How it works
Small pieces of work, properly finished.
Work like this is often sold by the hour, with no clear end. Provenance is set up the other way round. You pick one defined piece of work, and you know what you will get, when, and roughly what it will cost before you say yes.
Once the firm opens
What happens, in order.
A first conversation
About thirty minutes, at no charge. You describe the situation. Provenance says plainly whether it can help and, if it cannot, who might.
A written scope
One page that sets out what will be delivered, by when, and for what fee. Nothing begins until you have agreed it.
Your lawyers, only where needed
Most of this work needs no lawyer at all. Where a question is genuinely legal, you name who decides it — usually your own counsel. If you have none, Provenance can help you find one, and takes no fee for the introduction.
The work
Provenance gathers the facts from your documents, your systems and your people, and keeps its requests short. What you share is used for your work and nothing else.
The handover
You receive the finished pack. Any point that needs a legal decision comes on a single list, with the facts behind it, ready for your lawyers.
Payment
Half of the fee is planned to fall due at the start and half on delivery. If anything agreed is missing, it is put right before the second half is due.
Planned fees
A guide to what things will cost.
Provenance has not opened, so these are planned figures, not a price list. They are here because no one should have to ask for a call just to learn whether something is affordable.
All figures exclude VAT. The fee for your work is the one written into your agreed scope.
Where Provenance stops
Compliance work, not legal work.
Provenance is not a law firm, and it does not give legal advice or draft contracts. It does not need to: almost all of this is compliance and governance work — exactly what the CIPP/E, AIGP and an LL.M. in Data Economy Law are for.
The small part that is reserved to lawyers — drafting or arguing a contract, going to court — stays with yours. Provenance hands them the facts, so they spend their time on judgment, not fact-finding.
Three commitments
What you can hold Provenance to.
Evidence, always
Nothing is called a fact without the document, record or number to show it. If a thing cannot be shown, the pack says so.
Never both sides
Sellers and buyers are both welcome, but never on the same deal. If Provenance already works for the other party, it will say so and step back.
Your lawyers keep the law
No legal advice, no contract wording. Those stay with your lawyers, who get the facts already in order.
Not open yet — worth writing anyway
Tell Provenance what you are working on.
Provenance opens in 2027. Write now and you join the first group of clients, at the founding rate — and you will hear the day the calendar opens. A few lines about the company, the deal or the product, and what is blocking you, are enough. Hemant reads every message himself.