Compliance, Surveillance & RegTech
B

bethebrand

bethebrand sells marketing compliance software to UK financial services firms. Marketing and compliance teams at insurers, building societies, banks and wealth managers use it to store approved assets, route promotions through approval and keep a permanent audit trail of every version, comment and sign off.

Its AI sits in SeeDynamic, a content checker that runs before a promotion reaches compliance. Fixed rules catch the explicit problems, such as barred words, missing risk warnings and poor readability. AI enabled rules, added in September 2026, catch the contextual ones: comparative or unsupported claims, ambiguous wording, undefined terms and contradictions. Each issue is flagged inside the document with the reason and a suggested fix, and a compliance report stays attached to the asset. Teams can also write a new rule in plain English. SeeDynamic runs on its own through a public API or inside the bethebrand platform.

The company has served regulated marketing teams for more than 20 years and has been owned by Software Circle plc since 2024. Named clients include Coventry Building Society, Just Group, Kensington Mortgages and The Cambridge Building Society.

Last VerifiedOctober 20, 2026
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London, United Kingdom
Categories
compliance-and-surveillance
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

15 of 15 axes rated · 7 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI Centrality
CC on AI CentralityArtificial intelligence is present but peripheral: a feature layer on a product whose value stands without it.
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The AI is an addition to a long running workflow platform rather than its core. bethebrand stores and versions marketing assets, routes them through approval and keeps the audit trail, and SeeDynamic checked content against fixed rules for years before AI enabled checks arrived in September 2026. Those checks handle the contextual judgments a keyword rule misses, such as a comparative claim or an ambiguous risk warning, and plain English rule writing runs on the same models.

Take the models away and the asset store, the approval workflow and the rules engine all keep working. The models do sit inside the review that decides whether a promotion goes live, rather than around it.

Autonomy and Oversight Model
BB on Autonomy and Oversight ModelA written commitment that the models work alongside human judgment, with real review surfaces, short of the full control structure: commonly the threshold at which the system stops or what happens after it is wrong.
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The sequencing is clear. SeeDynamic runs before a promotion reaches compliance, flags each issue inside the document with the reason and a suggested fix, and leaves the decision to people. Inside the platform its findings join a configurable approval workflow with named sign off steps, and the compliance report stays with the asset through to approval. bethebrand states that final sign off stays with a human.

Flags from the AI enabled rules carry no confidence score or threshold, and the standalone version returns findings with no approval step of its own, so the gate there is whatever process the firm already runs.

Model Risk Management and Transparency
CC on Model Risk Management and TransparencyTransparency is claimed in general terms with no mechanism a model validator could interrogate.
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Each finding explains what triggered it and which rule applied, and the compliance report records what was reviewed, what was flagged and what the team did. That explains individual flags without measuring the checker. Catch rate, miss rate and false positive rate are all unpublished for the AI enabled checks, and the vendor's pre release consistency testing reports no results. In promotions review the costly error is the issue the checker never raised, and bethebrand publishes no measure of what SeeDynamic misses.

Operational and Outcome Evidence
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceVendor aggregate claims with real figures, or audited scale disclosures from a publicly listed company.
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Coverage of named clients is solid. Coventry Building Society launched its system within three months and logged more than 240 active users and more than 2,600 asset revisions in 2018, and Just Group moved a library of over 2,200 assets and had more than 140 staff trained. Marketing leads at Police Mutual and Forces Mutual and at The Cambridge Building Society are quoted by name.

These figures measure adoption rather than results, and the 94 percent first time approval rate bethebrand cites is a platform wide figure tied to no client. No named client result covers the AI enabled checks yet, so what SeeDynamic adds to first time approvals at a given firm is still unmeasured in public.

AI Safety and Data Stewardship
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipGeneral assurances that do not answer the question this axis asks, which is whether one customer’s data trains models serving its competitors. Unbounded cross client learning stated with no boundary grades here too.
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The one stewardship term published for the AI is that uploaded files and their findings leave SeeDynamic after a month. bethebrand does not say whether client content trains or tunes the models behind its AI enabled checks, whether one firm's material can inform another firm's results, or what retention terms its model providers work under. For a tool that reads unpublished promotions, those are the questions to put in writing.

Regulatory and Compliance
GLBA and Data Privacy Posture
BB on GLBA and Data Privacy PostureA substantive privacy document that reaches the product itself, short of the subprocessor list or the full data handling detail.
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Under UK data protection law bethebrand is the controller for its website and sales contacts, while personal data loaded into a client's system falls under a separate data protection agreement that is not published, so the processor terms are not public. Its privacy policy says client data is deleted three months after a contract ends, and files uploaded to SeeDynamic are kept for a month and then deleted.

Security Certifications and Trust Center
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterA single footer line, or certifications asserted without being enumerated, which is weaker than naming them because it invites an assumption a buyer cannot check.
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bethebrand names no security certification, audit report or trust center in the text of its site. The plans page lists security as a feature without a standard behind it, and the footer badge row names no standard, edition or certifying body.

Regulatory Status and Licensure
CC on Regulatory Status and LicensureThe regulatory position is unstated. Most vendors in this index are technology suppliers and being unlicensed is the correct posture, so this grade records silence about the posture, not a missing license.
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Selling review software to regulated firms needs no license, and bethebrand holds no authorization from the Financial Conduct Authority. The rules its checks apply, including Consumer Duty and the senior managers regime, bind its clients rather than bethebrand itself.

AI Governance and Bias Disclosure
BB on AI Governance and Bias DisclosureAn independent demographic evaluation the vendor has submitted to, such as the NIST face evaluation class, or a governance framework with named process behind it.
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bethebrand describes a specific process for governing its models. Each AI enabled rule is tested repeatedly for consistent output before it reaches the platform, every new model version is tested before it goes into production, and the models run at temperature zero to cut variation between runs. The bias surface is narrow, since the checks judge marketing copy rather than people. Results of the consistency testing are not published.

AI Liability and Recourse
CC on AI Liability and RecourseMechanisms that enable challenge, such as audit trails and source traceability, with nothing standing behind the output and no route for the person affected.
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The published terms cover the bethebrand website only and exclude liability for anything on it, and the platform contract is not public. What stands behind an AI finding is an audit trail. The compliance report attached to each asset records what was checked, against which rules and what was done, so a firm can evidence a review. bethebrand's own material says accountability stays with the firm's named individuals under the senior managers regime and that an AI generated check is no defence, which places the loss with the client. Nothing describes what the vendor owes when SeeDynamic misses an issue.

Integration and Deployment
Model Supply Chain Disclosure
CC on Model Supply Chain DisclosureThe architecture is described and no provider is named.
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SeeDynamic builds on existing AI models chosen task by task, and bethebrand says it controls their parameters and tests each new model version before release. It names no model, provider or version. Amazon Web Services hosting identifies where SeeDynamic runs, not whose models it calls.

Core Systems and Integration Depth
BB on Core Systems and Integration DepthNamed systems or a documented public API, with the depth or the production evidence left open.
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SeeDynamic has a public API with developer documentation, so a firm can send files from its own asset manager or approval system and get findings back, provided file metadata is mapped to SeeDynamic's product tags. It also runs inside the bethebrand platform, where findings attach to the asset and feed its reports. The platform handles video and audio markup and bulk approvals. bethebrand names no specific asset management, content management or sign in integration.

Deployment Model and Data Residency
BB on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyStated residency commitments or regional hosting options.
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bethebrand is cloud software. Its privacy policy places the application's hosting in the UK and states that no data is transferred out of the country, and SeeDynamic runs on Amazon Web Services. The models behind the AI enabled checks are not named, so whether content leaves the UK while those checks run is not stated, and the Amazon Web Services region for SeeDynamic is not given either.

Commercial
Commercial Transparency
CC on Commercial TransparencyNo price is published and engagement runs through a demo form, which is the norm in this index.
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Prices are not published. The plans page describes each module, from the asset store to SeeDynamic, and routes every buyer to a pricing request. SeeDynamic offers a free trial booked through a sales scheduler. How SeeDynamic is priced on its own, and whether the AI enabled checks cost extra, is not stated.

Institution and Segment Coverage
AA on Institution and Segment CoverageThe financial segments served are named and each carries its own maintained material, whether the coverage is broad or deliberately narrow.
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Clients cover most of UK retail financial services. Allianz, Royal London and Hastings Direct are among the insurers, Coventry and Cambridge among the building societies, and The Co-operative Bank, Quilter Cheviot, Openwork and Just Group bring in banking, wealth, advice and retirement. A packaged financial promotions solution is built for firms the Financial Conduct Authority regulates, and SeeDynamic ships with a rule library drawn from its guidance.

That is also the limit of the claim, since the built in rules cover one regulator and a firm outside the UK would be writing its own. A few clients outside finance, British Gas among them, use the asset and workflow platform.

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