Data Retention & Compliance Manager

Enterprise SaaS teams struggle to manage data retention policies across multiple systems (databases, S3, caches) especially when each customer has custom compliance requirements. A unified tool that orchestrates retention policies, deletion workflows, and audit logs across the entire stack would unblock enterprise deals with regulated industries.

GDPR, CCPA, and increasingly aggressive enforcement from EU data protection authorities have made "we'll handle it manually" untenable for any SaaS team selling into finance, healthcare, or government. BigID and OneTrust exist in the broader data governance space but are priced and architected for enterprise compliance teams, not the engineering side of a SaaS vendor trying to pass a security review — no clear incumbent owns the developer-facing, multi-tenant policy orchestration layer specifically. The $5k–25k/mo range is credible because this is a pure compliance unlock: buyers aren't evaluating ROI, they're unblocking a contract, which compresses sales cycles and justifies line-item budget. The biggest risk is that this is a professional services business wearing a SaaS costume — every customer's stack is different, every regulator's interpretation of "deletion" varies, and the customization burden quietly eats the margin before you can standardize anything.