Compliance alternative: not just reporting trackers, but solving them

Complianty has a clear, strong focus: monitoring. The tool scans your clients’ websites every night in two phases – before and after consent is given – and detects trackers, scripts and third-party requests that fire before the visitor has given their consent. This is precisely the costly mistake that most agency setups overlook.

Added to this is a well-designed agency dashboard:

• Nightly scans across all clients, with a diff comparison between two points in time
• Alerts via email and in the app as soon as a new tracker appears or consent behaviour changes
• Processing register in accordance with Article 30 of the GDPR, automatically generated from the detected tools, including PDF export with a signature line
• Client overview with status per client, without having to click through every project
• Hosting in Germany and an affordable entry point – according to the provider, the Starter plan starts at €19/month for 5 clients

For agencies or data protection officers who need to keep track of numerous websites, Complianty offers a clean, fairly priced early warning system. That’s genuinely impressive – and the starting point for the crucial question in the next section.

Imagine a typical Monday morning: Compliance has run a scan overnight and is telling you that Customer A’s website is now loading Google Maps and a Meta pixel before the visitor has given their consent. It’s good to know. But now the real work begins – and it’s entirely up to you:

• You need to integrate a consent tool that actually blocks these scripts before consent is given – not just a banner that looks decorative whilst the scripts are already loading in the background.
• You need to update the privacy policy because a new service has been added.
• You have to repeat this process individually for every affected client.

This is exactly where BlueOcean Privacy AI comes in. We don’t just provide the findings, but the solution within the same stack:

• A cookie banner that actually blocks content before consent is given – scripts are held back until consent has been given. This means the ‘tracker-before-consent’ violation doesn’t even occur in the first place.
• An AI privacy policy that grows with you: if a new service appears on the site, it is detected and the policy updates automatically – instead of you having to maintain it manually.
• A tracker scanner that shows you – like a monitoring tool – what’s running, plus the multi-client cockpit to control everything in one place.

In short: compliance is largely about monitoring. BlueOcean closes the loop from detection to resolution – turning ‘problem reported’ into ‘problem solved’.

Fair comparison: In terms of pure monitoring functions, both are very similar; Complianty’s Article 30 directory is a real plus point, and both are hosted in Germany. When it comes to basic monitoring, Complianty also offers a lower starting price. The difference with BlueOcean lies not in the price, but in the scope of services: the €49 plan includes not only monitoring but also remediation – the blocking banner and the adaptive privacy policy are included directly without the need for a second tool.

Complianty is the right choice if you already have your own consent tool and data protection workflow under control and, above all, need an early warning system plus Article 30 documentation that centrally monitors multiple websites. If you’re purely looking for affordable monitoring, the starting price of €19 per month (according to the provider) is also attractive. That makes it a solid option.

BlueOcean Privacy AI is the right choice if you don’t just want to know that a tracker is firing before consent is given, but want to prevent it from doing so in the first place – and have the privacy policy included as well. For web agencies and freelancers who don’t want to juggle two tools (monitoring here, banners there), the bundled stack is the key: scan, block, document – all in one place, hosted in Germany, with no per-domain surcharge, from €49/month for 5 clients. You pay no less than you would for a pure monitoring tool, but in return you get detection and remediation instead of a second tool that you have to purchase and maintain separately.

If you want to know which trackers are currently firing on your clients’ websites before consent is given – and how you can fix this in one go, rather than just logging it – start with the free website scan at blueoceanprivacy.io or book a short consultation. We’ll show you, using real findings, what can be resolved immediately.