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This month marked a remarkable step forward for healthtech compliance and healthcare innovators. Acorn Compliance officially launched Squirrel™ 2.0, the next generation automated compliance platform.

Our journey began with a revolutionary idea: an AI assistant who could make healthtech compliance simpler, smarter and more accessible, helping bring innovations to those who need them most. 

We’ve listened closely to healthtech founders and compliance leaders who highlighted how regulatory complexity stalls innovation, how manual evidence generation takes months and how switching frameworks often resets progress to zero.

Now, that idea has been exponentially advanced: a new platform that is intuitive, inventive and more useful than ever before. 

With Squirrel™ 2.0, you don’t need to hit the brakes when regulations appear. Now, you can use a healthtech compliance platform that moves at the same pace as your innovation, giving you the confidence to prove your trustworthiness.

The Urgency of Innovation and the Compliance Barrier

There is a clear and urgent need for healthtech innovation to flourish. However, the biggest barrier to getting life-changing products into the hands of clinicians and patients is still compliance.

For years, compliance has been slow, manual, and expensive. The result is compliance debt, which delays reaching the NHS, missing investment opportunities and can result in rejection during procurement. 

This is when compliance becomes a scramble. You create duplicate work, lose momentum, and introduce uncertainty at precisely the moment you need clarity. For medical devices, this risk is even higher. Traceability, documented quality gates, and standards such as ISO 13485 are non-negotiable, and you cannot evidence them retroactively.

What matters most is that you can demonstrate safety, security, and trustworthiness so NHS buyers can say yes with confidence. That’s why Acorn Compliance focuses on eliminating complexity and giving teams certainty. With expert validation, automated guidance, and real-time assurance built in, Squirrel™ makes compliance seamless, trustworthy, and guaranteed. 

The Dynamic Challenge: Multi-Framework Overwhelm

Achieving this fundamental trust is made exponentially harder because the regulatory environment itself is so complex, constantly shifting, and expansive. Keeping up with frequent changes from bodies like the MHRA, FDA, and EU regulators can be overwhelming.

A significant challenge for innovators is the sheer number of overlapping frameworks required for market access. A modern product often needs compliance across DTAC, ISO 27001, Medical Device Regulation (MDR), and new AI regulations like ISO 42001 and the EU AI Act. This need for multiple, simultaneous certifications creates immense duplication of effort.

Furthermore, security risks are pervasive. Increased cyber-attacks on systems mean safety and security are "absolutely non-negotiable". This urgency recently led the NHS to clarify that technologies like ambient scribe tools must be classified as a Class I medical device if they inform care or feed into health records.

For innovators, this means you need fast, reliable, and verifiable compliance. This needs to start long before development, right at the start. And that’s exactly where Squirrel™ 2.0 raises the bar.

Squirrel™ 2.0 Builds Investor Trust With Verifiable Compliance Proof

Squirrel™ 2.0 keeps everything people loved about the original: an affordable platform with the intuitiveness and pace you’d expect from a consultancy, without the consultancy price tag. And now, it’s even more powerful, so you can:

• Reach DTAC Readiness 10x Faster: The AI-Powered Compliance Copilot delivers precise, context-aware guidance with full traceability. So when you don’t know what to do next, you get an immediate and reliable answer, not a guess.
  
  
• Enter New International Healthcare Markets, Seamlessly: One platform, many frameworks. From DTAC and DCB 0129, to ISO 27001, ISO 13485, HIPAA and SOC 2 — you can manage training, audits, policy logging and multiple standards in a single, connected workflow.
  
  
• Keep Organised With Real-time Alerts And Automatic Updates: What used to be a chaotic checklist is now a clear action plan. With automatically generated tasks, time estimates, notifications, and a Kanban-style view, you can respond to shifting priorities without losing sight of progress.
  
  
• Eliminate Risk Of NHS Rejection At Procurement: Every output is reviewed by compliance experts and backed by our Compliance Warranty. You get speed, clarity and the confidence that your evidence will hold up under scrutiny.
  
  
• Stay Compliant As Regulations Shift: Compliance doesn’t stop once you submit. Squirrel™ 2.0 evolves with your product, tracks shared controls, updates documentation, and keeps you aligned even as frameworks and markets change.

Any Framework You Need, All In One Place:

Whether you're preparing for a first-time DTAC submission or scaling internationally, Squirrel™ 2.0 supports:

Squirrel™ 2.0 Is Ready When You Are:

Healthtech innovations shouldn’t be held back by compliance and bulky spreadsheets, especially when the lives of patients, clinicians and users depend on your technology. With Squirrel™ 2.0, you get:

• Faster, smoother access to markets and procurement pipelines.
  
  
• Predictable pricing with no hidden consultancy fees.
  
  
• Automation that frees up your time to build rather than manage.
  
  
• Guaranteed evidence that will meet the highest standards of global regulations.

The world deserves your innovation.
Explore the full capability of Squirrel™ 2.0 and book a demo: acorncompliance.com/squirrel-automated-compliance-platform

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