In development — founding pilot now open · Built for UK GDPR & the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025

Respond to subject access requests without the panic.

A subject access request gives someone the right to their personal data in every record you hold — with one calendar month to respond. SARequest finds it, redacts it, and assembles a complete response pack ready for your sign-off, so a request that used to cost thousands and weeks takes an afternoon to review.

No card required · UK-hosted · Founding pilot now open

£4,000–7,500
typical cost of one contested employee SAR, done manually
1 month
statutory deadline — extendable only for complex or multiple requests
~50%
of UK organisations miss the SAR deadline
+43%
year-on-year rise in data subject requests
The problem

One request. Years of data. One month.

When a current or former employee — or a customer, or a member of the public — submits a SAR, someone has to drop everything and respond. Get it wrong and it's an ICO complaint or a tribunal exhibit.

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Everything, however old

There's no time limit on a SAR. Every email, file, chat message and HR record you've ever kept on the person is potentially in scope — scattered across every system you run.

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Redaction is the hard part

Other people's data has to be removed before disclosure. A black box over text that's still copyable underneath is a data breach — and one of the most common ways SARs go wrong.

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The clock is statutory

One calendar month to respond. Miss it and you're exposed — yet nearly half of organisations do, because manual searching and redaction simply takes too long.

How it works

You stay in control. We do the heavy lifting.

Every document — pulled from your systems or scanned in — is screened automatically: what's relevant, what needs blacking out, what can be withheld. Nothing is sent until you've signed it off.

Log & verify

Record the request, start the statutory clock, and confirm the requester's identity — the safeguard that stops data going to the wrong person.

Search

Connect your systems once. SARequest searches everything you've connected for records relating to the individual, however far back they go — and scanned paper records can be uploaded and made searchable too.

Redact & review

Third-party details are redacted and exemptions flagged for your review — with the reasoning shown, so you decide what stands.

Deliver & prove

Send a clean response pack by secure link, with a full audit trail evidencing a reasonable and proportionate search.

What's covered

Electronic records, scanned paper, and CCTV requests.

SARequest works on your electronic records. Paper files remain your responsibility to locate — but once scanned and uploaded, they're searched and redacted like everything else.

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Connected systems

Microsoft 365 first — Outlook, Teams, OneDrive and SharePoint in one connection. On the roadmap, shaped by pilot demand: Slack, UK HR systems (BreatheHR, PeopleHR, BambooHR), Xero, and more.

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Upload portal for everything else

Scanned paper records, exports from systems we don't connect to yet, or one-off files — drop them in and they become searchable and redactable alongside your electronic records. A checklist step records what offline sources you've checked.

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CCTV & body-worn video

A guided workflow for footage requests: checks your retention window, prompts the requester for dates and locations, and handles third-party face and number-plate blurring through a specialist redaction engine before disclosure.

Your data

Connected only when you need it. Erased when you're done.

You'd be letting us near your most sensitive records, often during a dispute. Here's exactly how that works — and where it stops.

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You connect — we read a copy

Connect Microsoft 365 once, or grant access per request if you prefer. We only ever read a copy to answer a live request — your own systems are never changed, and nothing is touched between requests.

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We process — you decide

The search and first-pass redaction run automatically. Every decision — what's disclosed, what's withheld — is yours to approve before anything is sent. Our team has no routine access to your case content.

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We erase — you stay in control

When the request is closed, the source data is purged. You choose how long the finished response pack is kept. Every step is logged as your audit trail.

When is your response due?

Free tool. Enter the date you received the request and get your statutory deadline — including how the new "stop the clock" rules can affect it.

  • Based on UK GDPR & the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
  • Accounts for the one calendar month rule
  • Flags when a complexity extension may apply
Founding pilot

Built with a handful of organisations, not just for them.

A contested employee SAR costs £4,000–7,500 to handle by hand. We're building the tool that turns it into an afternoon's review — and shaping it around the first organisations who join.

Founding pilot — now open
  • Handle every subject access request in one place
  • Microsoft 365 connection + upload portal for scanned paper & other files
  • Automated search of electronic records & suggested redactions
  • CCTV / body-worn video request workflow
  • Statutory deadline tracking with stop-the-clock
  • Secure delivery & full audit trail
  • UK-hosted · data purged on a schedule you control
Apply to join the pilot
No card, no commitment. We'll only build it if enough organisations want it — pilot members shape what we ship and get first access at launch.
Security & trust

A compliance tool that's actually compliant.

You'd be connecting us to your most sensitive data, often during a dispute. That's why security isn't a feature here — it's the foundation.

Yes — SARequest reads data in the systems you connect. Access is granted by you, scoped to what a live case requires, and revocable at any time
UK / EU hosting only — your data never leaves the region
We're a pipeline, not an archive — source data purged on case close
You control how long the finished pack is retained
Identity verification enforced before any data is released
True, destructive redaction — never a black box over live text
Your data is never used to train AI models
Our team has no routine access to your case content — any access is least-privilege, logged and exceptional
Every action logged for your audit trail
Data Processing Agreement with every customer

Got a SAR on your desk right now?

Join the founding pilot. Tell us how you handle SARs today, and help shape the tool that makes the next one painless.

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