AlertaÉtica — EU Whistleblower Directive Compliance Platform for SMBs

The Problem

The EU Whistleblower Directive (2019/1937) requires all companies with 50+ employees to provide secure, confidential internal reporting channels. Yet compliance adoption remains remarkably low:

Evidence:

"42% of Spanish companies are still non-compliant with the whistleblowing channel requirement." — ETL Ilia (2025 study)

"Who actually enforces whistleblower laws in small businesses? I've been looking for answers and it seems like nobody is checking." — r/smallbusiness (Reddit, 2025)

"In smaller, close-knit workplaces, maintaining anonymity can be difficult. Our 60-person company tried using a shared email inbox as our 'whistleblower channel' — the IT admin could see who sent what." — r/AskHR (Reddit)

"We hired a consultant to set up our whistleblowing channel for €5,000. They gave us a Word document with a policy and pointed us to a generic email address. That can't be compliant." — Industry forum

Specific pain points:

1. Cost perception — SMBs think compliance is expensive; most solutions start at €50-80/month but many don't know affordable options exist
2. Anonymity challenges — Email-based "channels" don't guarantee anonymity; shared inboxes violate GDPR
3. Case management — No structured way to track reports, deadlines (7-day acknowledgment, 3-month followup), and audit trails
4. Multi-country complexity — Companies operating across EU face 27 different national transpositions with varying requirements
5. Language barriers — Most tools are English/German-first; PT, ES, IT, PL markets underserved