Chaperone keeps everything compliance in order.
Chaperone is the compliance system from Mitochondria. It manages your compliance documents, reads them, checks each one against the rules and standards that apply, and flags what does not hold, with a person confirming every call. It keeps regulated operations audit-ready, so external audits come round less often and cost less when they do.
Request a walkthrough →In a cell, a chaperone is a protein with one job: it helps other proteins fold into their correct shape, and stops them clumping into something harmful. It is the cell's own quality control, making sure each piece comes out right. Chaperone does the same for your compliance. It makes sure every document is in the right shape against the rule, catches the ones that are not, and keeps the whole picture sound. Everything compliance, in one system.
Compliance is manual, and the gaps surface at the worst time.
A regulated operation carries hundreds of compliance documents across departments, each with its own rule, renewal, and version. Keeping them right is manual work, the rules move underneath you, and the errors that matter slip in where a final document is edited by hand. They stay invisible until an external audit finds them, and by then they carry cost, lost time, and exposure.
Most of this is not a knowledge problem. The rules are known and the documents exist. It is a checking problem, and checking by hand does not hold at scale. Chaperone is the layer that does the checking.
It works the way a careful auditor would.
Chaperone reads each document, identifies the rule or standard it has to meet, and checks the two against each other. Where they agree it passes; where they do not it flags the gap, in plain language, for a person to confirm or correct. Every confirmation teaches it the house judgement, so the calls it brings you narrow over time to the ones that genuinely need a person.
Audit-ready, the whole time.
The manual checking that fills a compliance week comes off the desk, and readiness stops depending on a scramble before each visit. What that is worth depends on where you sit.
The checks that actually catch things.
These are checks we have built or modelled. The same pattern extends to any document that has to meet a rule you can state.
Cautious by design.
Compliance is a place for caution, so Chaperone is built to be checked, and your data is held the way the rules you answer to require.
We started where it is hardest.
Most compliance software begins with the documents that are easy to check. Chaperone was shaped against the opposite, regulated manufacturing, the version of the problem with the most rules and the most frequent audits. What holds there holds anywhere. The same system carries food, pharma, energy, and financial services, and for sustainability and ESG disclosure its sibling BRSR Close goes deeper still.
Start light. Widen as it earns it.
Compliance is no place to be reckless, so Chaperone starts where the risk is lowest and widens as your team watches it work.
Where you start, and how fast you widen, is something we size with you. Get in touch for the detail.
Worth asking.
How is this different from a document management system?
A document store keeps your files. Chaperone checks what is in them.
Document management tools store, version, and retrieve. Chaperone reads what the documents say, checks each against the rule it has to meet, and tells you where it fails. It sits on top of the store you already use rather than replacing it.
Does it replace our auditors or compliance team?
No. It does the checking so they can do the judgement.
Chaperone handles the repetitive reading and cross-checking that fills a compliance team's week, and brings the exceptions to a person. Your team makes the calls and signs off, with far less manual work to get there.
What can it check against?
Any rule you can state, from a regulation to your own policy.
Statutory rules, standards, licence conditions, internal policies, whatever a document has to meet. Where a rule is written down, Chaperone can be set to check against it. We work the rule set out with you.
Does it connect to where our documents already live?
Yes, through your existing document store.
Chaperone reads from the store you use, a shared drive or a document system, through its API. It verifies the documents rather than relocating them, so nothing moves and nothing is duplicated.
How does data work?
Your data stays in your environment, and is never used to train shared models.
Documents and checks are processed transiently, encrypted in transit and at rest. Your documents, rules, and records stay with you. The terms are set out in our DPA, aligned with GDPR, UK GDPR, and DPDP, and our own security runs to an ISO 27001-aligned ISMS.
What about ESG and BRSR reporting?
That has its own system, BRSR Close.
Sustainability and BRSR disclosure is specialised enough to deserve a dedicated tool, so it sits in BRSR Close rather than here. Chaperone covers the rest of your compliance, and the two share an architecture.
How quickly can it start?
The tracking base stands up fast. The checks follow.
The renewal and version base is quick to put live and useful immediately. The verification layer is scoped to your documents and rules, and widens as your team confirms its calls. We map the sequence on the walkthrough.