Comparison · for a company documenting itself

Doing it yourself compared with hiring an outsourced DPO

A service does the work and keeps the knowledge. This is the same work done inside your company, with the facts staying yours. Which is right depends on how much of it there is and who signs it off.

Serving other organisations rather than your own? The same comparison for a practice.

	clausebench	An outsourced DPO service
What is bought	Software your own people run	The work, done by somebody else's team
Where the facts live	In your workspace, confirmed once and reused	With the provider, and they leave when the contract does
Turnaround on a customer's questionnaire	You answer it the same day from what is already confirmed	You wait for their queue
Cost basis	A plan, published on our pricing page	A retainer, usually per month per engagement
Judgement and sign-off	Yours, and the product never pretends to give it	Theirs, and that is part of what you pay for
When a service is the better buy	—	Nobody in the company can own this at all, or you need a named DPO on the register

Which one suits you

Choose clausebench if

You are the practice and want to serve more clients
The documents must carry your brand

Choose An outsourced DPO service if

You are a company with nobody to do this in-house
You would rather buy the outcome than the tooling

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