LawRF — Statutory Audit Platform

The problem

Statutory audit in Italy follows the ISA standards, and in most small and mid-size firms it is carried out in Word and Excel. Not for lack of software, but because the general-purpose tools do not follow the standard’s actual sequence: accept the engagement, assess risk, set materiality, work the checklists, document the evidence, sign the report — each decision traceable to the one before it.

The compliance burden lands on the auditor’s own discipline, and “show me why you concluded that” means reconstructing a chain of reasoning out of files.

What I built

The concept, delivered as something the firm could use rather than a document they had to imagine. A browser app with demo data and nothing to install: the auditor opens a link and walks their own process — engagements, the risk matrix, materiality, ISA checklists — and finds out inside ten minutes whether it understands their job.

Underneath, the domain is modelled properly, with the throwaway part confined to storage. The prototype is disposable at the infrastructure layer and permanent at the domain layer, which is what makes building one worth the time.

Where it stands

Designed and prototyped. The firm evaluated it against their own practice before committing budget, and the scope conversation happened against something they could click rather than a specification they had to trust.