For HR consultancies and employment solicitors
Handbook reviews,
cited to the statute.
Complian drafts an employment-law gap analysis from your client's handbook and contracts. Every finding quotes the legislation and the client's own document, word for word. You review and sign off each one, then export a Word report under your firm's name.
The sample is real engine output on a fictional 40-person employer, reviewed by a fictional adviser.
The problem
A handbook written before April 2026
needs checking again.
The Employment Rights Act 2025 is coming into force in stages. Since 6 April 2026:
- statutory sick pay is payable from the first day of sickness, including to lower earners;
- unpaid parental leave and paternity leave are day-one rights;
- employers must keep annual leave records for six years, and failing to is a criminal offence;
- a disclosure about sexual harassment can be a protected disclosure;
- the maximum protective award for failing to consult on collective redundancies doubled to 180 days.
From 1 January 2027 the qualifying period for ordinary unfair dismissal falls from two years to six months. Every change, with its commencement citation →
Checking a handbook against all of that is careful, repetitive work. Each policy is read against each provision, both are quoted, and the gaps are written up for the client.
Most of that is assembly, not judgement. Complian does the first draft of it and shows its sources, so your time goes on the findings that need an adviser.
How it works
Upload, review, sign off.
Your judgement, our first draft.
01
Upload the client’s documents
The staff handbook, contract templates, payslips and leave records. PDF, Word or plain text.
02
Answer three questions
Longest service, whether redundancies are proposed, and whether 20 or more at one establishment. Obligations that do not apply are set aside with the reason and the statute quoted, and dated where the exclusion will lapse.
03
Review cited findings
Each obligation is drafted as Met, Partial, Missing or Unclear, with the passage from the client’s document and the legislation, word for word. Accept, edit or reject each one.
04
Export under your name
When every finding has your decision, export a Word report with your firm’s logo, marked as reviewed by you. Rejected findings are left out and your edits are marked.
The review gate
Nothing reaches your client
until you have signed off every line.
Every quotation is verified.
Each quote is checked word for word against the legislation and the client’s document. What cannot be verified is shown as Unclear, never hidden.
A Met needs evidence.
An obligation is only shown as met when the finding cites a verified passage from the client’s own documents.
Documents are data, not instructions.
Client documents reach the AI inside marked boundaries and are treated as untrusted, so text in a handbook cannot steer the analysis.
Nothing leaves without you.
The export stays locked until every finding has your decision, and the review history cannot be rewritten.
Dated, and cited.
Every report states the date it was assessed against. Commencement dates and qualifying periods are cited to the legislation that sets them.
You hold the pen.
You can change a finding’s status, assessment and recommended action. You cannot change the legislation it quotes.
What it covers
24 employer obligations.
England. Dated.
In force
17 core duties under the Employment Rights Act 1996, from written particulars and itemised pay to notice, dismissal and redundancy, and the 7 Employment Rights Act 2025 changes now in force. Each is cited in the legislation it amends: the Employment Rights Act 1996, the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, the Working Time Regulations 1998 and the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.
Not assessed
Provisions not yet in force, which each report lists. Employers in Wales and Scotland, which our rules do not yet cover. How a client operates in practice: Complian assesses what the documents say.
Sample report
See a reviewed report
before you see a demo.
Hollowmere Coffee Roasters is a fictional 40-person employer with four fictional documents: a staff handbook, a contract template, a payslip template and an annual leave records extract. The adviser, Wrenfield Employment Advisory, is fictional too. The findings are real engine output, reviewed in the demo by accepting, editing and rejecting them.
Pilot
A pilot for advisory firms.
Five client reports over one month, each reviewed and signed off by you, for £500.
Invoiced by bank transfer. No subscription, and nothing to install.
- Before any pilot firm receives output, the employment rule set is reviewed by an independent employment-law specialist.
- Every pilot firm signs a data processing agreement with us.
- You can delete documents or whole clients at any time.
Questions
What advisers ask first.
Is this legal advice?
No. Complian drafts findings for a qualified adviser to review. The report your client receives is your work, reviewed and signed off by you.
Who is responsible for the advice to my client?
You are. Complian supports your review; it does not advise your clients, and nothing can be exported until you have decided on every finding.
What happens to my client’s documents?
You are the controller and we act as your processor under a data processing agreement. Excerpts go to Anthropic for analysis and to no other AI provider. You can delete documents or a whole client at any time. See our privacy policy and trust page.
How accurate is it?
We are measuring it on a labelled set of fictional handbooks and will publish exactly what was measured, including how often an obligation was wrongly marked as met. Until then we make no accuracy claim. Every quotation is verified, and every finding is reviewed by you.
Does it cover Scotland or Wales?
The rule set currently covers employers in England. That is the scope of our rules, not a statement about where the law applies.
What about changes not yet in force?
Reports assess what is in force on the date you choose. Provisions not yet in force are listed in each report as not assessed. See what is in force and what is coming.