Business Resources

Find out what request handling is really costing you.

Five questions, starting with the one nobody asks: who in your organisation actually ends up doing this work? No sign-up, and every assumption we make is shown and editable — because the answer is only useful if you can defend it to someone else.

Can we help? Let's find out Question 1 of 5

What kind of organisation are you?

Different sectors face different obligations — public bodies handle FOI as well as subject access, and the volume profile varies enormously.

And what's your role?

So we show you the part that's actually relevant to you. A finance director and a privacy manager need very different things out of this.

Who actually ends up doing this work?

This is the question that matters most, and the one almost nobody asks. Select everyone who gets pulled in — not just whose job it officially is.

Roughly what scale are we talking about?

Estimates are fine — nobody has these to hand, and you can change them on the next screen.

DSARs, and FOI requests too if they apply to you.
Full-time equivalent, counting only the portion of their time genuinely available for this.

Is the volume going up?

Across the organisations we talk to, roughly 20% a year is typical — and it's the single biggest thing missing from most compliance budgets.

Already being spent
per year, in staff time
Full-time equivalent
of your available capacity
Cost per request
what each one costs you today

For you

The part that isn't in the budget

Costs you're probably not counting

Based on who you told us actually does this work

    Our assumptions — change them

    These are estimates, not your numbers. Adjust them and everything above updates. We'd rather you took a figure to your finance team that you can defend than one of ours you can't.

    Total across everyone involved — locating, reviewing, redacting, responding. Routine requests can be 4–6 hours; genuinely complex ones run to 40 or more.
    Fully loaded, averaged across the people you selected. Pre-filled from your answers.
    After leave, training and everything else. 1,600 is a common planning figure.

    This is a directional estimate from the figures you entered, meant to show you where to look — not an audit. It deliberately excludes things we can't responsibly guess at, like regulatory exposure or the cost of a complaint, because inventing those numbers would make everything above easier to dismiss. A consultation is where you'd firm it up.

    Guides & Insights

    Written for compliance leads, HR, and CFOs

    Cost Guide

    How to calculate the true cost of a complex DSAR

    A worked example beyond the obvious staff-hours estimate.

    Regulation

    UK Data (Use and Access) Act: clock pause rules explained

    When the statutory clock can legitimately be paused — and when it can't.

    Honest Broker

    Why automated intake networks save HR 40+ hours per request

    The resourcing case for identity-verified, pre-scoped requests.

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