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As an agency, privacy compliance is both an obligation and an opportunity. Every client website you build or maintain is potentially in scope for GDPR. Having a repeatable workflow saves time and protects you from liability.
Here's the workflow we recommend.
Step 1: Onboard every client into a shared audit system
The first thing to solve is visibility. Using separate spreadsheets per client doesn't scale. Set up a single compliance management tool where each client has their own project, with their own scan history, findings, and task list.
PrivacyAudit's Agency plan lets you manage up to 50 client projects from a single dashboard.
Step 2: Run baseline scans on all clients
Once clients are onboarded, run a baseline scan on every site. This gives you an immediate picture of where each client stands — what's missing, what's misconfigured, and what risk severity each finding carries.
Sort clients by risk level. Focus remediation effort on the highest-risk ones first.
Step 3: Build a remediation task list per client
Convert each scan finding into a concrete task. Assign severity (critical, high, medium, low), a due date, and if relevant — a team member to handle it.
Add evidence capture to each task: screenshots of the cookie banner, confirmation of DPAs signed, updated privacy policy drafts.
Step 4: Generate a compliance report
At the end of an audit cycle, generate a PDF report for your client. It should show: what was found, what's been remediated, and what's still outstanding.
This serves as both a client deliverable and an audit trail for the agency. If a client is later investigated by a regulator, you have documented evidence of due diligence.
Step 5: Schedule re-scans
Compliance isn't a one-time project. Every time a client changes their website — adds a new analytics tool, builds a new landing page, integrates a new service — the compliance status may change.
Set a schedule to re-scan client sites monthly or after any significant release.
The business case for agencies
Formalising privacy compliance as a service is a high-value recurring revenue opportunity. Clients often don't know where to start and appreciate having it handled. An Agency plan at $59/month across even 10 clients is easy to justify as a line item in a monthly retainer.