Privacy assessments · PIA · DPIA · risk reviews
Screen new products, vendors, technologies and data uses through one guided workflow. Captain Compliance helps identify the appropriate assessment, coordinate stakeholder input, document mitigation and preserve the evidence behind every decision.
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Dynamic risk screeningAI-assisted workflowsHuman-approved decisions
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Start with the project, not a blank form
Describe the work. Captain helps determine what comes next.
A product manager may not know whether a project requires a PIA, DPIA, transfer review or another assessment. Captain begins with plain-English screening questions and uses the answers to surface the workflows that may be appropriate. Teams that already know what they need can launch an assessment directly.
Guided screening
Answer a short series of questions about the project, people, data, technology, vendors and intended use. Captain surfaces the assessments that may be appropriate based on those answers.
Direct assessment
Select a PIA, DPIA, TIA, LIA or another available workflow and begin with the appropriate template, skipping screening entirely.
// Screening helps identify assessments that may be appropriate. It does not determine what the law requires
One platform, different kinds of risk
Not every project needs the same assessment.
PIA
Evaluate how a new product, process or system collects, uses, shares, retains and protects personal information.
DPIA
Document high-risk processing, necessity and proportionality, potential effects on individuals and measures intended to reduce risk.
U.S. Data Protection Assessment
Evaluate processing that may create heightened or significant privacy risk under applicable U.S. state requirements.
TIA
Examine international data transfers, destination-country considerations, contractual protections and supplementary measures.
LIA
Document the purpose, necessity and balancing analysis behind reliance on legitimate interests.
Vendor Assessment
Review how a service provider handles personal data, its role, safeguards, subprocessors and contractual obligations.
Children’s Privacy Assessment
Evaluate age-related risks, parental or guardian requirements, data minimization and protections for younger users.
Automated Decision Assessment
Examine profiling, significant decisions, transparency, potential bias, individual rights and human-review controls.
Configurable without becoming complicated
Your program, your questions, your approval rules.
Start with structured assessment workflows and adapt them to your organization’s policies, risk model and review process.
Custom templates
Create and maintain assessment templates for different jurisdictions, teams, products and risk categories.
Branching logic
Show or hide questions based on earlier responses so stakeholders only see what is relevant.
Risk rules
Configure risk indicators, escalation thresholds and required review steps.
Collaborative ownership
Assign individual questions, evidence requests and remediation actions to the people who know the system.
Review and approval
Route assessments through privacy, legal, security, procurement or business approval paths.
Structured reports
Generate consistent assessment records showing responses, evidence, risks, mitigation, decisions and approvals.
AI-assisted, human-approved
Let AI prepare the work — not make the final decision.
Captain’s AI assessment agents can help organize information already available to your privacy program, prepare draft responses, summarize supporting evidence, highlight missing information and suggest questions or mitigation for human review.
// Assessment owners remain responsible for validating the information, evaluating the risk and approving the final decision. The AI does not provide legal advice or determine compliance.
Connected to the evidence you already maintain
Assessments should not begin from zero.
With configured integrations and client-provided information, Captain can reuse relevant context from your privacy program instead of asking teams to repeatedly enter the same facts.
Data mapRoPASystem inventoryVendor recordsData flowsPolicies and controlsPrevious assessmentsAI use-case inventoryUploaded evidence
Information can be suggested or prefilled where available, but users review it before it becomes part of the assessment.
The workflow
From project intake to an accountable decision.
The comparison
More than a questionnaire that becomes a PDF.
A static assessment process
- ×Blank forms
- ×Repeated questions
- ×Email follow-ups
- ×Disconnected evidence
- ×Unclear ownership
- ×Point-in-time reports
- ×Mitigation tracked elsewhere
Captain Compliance
- ✓Guided screening
- ✓Conditional questions
- ✓Connected program context
- ✓Assigned contributors
- ✓Trackable remediation
- ✓Human approval history
- ✓Versioned assessment record
Outcomes
Move faster without weakening the review.
Reduce assessment bottlenecks
Give business teams a clear intake and give privacy teams a consistent review process.
Ask better questions
Use conditional workflows to focus attention on the facts that materially affect risk.
Close the loop on findings
Turn identified risk into assigned, trackable mitigation rather than leaving it inside a report.
Preserve the decision trail
Maintain responses, evidence, changes, reviewers and approvals in one assessment record.
Software and support
Software when you can move independently. Expert help when you need it.
Clients can run assessments through the platform or request support from Captain Compliance when the scope, legal framework or risk requires additional attention. Professional assistance is optional support alongside the software, not a replacement for legal counsel.
Questions teams ask
Privacy assessments, answered plainly.
What is the difference between a PIA and a DPIA?
A PIA is a broader privacy-risk review of how a product, process or system handles personal information. A DPIA is a more structured assessment associated with processing likely to result in high risk under the GDPR and similar frameworks, covering necessity, proportionality, effects on individuals and risk-reduction measures.
How does Captain determine which assessment we need?
Guided screening asks plain-English questions about the project and surfaces the workflows that may be appropriate based on your answers. You can also select an assessment directly. The platform surfaces potentially relevant workflows — determining which legal requirements apply remains your responsibility.
Can we customize assessment templates?
Yes. Create and maintain templates per jurisdiction, team, product or risk category, with branching logic, configurable risk indicators and escalation thresholds, assigned ownership per question, and your own review and approval paths.
Which assessments does Captain support?
PIA, DPIA, U.S. Data Protection Assessment, Transfer Impact Assessment, Legitimate Interests Assessment, vendor privacy assessment, children’s privacy assessment, automated decision-making assessment and AI impact assessment workflows.
Can assessment answers be prefilled?
Yes. Configured integrations and client-provided records can suggest or prefill relevant information from your data map, RoPA, system inventory, vendor records, previous assessments and uploaded evidence. Users review anything suggested before it becomes part of the assessment.
How does the AI assessment agent help?
It drafts responses from intake information, summarizes supporting evidence, detects missing information, organizes what is already available and suggests potential mitigation. People review and approve all substantive conclusions.
Can we track remediation?
Yes. Risks become assigned actions with owners, due dates, status and supporting evidence, and residual risk is reviewed once mitigation is complete rather than left in a report.
Can Captain help us complete an assessment?
You can complete workflows independently in the platform, or request additional professional support when scope, legal framework or risk warrants it.
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Turn privacy review into a workflow your business can actually use.
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Captain Compliance provides privacy technology, implementation, monitoring, documentation and technical support. It does not provide legal advice and does not replace legal counsel. Whether a particular assessment is legally required depends on your practices, jurisdictions and processing.