Cairn
Show exactly what your records looked like on the day — not a reconstruction months later.
Cairn is an evidence layer for regulated work. It records what was done, why it was done, and when, so the record can stand up to audit or regulatory review months or years later. Use it for reviews, checks, approvals, exceptions, and other work where the record matters later.
What Cairn is
A faithful record of regulated work, kept for the day someone asks.
Cairn sits alongside the tools you already use and keeps a time-stamped account of how decisions were made and how work was carried out. The record is append-only and versioned, so the process that was in force on the day is the process that's stored.
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Point-in-time replay
Reconstruct the full record as it stood on any given day. No guesswork, no retro-fitting.
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Versioned processes
The version of the process that applied when the work happened is the version that's recorded against it.
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Append-only history
Nothing is silently edited. Corrections are themselves part of the record, with their own timestamp and reason.
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Calm by design
No nudges, no scoreboards, no notifications-as-pressure. The product gets out of your team's way.
Product
See the record, the context, and the procedure behind it.
Cairn keeps the operational record, the subject context, and the authored procedure connected, without turning the system into a workflow engine.
Evidence stays with the step it belongs to.
Each record follows the procedure version that was live at the time. Evidence, comments, step status, and audit history stay attached to the record instead of being reconstructed later.
Find the records and evidence around a subject.
Subjects act as anchors. A client, account, person, product, or review can show the records and evidence connected to it.
Define the repeatable work without running the whole workflow.
Procedures define the steps, guidance, subject rules, and expected evidence. Published versions are stable, so records keep the procedure that applied on the day.
Who it's for
Teams who need to show, later, that the right process was followed.
For compliance, operations, and oversight teams who need to show that the right process was followed. That might mean answering to a regulator, auditor, board, client, or internal review. The pressure is loudest in regulated financial services right now — Consumer Duty being one example — and that's where we're spending early time, but the shape of the problem isn't specific to finance.
What it isn't
Cairn isn't trying to run your work. It's recording it.
Cairn doesn't replace your CRM, your document store, or your workflow tool. It records what happened across them. If you have a system that runs your work, keep it. Cairn is the record beside it — the thing you reach for when somebody asks you to prove the process you followed.
It is not a workflow engine, a CRM, a document management system, or a GRC platform. It sits alongside those.
Pricing
Transparent, self-serve, and coming soon.
Pricing will be published here when it's ready. No sales calls, no hidden enterprise tier, and no pricing that only appears after a meeting. When it goes live, it goes live here — and you'll be able to sign up yourself without speaking to anyone.
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About Cairn River
A small UK software company, building for the long term.
Cairn River is a small UK-based software company. We are building Cairn deliberately, and we plan to be doing it for a long time. We are not venture-backed and have no plans to be. We answer our own support email.
Questions? [email protected]