Awesome Raises €1.2m for Collaborative Compliance AI Platform

Awesome Compliance Technology (Awesome) has raised a €1.2m pre-Seed round led by Horizon Flevoland, for a new collaborative AI platform, which handles compliance needs for GDPR, the EU AI Act, and the Data Act, among other regulations, (see AL interview with co-founder Dick Sterk, below.)

The Dutch startup said that their approach is different to other companies in the market because it’s focused not just on leveraging AI, but seeks to drive collaboration – a top theme at the moment. It also provides domain-specific AI agents to ‘collect facts, structure ROPAs, draft DPIAs, assess AI Act risks, and produce contracts and policies’.

And it also ‘allows firms to productize parts of their expertise into repeatable offerings’ – which sounds like a great approach.

Awesome ‘is built for and by the people who carry the responsibility of interpreting complex regulations and turning them into practical compliance advice,’ they noted, and added that with their approach we should ‘forget the idea of AI as an assistant or humans as mere supervisors. Awesome [is] an equal partnership in which both sides sharpen each other. The expert brings nuance and context; the AI brings speed and structure; together, they achieve what neither could accomplish alone. That is the future of compliance.’

Marianne de Feijter, co-founder and CEO, (pictured with fellow co-founders Roel Wessels and Dick Sterk), commented: ‘We built Awesome for the people actually doing the work: privacy and AI lawyers, compliance consultants, DPOs and in-house legal teams. Our platform lets them move faster, collaborate better, think deeper, and free up time for high-strategic compliance work. It enables them to take on more clients without increasing their workload while adding a new revenue stream.’

They will use the €1.2m pre-Seed cash to expand its engineering and legal operations teams, and expand the business geographically.

AL Interview with co-founder Dick Sterk

Why do we need this?

Because legal and compliance work is increasingly constrained by coordination and delivery overhead, not by lack of expertise. Professionals spend disproportionate time on gathering inputs, aligning with clients, managing versions, and translating analysis into usable outcomes. This platform removes that friction by combining expert judgment, intelligent support, and a shared client portal.

The portal changes the economics of professional services. It allows firms to productize parts of their expertise into repeatable offerings, move from one off projects to ongoing compliance subscriptions, and serve more clients without linear growth in headcount. It also enables premium advisory layers on top of standardized foundations, creating new revenue streams without commoditizing expertise.

Why now?

Compliance has become a continuous obligation rather than an episodic exercise. Frameworks like GDPR and the AI Act require ongoing governance, documentation, and explainability, often involving multiple stakeholders over time.

At the same time, large language models have matured enough to support structured reasoning and drafting at professional quality, if they are embedded in the right way. The missing piece has been a secure, auditable workspace where experts, AI, and clients collaborate around shared context. The convergence of regulatory pressure, mature AI, and the need for scalable service models makes this the right moment.

Which LLMs are you using and what are you adding to what they can do?

We use best in class foundation models and remain model agnostic, selecting models based on task sensitivity, performance, and client requirements.

On top of that, we add what general models lack for professional use: structured workflows, domain specific legal and compliance schemas, persistent matter context, traceability of sources and decisions, and a collaborative portal that keeps professionals and clients aligned on inputs, progress, and outcomes. The intelligence is not just in the model, but in how judgment, structure, and collaboration are designed around it.

Will this cover the UK and US as well?

Yes, though not yet. The platform is jurisdiction aware rather than jurisdiction specific. We start with EU frameworks because of their complexity and global reach, and our current focus is Europe. The underlying architecture supports UK and US regimes as well, with jurisdiction specific knowledge and templates added without changing how professionals work. This makes the platform suitable for cross border practices and international firms as coverage expands.

Thanks and congrats on the raise!

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You can find out more about Awesome here.

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