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Your medical device's path to market, made simpler.
Managed in Squirrel™, assured by MDR experts.

Squirrel™ helps you classify your device, build MDR-ready technical files, and keep them aligned with ISO 13485, DTAC and the NHS frameworks you'll need next. Built with MDR specialists, with every output assured by our in-house team and backed by our Compliance Warranty.

• Trusted by the World's Leading Healthtech Innovators •

UK medical device regulation, made practical for health innovators.

AI-powered DTAC guide

Magic away the most boring parts of building a healthtech.

The DTAC Squirrel™  has been built it with 100+ years of combined health-tech expertise. It’s the world’s first AI coach and compliance assistant with embedded DTAC knowledge, built for up & coming innovators like you.

On-demand compliance guidance

Get compliant at the speed of light with our round-the-clock expert help.

Squirrel™ is backed by the world’s most knowledgeable DTAC compliance team. You can access them through Squirrel™ for real-time guidance on all of your compliance and regulatory questions. Save time working out the DTAC mystery and work on what you know best—innovation.

Task management system

Real time compliance notifications and a sleek dashboard to keep you on track.

See simple compliance reports and get notifications that tell you what you need to do, and when you need to do it. Stay organised and hit deadlines with confidence.

DTAC coaching

Invest in continuous compliance, not one-off solutions.

Compliance is not a once and done exercise. You need to level up with every single product release to remain DTAC compliant. That’s why the Squirrel™ is built to help you understand and bake compliance processes into your company culture.

MDR Support that goes
(not 20%, not 50%, not even 80%) 100% of the way.

Support that goes (not 20%, not 50%, not even 80%) 100% of the way.

Built For Health

Designed for digital-health and AI-driven medical devices up to Class IIb. Squirrel™ helps you structure your technical file while linking it to related standards like ISO 13485, DTAC, DSPT and ISO 42001.

End Compliance Silos

Avoid the chaos of scattered frameworks. Squirrel™ connects your MDR evidence to the other standards you'll need, including DTAC, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001, so your security, safety, and privacy work lives in one place.

Powerful Automation

Get the speed of a platform with the assurance of expert oversight. Tasking and reminders keep your file moving while our MDR specialists review every section for accuracy, consistency, and readiness.

Human-in-the-Loop Assurance

Everything created in Squirrel™ is reviewed by our experts. From internal audits to risk reviews, they make sure your documentation is sound before it reaches your Approved Body.

Expert Guidance, On Demand

Need more than MDR support? Tap into Acorn's wider network of specialists, from virtual CSOs and DPOs to penetration testers and UK Responsible Persons, all available through Acorn and Squirrel™. One platform, every expert you need.

Compliance made easy, clients left beaming.

Discover how companies like yours have automated compliance, unlocked new markets, and ditched the compliance chaos.

“Squirrel™ guided us in the right direction and was very useful. It clarified and simplified the whole process, breaking compliance down into into easy, manageable tasks."

Duncan Ryan
CTO, Cherub Health

"It was great to work with Acorn Compliance. They were able to deliver our scope of work to time and fitted into the team seamlessly. I could not recommend them any more and we will be certainly using them for more projects."

Krishan Ramdoo
CEO - Tympa Health

"With a professional, reliable and extremely efficient approach, Acorn Compliance have assisted us in navigating the complex and heavily regulated healthcare market, to ensure DocComs attained all the required regulatory compliance and was accessible to purchase for the NHS."

Roseanna Jaggard
CEO, DocComs

The right plan for every stage of your compliance journey.

Start with what you need today and scale to what tomorrow demands.
Join hundreds of digital health innovators simplifying compliance with Squirrel™ 2.0

Starter Plan

From

£249

+ VAT
per month
Get Starter
Qualifying criteria:
Up to 3 employees
No funding received (Except accelerator funding)
Pre-revenue
Agree to act as a case study
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
AI coach with regulatory intelligence to guide your compliance journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription

Standard Plan

From

£370

+ VAT
per month
Get Standard
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
Cyber Essentials external assessment fee included
Simplified DCB 0129 clinical safety hazard log generation
AI coach with regulatory intelligence to guide your compliance journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Validation of your DTAC evidence by our expert team
Expert-guided support to introduce a culture of compliance into your organisation
The industry’s only DTAC warranty with our recognised seal of compliance
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Recommended

Pro Plan

From

£970

+ VAT
per month
Get Pro
Everything in Squirrel™ Standard, plus:
A named Clinical Safety Officer will be assigned to you for the duration of your 
Squirrel™ contract
Your CSO will deliver a full hazard assessment workshop, risk score all identified hazards in line with the DCB 0129 standard and deliver all required artefacts to satisfy the clinical safety element of DTAC
An assessment and output report on the medical device status of your innovation
The CSO will be available for a set time per month to assist with revisions to your Clinical Safety documentation as your product evolves
Minimum 12 month subscription
Add – ons
Penetration testing
Accessibility audit
Medical Device Regulations
ISO 27001
Bespoke regulatory advice
Most Popular

Starter Plan

From

£2,499

+ VAT
/pcm*
+ VAT
Get Starter
Qualifying criteria:
Up to 3 employees
No funding received (Except accelerator funding)
Pre-revenue
Will provide honest feedback on our product and act as a reference client (Agree to act as a case study)
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
AI DTAC coach to guide your DTAC journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

Standard Plan

From

£3,996

+ VAT
/pcm*
Get Standard
Full access to our automated compliance platform to get you DTAC compliant 10x faster
Coverage across the entire NHS DTAC framework including Cyber Essentials and DSPT
Cyber Essentials external assessment fee included
Simplified DCB 0129 clinical safety hazard log generation
AI DTAC coach to guide your DTAC journey
Live chat support on any DTAC question
Real-time compliance notifications and alerts to help you stay compliant
Validation of your DTAC evidence by our expert team
Expert-guided support to introduce a culture of compliance into your organisation
The industry’s only DTAC warranty with our recognised seal of compliance
Seamless sharing of your DTAC evidence with the NHS
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

Pro Plan

From

£10,476

+ VAT
/pcm*
Get Pro
Everything in Squirrel™ Standard, plus:
A named Clinical Safety Officer will be assigned to you for the duration of your 
Squirrel™ contract
Your CSO will deliver a full hazard assessment workshop, risk score all identified hazards in line with the DCB 0129 standard and deliver all required artefacts to satisfy the clinical safety element of DTAC
An assessment and output report on the medical device status of your innovation
The CSO will be available for a set time per month to assist with revisions to your Clinical Safety documentation as your product evolves
Minimum 12 month subscription
Save 10% WHEN PAID ANNUALLY

*pcm = Per Calendar Month

With every package you have the option to purchase add on services as needed:

Penetration testing
Accessibility audit
Medical Device Regulations
ISO 27001
Consultancy done differently
1-to-1 Strategy Session
Fractional CCO
AI Compliance

WARNING: You won't like Squirrel™ if…

We’ve helped innovators exactly like you go from confused to motivated. See how!

You crave the thrill of manual work.

Automating your evidence generation with Squirrel™ might free up too much time for innovation (yikes!).

You enjoy navigating complexity.

Our clear step-by-step guidance might make compliance too easy and understandable (the struggle is real!).

Deadlines are your motivator.

Squirrel™ helps you meet deadlines with ease, potentially eliminating that last-minute scramble some find so invigorating.

You could get compliance assistance from a number of places.

Compliance consultancies

Will reduce some barriers to market and give you expert guidance on your regulatory pathway…

But

They’re expensive and leave you with static evidence that goes out of date when your processes evolve.

Other compliance platforms

Will simplify the work and save you time with self-serve tooling...

But

The accountability stays with you. If your evidence gets challenged, you're the one carrying the risk.

Reasons Squirrel™  is the best of both worlds:

The support of a consulting company.  The efficiency of a compliance platform. Better than both.

Backed by specialists across every compliance area, including medical device regulation.
Embeds a culture of compliance, so you don’t keep running into regulatory roadblocks.
Built for healthtech (MDR, DTAC, ISO 13485 and the standards around them).
Backed by our Compliance Warranty: if evidence we've assured is challenged, we fix it. Few consultancies stand behind their work this way, and no platform does.

And we warranty all of your evidence, meaning...

If your Squirrel™ generated evidence file isn’t accepted by any reviewing body, we will remedy all of it free of charge!
We can even work with the procuring authority to help them fully understand your evidence file and get your assessment done in time!
ALL of this work will be free of charge and completed within 5 working days.

Have questions?

Is my software even a medical device?

UKCA or CE, which do I need?

Is a 12 month contract mandatory?

I'm stuck halfway through and have deadlines approaching. Can you help?

My product is a medical device - can you help?

My product is a medical device — can you help?

What if regulations change while I’m still developing?