If you are responsible for DORA, the EU AI Act, NIS2 or GDPR inside a mid-sized regulated firm, one of the first questions you face is who should help you deliver it. For most organisations the shortlist starts with a consulting firm. This page sets out, plainly, how that model differs from the way Morclear Europe works, so you can decide which one suits the problem in front of you.
General-practice consulting covers a wide field, from the Big Four through the mid-tier accountancy and advisory firms to the regulatory practices inside law firms. They employ experienced people and have the scale to run programmes across several jurisdictions at once. Nothing here disputes that. The difference is structural rather than a question of quality, and it matters most when you are choosing between a project and an ongoing obligation.
Two different models
| General-practice consulting | Morclear Europe | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope of practice | Multi-disciplinary. Audit, tax, deal advisory, technology and regulatory work across most sectors. | Five EU frameworks only: DORA, the EU AI Act, GDPR, NIS2 and ISO 27001:2022. |
| Engagement shape | Typically scoped as a defined project with a start date, a set of deliverables and a close. | Continuously managed service, with fixed-price assessments as the entry point. |
| After the deliverable | Documents are handed over. Further regulatory change is usually a new scope. | Regulatory Radar monitoring and the managed modules keep running between deadlines. |
| How the work is produced | Consulting teams, billed by time and grade. | CORA™ modules produce the first draft. A named compliance professional reviews, corrects and signs every output. |
| Who signs off | The engagement partner and team assigned to your account. | The Managing Director, named on the deliverable, for every engagement. |
| Sized for | Enterprise and listed-company programmes at the top end, broad commercial work below it. | Organisations of roughly 50 to 2,000 employees. |
| Commercials | Scoped per engagement. | Published entry prices, with scoped fees confirmed after a free scoping call. |
This comparison describes service models, not outcomes or quality. Morclear Europe makes no claim about the results of any other firm.
When a consulting firm is the right answer
There are situations where the scale of a large consulting engagement is exactly what the problem requires, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. If you need a statutory audit, or an independent assurance opinion that your board or regulator expects to carry a large firm name, that is their work and not ours. The same applies to a group-wide transformation running across several jurisdictions and business lines at once, or to remediation under formal supervisory pressure where the regulator has already indicated the level of resource it expects to see. Where the question is one of legal interpretation rather than programme delivery, a law firm is the right call and we will say so.
If your situation looks like any of those, engage a firm with the bench strength to match it.
When a specialist fits better
The more common position for a mid-market regulated firm is different. You have a live obligation under DORA or the AI Act, a small internal team already at capacity, and no realistic prospect of hiring a full compliance function for it. What you need is not a transformation programme. It is a clear read on where you stand, a defensible set of documents, and someone watching the regulatory position between now and the next deadline.
That is the shape of work Morclear Europe is built around. Compliance is not a project that closes. Registers age, vendors change, thresholds move, and the obligations that mattered last quarter are rarely the ones that matter next. A managed service assumes that from the outset.
What Morclear Europe does
CORA™, our Compliance Operations and Risk Automation platform, runs eight specialist modules covering incident response under DORA, gap assessment, third-party ICT risk, regulatory monitoring, board reporting, training, communication with national competent authorities, and AI governance under the EU AI Act. Every module is powered by AI and every output is reviewed by a compliance professional before it reaches you. That review is the product. AI can draft a policy; it cannot stand behind one when a regulator asks who signed it.
Start with the free assessment
A ten-minute EU AI Act assessment that tells you which obligations apply to your systems and when. No cost and no commitment.
Or start with a gap assessment
A fixed-price gap assessment at €999, delivered in two weeks, against whichever framework applies to you.
Beyond that, Programme Build starts from €15,000* over eight to twelve weeks, Managed Compliance from €2,000 per month*, Regulatory Radar at €199 per month, and Virtual DPO from €1,200 per month.
*Fees confirmed after a free scoping call.
Where we stand today
Morclear Europe is a new firm. We do not publish client names, case studies or outcome statistics, because we are not going to invent them, and a compliance business that misrepresents its own record has no business advising anyone on theirs. What we will do is give you a substantive read on your position before you pay us anything. Run the assessment, or take the scoping call, and judge the work rather than the marketing.
Regulatory compliance, continuously managed. AI-powered, expert-reviewed.
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