page, accessed 2026-06-10.
Vendr is a third-party procurement benchmark, not AuditBoard list pricing or an ECCTA-specific quote.
USD 45,895 median annual contract value
Source: Vendr AuditBoard pricing benchmark, accessed 2026-06-10.
Vendr is a third-party procurement benchmark; broad GRC suites are not equivalent to a focused 90-day DefenceFile pilot.
USD 50k-90k typical annual contract range
Source: Vendr LogicGate pricing benchmark, accessed 2026-06-10.
Buyer FAQ
The pilot is deliberately bounded: evidence operations, workflow artifacts, and human review trails. Legal interpretation remains with counsel and advisers.
No. DefenceFile organises evidence for legal and compliance review. It does not provide legal advice, create privilege, certify scope, certify reasonable procedures, or guarantee that a statutory defence will succeed.
The first working session produces five workflow artifacts: a scope posture screen, evidence gap map, associated-person attestation chase list, named review queue, and board-pack blocker list. If any of these are not delivered, the setup fee is waived — see the guarantee FAQ below.
If the first working session does not produce the agreed workflow artifacts, the setup fee is waived. The guarantee does not provide legal advice, create privilege, certify scope, certify reasonable procedures, or guarantee that a statutory defence will succeed.
After the 90-day pilot, continuation is month-to-month at GBP 950/month with no annual lock-in, and the founding-cohort monthly rate is held for 12 months from the pilot start. After that, the rate is reviewed at most once a year and any change is capped at UK CPI. Cancel in any month and export your board pack, evidence register, audit trail, and unresolved blocker list.
The pilot is deliberately priced to clear internal approval without a full procurement cycle — the 90-day scope is narrow by design. A focused ECCTA defence-file engagement is not the same product as a broad enterprise GRC suite. The cost anchors below are context for internal comparison only, not equivalent products.
No annual lock-in applies at any point. Before the pilot ends, you can export the board-pack workpaper, evidence register, audit trail, and unresolved blocker list — the file is yours regardless of what happens next.
Treat the pilot as a security and procurement review before sensitive evidence is shared. Public trust pages describe the current product posture; signed customer terms and DPA schedules control live commitments.
Review security postureUse qualified advisers for legal interpretation, privilege, procedure design, and hard judgment calls. DefenceFile is the operating layer around that advice: collection, review state, source lineage, attestations, blockers, and handoff.
Compare advisory-only routeA broad GRC platform may fit enterprise control programmes. DefenceFile is deliberately narrower: a 90-day ECCTA defence-file pilot focused on scope posture, evidence gaps, associated-person follow-up, human review, and board/adviser handoff.
Compare generalist GRC routeNext step
The request form asks for fit context only. Keep privileged analysis and source documents out of the public request until procurement, security, and legal boundaries are agreed.