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🪔 Governance & Compliance

Dharma.
Governance, done right.

AI-powered compliance intelligence for founders, CEOs and company secretaries. Map your obligations across 27 frameworks — DPDP, GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, NIST CSF, POSH and more. Built into Lekha, additive to the 132+ documents you already use.

Frameworks covered

One posture, mapped to the standards

DPDP Act 2023

India's data-protection statute.

GDPR

The EU's data-protection regulation.

ISO/IEC 27001:2022

The international standard for an Information Security Management System (ISMS).

ISO/IEC 27701:2019

The privacy extension to ISO 27001.

SOC 2

An attestation over controls relevant to security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality and privacy.

PCI DSS 4.0

The security standard for organisations that store, process or transmit cardholder data.

NIST CSF 2.0

A risk-based cybersecurity framework organised around six functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond and Recover.

CCPA / CPRA

California's consumer-privacy law.

POSH Act 2013

India's workplace law against sexual harassment.

UK GDPR / DPA 2018

Post-Brexit UK data-protection law, largely mirrors EU GDPR but enforced by the ICO.

NIS2 Directive

Mandatory cybersecurity law for EU essential and important entities (energy, transport, banking, health, digital infrastructure and more).

EU AI Act

Risk-tiered regulation of AI systems.

HIPAA

Federal US law protecting Protected Health Information (PHI).

LGPD

Brazil's comprehensive data-protection law, effective 2020 with administrative enforcement from 2021.

Singapore PDPA 2012

Singapore's data-protection law enforced by the PDPC.

UAE PDPL

UAE's federal data-protection law (effective 2022, executive regulations 2023).

Saudi Arabia PDPL

Saudi Arabia's PDPL (enforced by SDAIA).

Qatar PDPPL

Qatar's data-protection law overseen by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT).

Bahrain PDPL

Bahrain's data-protection law enforced by the Personal Data Protection Authority (PDPA).

Australian Privacy Act / NDB

Australia's federal privacy law applying to agencies and organisations with turnover > A$3 million (and others).

APRA CPS 234

Mandatory cybersecurity standard for all APRA-regulated entities (banks, insurers, super funds).

POPIA

South Africa's data-protection law enforced by the Information Regulator.

Kenya Data Protection Act

Kenya's data-protection law enforced by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC).

Nigeria NDPA 2023

Nigeria's comprehensive data-protection law (signed June 2023), replacing the NDPR 2019.

EU NIS2 Directive

NIS2 expands EU cybersecurity obligations to 'essential' and 'important' entities across 18 sectors.

APRA CPS 234 (Information Security)

CPS 234 requires APRA-regulated entities (banks, insurers, superannuation funds) and their material ICT service providers to maintain information security capability commensurate with threats, classify information assets, test controls, and notify APRA within 72 hours of material incidents.

GLBA / FTC Safeguards Rule

US federal law for financial institutions (and, via FTC, non-bank financial companies).

How Dharma works

Your compliance journey — five connected steps

Each step builds on the last. Complete them in order or jump straight to the one you need.

STEP 1

Brief — AI company snapshot

Describe your company in plain English. Dharma's AI reads your industry, data types and jurisdictions and returns a tailored compliance landscape in seconds.

Start your brief →
STEP 2

Assess — scope your frameworks

Answer a short form about your data, business model and geography. Dharma maps exactly which of the 9 frameworks apply to you and why.

Get your compliance map →
STEP 3

Readiness — score your coverage

Tick the frameworks in scope and enter your current coverage score per framework. See your overall readiness at a glance and your top priority gaps.

Score your readiness →
STEP 4

Audit — gap-check your documents

Upload a policy or contract. Dharma flags gaps against your selected governance baselines — missing incident response, no DPO, no review cadence — with citations.

Run a governance audit →
STEP 5

Charter — board-approved output

Generate a board-approved Governance & Compliance Framework Charter as a polished DOCX or PDF. Covers adopted frameworks, risk ownership, policy stack and review cadence.

Build your charter →

Dharma is additive. Your existing documents, templates and the standard Lekha audit are unchanged. Dharma simply adds a governance charter and governance-specific checks on top.