GovernanceProof

Board papers, approvals and records — in your own Microsoft 365.

A secure portal for your board, trustees and committees. Meeting packs, e-signed approvals, policy management and audit-ready records — with every document held in your organisation's own tenant, never ours.

In development and already running in a live Microsoft 365 environment — external board members sign in as secure guests today. The GovernanceProof tier of EstateProof, included with Platinum. Early partners shape the build.

app.estateproof.co.uk · Governance

Autumn term board meeting

Pack compiled
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Estates & compliance reportGenerated from live data · item 4
Ready
Reserves policy v33 of 4 approvals in · awaiting Chair
Sign
Admissions policyApproved · published to website
Done
Board dashboard

Estate at a glance

96%
96%Compliant
4Overdue
Statutory compliance, live from the estate — not last term's spreadsheet.
The problem

Email attachments, printed packs and someone else's cloud

Most organisations run their board on a patchwork of email attachments, printed packs and a document portal that wasn't built for governance. Papers go astray, approvals live in inbox threads, and when an auditor or regulator asks for evidence, someone loses a week assembling it. And underneath it all sits a bigger problem: your most sensitive documents — board papers, minutes, declarations — are held in someone else's cloud, on someone else's terms, behind someone else's subscription.

What GovernanceProof does

The whole governance cycle, in one place

Meetings

Meeting packs, built in minutes

Create a meeting, attach papers to agenda items, and compile everything into a single paginated PDF at the press of a button. Members read the real documents — with comments and annotations — not flattened copies.

Decisions

Approvals with e-signatures

Papers that need a decision carry an approve-and-sign control. Every approval is timestamped against the exact version approved, and decisions flow automatically into your register.

Policies

Policy management that publishes itself

Every policy has an owner, a review cycle and a configurable approval route. When a new version is approved, the current version publishes automatically to your website and the old one is retired.

Records

Records that build themselves

Terms of office, attendance, declarations of interest and training records accumulate as a side effect of normal use — then export as audit-ready evidence in one click.

Configurable

Your board, your words

A school sees Governors. A charity sees Trustees. A company sees the Board. Every label, committee structure and approval route is configurable to your organisation — not the other way round.

Members

External members without licences

Board members outside your organisation sign in as secure Microsoft guests. No Microsoft 365 licence needed, no per-user fees — unlimited users is standard across EstateProof.

The part nobody else does

Your board sees the estate, live.

Board portals can't see your buildings. Compliance dashboards aren't built for board meetings. GovernanceProof is the only platform that is both: a full board portal — packs, e-signed approvals, external members — with live statutory compliance, planned maintenance and health & safety figures on the board dashboard. Your estates report for each meeting can be generated from live data instead of assembled by hand. Assurance stops being a paper exercise.

Governance · Board dashboard
96%Compliant
145Inspections
4Overdue
0P1 open
Statutory compliance by area
Fire
98
Gas
100
Water
91
Your data stays yours

The data never leaves your building.

Like everything in EstateProof, your board papers, approvals and registers live in SharePoint inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant. Not in our database. Leave tomorrow and everything is still yours, in standard formats, exactly where it always was. No other governance platform can say that.

  • Board papers, minutes and declarations held under your governance, your retention rules, your MFA.
  • External members join as secure Microsoft guests — nothing new for IT to vet.
  • Cancel and you lose the app, not the records. They were never ours to hold.
SharePoint · Your tenant

Governance Hub

Your tenant
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Board PapersVersion history · content approval
Yours
📁
PoliciesMajor & minor versions
Yours
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Compiled PacksOne PDF per meeting
Yours
Straightforward, like the rest of our pricing

GovernanceProof comes with Platinum.

Board-level assurance is the top tier of EstateProof: Platinum brings the full suite — FMProof, InspectProof and GovernanceProof — priced per school with everything else. When an audit finding, a DfE compliance question or a trustee-liability conversation reaches the board table, the evidence, the decisions and the e-signatures are already in one place, in your own tenant. Organisations currently pay four figures a year for a standalone governance portal that can't see their buildings. Price your estate in 30 seconds.

Who it's for

Any multi-site organisation with a board

The vocabulary changes; the job doesn't. GovernanceProof ships with your sector's language built in — and lets you change it.

See a board pack compile itself.

Click around the live Governance demo — a fictional trust with meetings, papers, approvals and a live estate dashboard. No sign-in, nothing to install.