Your Article 30
record, alive.
Most records of processing are accurate on the day they are signed off and wrong within a quarter. Whisperly's agents draft each entry, then keep it current as your systems and vendors change.
A spreadsheet is not
a live record.
Article 30 requires the record to reflect what you actually do with personal data. Maintained by hand, it describes what you did at the last audit.
It goes stale between reviews
A team adopts a tool, a vendor swaps a sub-processor, a retention period changes. None of it reaches the spreadsheet until someone remembers to ask.
Every entity writes it differently
The same processing activity described five ways across five subsidiaries, with no way to compare or consolidate for the group.
Nothing else can rely on it
DPIAs, DSAR fulfilment, transfer assessments and breach scoping all depend on the record. If it is unreliable, so are they.
Agents draft it.
You approve it.
Four stages, and only one of them needs your time.
Discover the processing
Agents read your connected systems, vendor contracts and existing documentation to find the processing you already do. Department questionnaires fill the remaining gaps, in each entity's own language.
Draft every Article 30 field
Purposes, categories of data subject and data, recipients, third-country transfers with their safeguards, retention periods and security measures, each proposed with the reasoning behind it and the source it came from.
Review and approve
Your DPO checks the draft, edits what needs editing and approves. Legal bases in particular are a judgement call, so the agent proposes and cites, and a human decides. Every approval is logged with who and when.
Keep it current
The agent keeps watching. A new sub-processor, a changed transfer route or a new AI feature in an existing tool raises a flagged entry for review rather than sitting undetected until your next annual cycle.
One record.
Everything downstream.
The RoPA is not a filing exercise. It is the data model your whole privacy programme runs on.
Controller and processor records
Article 30(1) and 30(2) maintained in one place, so activities where you act in both roles stay consistent instead of diverging across two registers.
DPIA screening, automatically
Each entry is tested against Article 35 triggers as it is written, so high-risk processing surfaces a required DPIA rather than waiting to be noticed.
Transfer mapping and safeguards
Every third-country transfer identified with its mechanism, whether adequacy, SCCs or derogation, and flagged when a vendor changes hosting region.
Faster DSARs and breach scoping
When a request or an incident arrives, the record already tells you which systems hold the data, who processes it and where it goes.
Supervisory authority exports
Generate the register in the format your regulator expects, per entity or consolidated for the group, with the full revision history behind it.
A full audit trail
Every draft, edit and approval is versioned with its author and timestamp, so you can show a regulator not just the record but how it was maintained.
Every entity.
Every language.
Each legal entity keeps its own register under its own regime, and the group sees all of them at once.
Frequently asked questions
See your register
drafted for you.
Bring your current RoPA, in whatever state it is in. We will show you what the agent finds that it is missing.