CASE STUDY · FORENSIC CONSULTANCY · UAE
When a case advances without its documents, the findings stop being defensible.
We built a single system of record for a UAE forensic consultancy, covering the full matter lifecycle — intake, expert engagement, review, client delivery, billing and archive.
The situation
Forensic work moves through a fixed chain, and each stage carries compliance obligations. Handled across disconnected tools, the risk is not inefficiency — it is a matter progressing without the documentation that makes its conclusions hold up.
What we built
A single-tenant web CRM spanning the full lifecycle, with five distinct roles — Admin, Director, Operations Manager, Care & Success, and Experts — each seeing only what their work requires.
The system enforces the process rather than only recording it.
Mandatory documents, enforced server-side
A case cannot advance to expert work until every document required for that case type has been uploaded and verified. Attempting it returns the specific checklist of what is missing, and the transition does not apply.
SLA-driven escalation
Assigned experts must accept or reject within a defined window. No response escalates automatically to Operations under configurable policy, so matters do not stall silently.
Reconstructable audit trail
For any case, the system produces a chronological record of every transition, upload, verification, assignment, decision and billing entry.
Time-limited document access
Case files are served through expiring links rather than permanent URLs, with multi-factor authentication on user accounts.
How it was delivered.
- 1
Foundations
Data model, authentication, roles, and CI.
- 2
Core build
Case lifecycle, document checklist, assignment and acceptance, billing entries.
- 3
Operations & finance
Report review, client communication, invoice export, director dashboards.
- 4
Hardening & compliance
Audit trail completion, security review, backups, monitoring, end-to-end tests, staging-to-production runbook.
- 5
Launch & handover
Cutover, training, and a post-launch support window.
The system reached a documented first release and was extended the following month with finance, HR and performance-review modules — the ongoing-optimisation model rather than a hand-off-and-leave engagement.
Same shape, different operation?
The pattern — a regulated workflow where steps must not proceed without their evidence — recurs across legal, advisory, private healthcare, corporate services and finance. If that describes your operation, the conversation is a short one.
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