Compliance-fluent by default
Built to your own regulator's standard from day one — SRA, ICAEW, KCSIE, and GDPR/ICO — baked in, not sold as an extra, and documented in a published methodology rather than improvised per project.
Managed digital infrastructure for regulated practices
Built to your regulator's standard.
Custodiance runs your practice's web and email infrastructure as a managed estate — kept in UK and EU jurisdiction, compliant by default, and held by a named senior engineer who is personally accountable for it.
For: Law firms · Accountancy practices · Clinics · Schools
The idea
A website is something you buy once and worry about forever. Your digital estate is something a named, accountable expert holds and runs on your behalf — in-jurisdiction, to your regulator's standard, indefinitely. You stop owning a problem and gain a custodian.
Data sovereignty, in-jurisdiction
Client data and hosting stay within UK and EU jurisdiction by design, maintained continuously as a managed service — so you can answer where your data lives and who can reach it, without caveats.
A named, accountable CTO
A single senior technical partner is personally accountable for the estate. A name, not a ticket queue — a fractional CTO for a firm too small to hire one full-time.
The promise
Your firm's web and email infrastructure is built and maintained to your own regulator's standard as the starting point — not as a paid add-on — with your data and hosting kept in UK and EU jurisdiction, and a single named senior engineer personally accountable for it.
Custody, not marketing.
What it displaces
The faceless commodity agency and the disposable one-off website build — vendors who treat compliance, data residency and reliability as optional extras, host client data on undisclosed offshore systems, and leave no named person accountable when something goes wrong.
The right comparison is an outsourced IT or compliance function — not a web designer's quote.
Engagements
Growth
£1,495 per month
For an established practice that wants its web and email estate run properly — in-jurisdiction, with a named partner on call.
Embedded
From £6,000 per month · bespoke
For a practice that wants a fractional CTO embedded — owning the roadmap, the compliance posture, and the build.