Building a Smarter, Safer Approach to SAR Compliance

Fisar is an enterprise data governance, discovery and compliance platform that automates Subject Access Requests (SARs) from end to end. It connects to your existing systems, finds the personal data held about an individual, applies AI-assisted review and redaction, and delivers a secure, audit-ready disclosure package - turning a process that traditionally takes weeks into one that can be completed in well under a day.

Organisations often spend 20-40+ hours manually searching email, cloud storage, collaboration tools and MIS systems to answer a single SAR, creating compliance risk, missed statutory deadlines and significant operational disruption. Fisar removes that burden through intelligent automation, consistent redaction and a defensible, fully auditable workflow.

Fisar is built for any organisation that regularly handles personal data and must respond to Subject Access Requests. It is purpose-built for the UK education sector - schools, colleges, universities and multi-academy trusts - and also supports healthcare, government, corporate and NGO organisations through configurable sector templates.

You connect your existing systems, then raise a SAR from the dashboard. Fisar verifies the requester's identity, gathers relevant data through read-only API calls, removes duplicates and checks relevance, then uses AI to identify and redact third-party information. Your Data Protection Officer reviews the result before Fisar delivers a secure, password-protected disclosure package to the requester.

Manual SARs rely on staff searching system by system, copying files and redacting by hand. Fisar automates discovery across all connected systems, applies consistent AI-assisted redaction with human review, and produces a complete audit trail - reducing processing effort by up to 99% while improving consistency and defensibility.

Fisar is UK education-native and combines MIS and cloud-productivity integrations in a single platform. Key differentiators include unified discovery across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and school MIS systems; an explainable AI pipeline with human-in-the-loop review; trust-level governance; confidence-scored file selection before disclosure; and schema-per-tenant data isolation.

Organisations typically see a 60-80% reduction in manual SAR handling effort, with many complex requests completed in under a day rather than weeks. Time savings come from automated cross-system discovery, de-duplication, AI-assisted redaction and a single review-and-approve step for your DPO.