Kaio by PrivacyDesigner · DPIA

Every IT-system gets a comprehensive privacy assessment, not just the ones you had time for.

Kaio interviews anyone on your team in plain language, no privacy expertise required, and drafts a defensible assessment your privacy lead signs off. Work that took your experts days now takes the team about 15-45 minutes.

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Two paths

One tool. Two very different reasons to love it.

I lead privacy or compliance.

Stop drafting every assessment yourself. Your team runs the interviews; you review and sign off. Coverage across every system, not just the ones you had time for.

I'm on a team that needs an assessment.

No legal background required. Answer plain-language questions about your project in a chat, and Kaio produces the assessment for your privacy lead to approve.

The problem

The bottleneck was never the law. It's who does the work.

The rules for a privacy assessment are knowable. The hard part is that every assessment routes through one or two specialists. So work piles up, projects wait, and the systems nobody had time to assess go live anyway. Your compliance coverage isn't limited by regulation. It's limited by your experts' calendars.

Why it works

Why Kaio works where compliance tools usually stall.

Anyone can do it.

The interface is a chat, the one tool your whole organization already knows. No training, no manual, no privacy degree. The people closest to each system do the assessment, because they're the ones who actually know how it works.

It asks what an expert would ask.

Kaio encodes what our privacy lawyers spent more than a decade learning. It starts with the technology (how a system works, what data moves where) because you can't assess compliance for something you don't understand. Only then does it turn to the law. Facts first, compliance second: exactly how a senior expert works.

It's a platform, not a document generator.

Every interview feeds PrivacyDesigner's structured data model, so your answers don't vanish into a one-off file. They build into a living, connected picture of your compliance. And every bit of it is yours to review and sign off.

And it goes further

Start with DPIAs. Kaio runs the rest too.

One process, any law. Kaio fetches the right compliance framework (GDPR, LGPD, a US state privacy law, ROPA, information security, the EU AI Act) and runs the same plain-language interview against it. The same effortless interview produces ROPA (Article 30 records), information-security assessments against recognised controls, and EU AI Act-aligned assessments. Every framework is just an editable set of controls, so you can adapt ours or build your own for internal policies, and Kaio turns those controls into the questions.

You can turn any law or internal policy into a set of controls in PrivacyDesigner, and Kaio handles the interviews.

Under the hood

Behind the chat: a real compliance data model.

Kaio isn't a chatbot bolted onto a text box. Under every conversation sits PrivacyDesigner's structured data model, the same one that helps you manage compliance across your organisation:

So an assessment is never just a document. It's connected data you can maintain, revisit, and build on.

Process

Three steps. One report that actually covers everything.

1

Interview

Kaio asks the right questions in plain language, technology first, then compliance. Anyone on the team can answer.

2

Generate

Kaio produces a full report: data-flow, compliance assessment, risk assessment, and recommended tasks, all grounded in the data model and expert methodology, never generic boilerplate.

3

Review & sign off

Your privacy lead refines, approves, and exports. Defensible, and ready for the file or a supervisory authority.

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Conducting DPIAs has never been this easy. What used to take days of meetings and back-and-forth now comes together in a single conversation.
Process owner, insurance company
I don't have to sit in every meeting asking the same clarifying questions anymore. Kaio understands the tech at least as well as I do, so it asks all the right questions for me.
DPO, media organisation
We can run far more assessments than before, and the time we save goes straight into the work that actually needs a human.
CIO, tech organisation

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

Does Kaio replace our DPO or privacy lead?
No. Kaio takes over the slow, manual part, chasing people for information and drafting the assessment, but the professional judgment stays with your privacy lead. Your team answers the interview in plain language, Kaio maps the data flow, flags the risks that matter, and drafts the report, and then your DPO or privacy lead reviews, adjusts, and signs off. It frees your expert to spend time on the decisions that actually need them, instead of collecting facts and formatting documents.
Is the output actually defensible?
Yes. The questions and structure come from more than a decade of expert assessment work, grounded in a curated knowledge base and your own structured data model, not free-typed into a generic chatbot. Kaio works facts-first: it understands the technology before it assesses the law, the way a senior expert does. That said, Kaio uses generative AI, which can make mistakes, so we always recommend that a privacy professional reviews and signs off on every assessment before it's relied on. We're also continually bringing more decisions, guidelines, and completed assessments into Kaio, so the quality of the assessments keeps improving over time.
Which frameworks does it cover?
The first version was built for the GDPR DPIA, but in testing the same interview method works for almost any privacy law, covering the DPIA-style assessments other regimes require, such as LGPD's data protection impact report (RIPD) and the data protection and risk assessments under US state privacy laws. The same method also handles information-security and AI-regulation assessments, because it's easy to bring your own framework: you capture any law or policy as a set of controls, and Kaio, with the PrivacyDesigner data model behind it, handles the rest.
What do we get from each interview?
A complete, structured report: a data-flow map of how personal data actually moves, a compliance assessment against the chosen framework, a risk assessment with scored risks, and a list of recommended follow-up tasks. And it isn't a throwaway document. Every answer feeds PrivacyDesigner's structured data model, so your assessments build into a living, connected picture of your compliance that you can revisit, maintain, and build on.
How hard is it to roll out?
About as hard as sending a message. The whole interface is a plain-language chat, so anyone on the team can answer Kaio's questions without knowing privacy law or assessment methodology. Pilot users needed no training: if your people can use the AI chat tools they already use every day, they can use Kaio.
What does it cost?
Kaio is in early access right now, so we're onboarding organizations by invitation while we bring on new cohorts. We'll walk you through pricing when we set up your access. Join the list and we'll be in touch within a few days.
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