12 questions. About 4 minutes. Your grade and area scores show on screen instantly — email unlocks your 3 fixes and the full PDF report.
12 questions. About 4 minutes. Your grade shows on screen instantly. Email unlocks your 3 fixes and the PDF report.
Four areas of your firm's evidence process, scored against what the FCA has said it looks for. Here is what “good” looks like in each:
A written rubric, one graded log, overrides on record — anyone could pick up the review process tomorrow.
A fixed cadence, a sampling rule set in advance, and remediation that visibly changes something.
Every file shows its own reasoning: vulnerability considered, value justified, suitability in the client's words.
Board evidence comes from the monitoring log, not a scramble; overrides have an audit trail; the annual assessment is a lift, not a rebuild.
Sources: COBS 9.2.1R / 9.4.7R(2) / 9A.3.3R, PRIN 2A.4 / 2A.6 / 2A.1.3R, SYSC 9.1R, FG21/1, FCA focus areas 2025/26, FCA outcomes-monitoring multi-firm review, FCA board-report good practice (Feb 2026).
Written by Nick Thorp, founder of Proven Duty.
Amber is not a failure — it is the normal state of a firm whose evidence trail lags its advice. The grade is a to-do list: the weakest areas below the result are the specific fixes to start with.
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