Regulatory · Investigative · Big data
Seek. Investigate. Answer.
Rapu builds and leads the teams that answer regulatory, investigative and large-scale data questions — for the businesses and individuals facing them, and the advisers who act for them.
- Investigations
- Digital forensics
- eDiscovery
- Insolvency & asset tracing
- Data governance
- Regulatory response
What Rapu is for
Most firms sell you a tool, or a person.
Rapu assembles the team. Forensic examiners, data engineers, review leads and project managers who can face counsel — scoped, staffed and run end to end, under one accountable lead.
That is the work we exist for: matters too large, too regulated or too contested for a single consultant, where the answer has to be defensible months later in front of someone who would rather it were not.
Governance that survives inspection
Data inventories, records of processing, retention and subject access — built on how your systems actually work, then remediated rather than merely reported.
Evidence that holds up
Internal investigations, disputes, insolvency and asset tracing, forensic acquisition and expert reporting. Documented on the assumption someone hostile will read the file.
Discovery at volume
Collection, processing, culling, review management and production — sized to the matter, across jurisdictions, in languages that defeat naive throughput assumptions.
How we work
Method matters more than tooling
One team, one accountability
Scoped, staffed and run by Rapu. Not subcontracted onward and not handed between departments while the deadline moves.
We build what is missing
Bespoke tooling, ingestion pipelines and review workflows when off-the-shelf will not do — software engineering in service of the matter, not as a product pitch.
AI where it is evidenced
We use machine learning where it demonstrably cuts review volume or surfaces what manual review misses, and we can show you the numbers. We do not use it where it cannot be defended.
Founded 2017
Built on two decades of doing the work
Rapu was founded by Duncan Gardiner, who has led forensic and eDiscovery teams in London, Frankfurt and Hong Kong across banking, insurance, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, mining and manufacturing.