Inspection-ready every day, not just the week they call.
CQC's Single Assessment Framework has 34 Quality Statements, and your service needs to demonstrate evidence against all of them — continuously, not just when the inspector rings. Most providers pay for mock inspections a few times a year, scramble to assemble evidence portfolios, and hope for the best. Your inspection evidence agent works year-round, mapping your existing data to those 34 statements, flagging gaps before they become findings, and writing outcome narratives ready for the evidence request.
What Your Agent Actually Does
Your evidence agent continuously assembles and organises your inspection evidence against all 34 Quality Statements — so you're never caught off guard.
Maps evidence to all 34 Quality Statements
Your agent reads care plans, incident reports, training records, feedback, policies, and meeting minutes — and maps each piece of evidence to the relevant Quality Statements. The evidence portfolio builds itself as you run your service.
Flags gaps before they matter
Missing evidence for a Quality Statement? Your agent tells you now, not when the inspector asks. A monthly gap report shows exactly where you're strong and where you need to act — in plain language, not regulatory jargon.
Writes outcome narratives
When CQC request evidence, you need more than a pile of documents. Your agent drafts outcome narratives — structured summaries that explain what the evidence shows and what it means for the people you support. The kind of writing that gets a "well-led" rating.
Tracks regulatory changes
When CQC updates its assessment methodology or publishes new guidance, your agent adjusts its evidence mapping. You don't find out about changes from a consultant's newsletter three months late.
Produces inspection-ready portfolios on demand
Inspector calls on Monday, wants evidence by Wednesday. Your agent generates a structured portfolio — indexed by Quality Statement, with narratives and supporting documents — in minutes, not days of frantic photocopying.
The real numbers.
| Mock inspection consultant (2–3 per year) | £4,000–£8,000 |
| Manager time assembling evidence portfolios | £3,000–£6,000/year |
| Gap analysis and remediation | £1,000–£3,000/year |
| Realistic annual cost | £8,000–£17,000 |
| Agent build (one-off, configured to your service type) | £4,000–£6,000 |
| Monthly running costs (hosting + AI usage) | £200–£350/month |
| SAF updates as CQC methodology evolves | Included in first year |
| Realistic first-year total | £6,400–£10,200 |
Mock inspections are useful but they're snapshots. They tell you how you look on one particular day, with one particular consultant's interpretation. By the time you've acted on the findings, three months have passed and the picture has changed.
Your agent gives you a live view of your evidence position — every day, not twice a year. When the inspector calls, your response isn't panic. It's "give us an hour to generate the portfolio."
Good fit / not a fit.
This works brilliantly for:
- Any CQC-registered provider that wants to move from reactive to continuous compliance
- Providers currently paying for multiple mock inspections per year
- Services that have been caught out by evidence gaps during inspection
- Registered managers who spend significant time assembling evidence on request
This probably isn't for you if:
- You have a full-time compliance officer who maintains evidence portfolios as their primary role
- Your care management system already provides robust evidence mapping to CQC standards
- You're a very small service with straightforward evidence requirements
Handled like the sensitive data it is.
Care records are special category data under UK GDPR, and we treat them that way. Your agent runs on Claude via AWS Bedrock with an EU-only inference profile — meaning prompts and outputs never leave the EU, and are never used to train a model. Protected under Anthropic’s enterprise Business Associate Agreement.
Every run is logged for audit, every output is a draft your registered manager reviews and approves, and your data lives in a tenant isolated from every other customer. We’re working towards NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit Standards Met and Cyber Essentials Plus, and we’ll hand you a pre-filled DPIA template you can drop into your own records.
Need UK-only data residency? We offer an Azure UK South deployment as an enterprise add-on for customers with stricter procurement requirements. Full security details →
Let's talk.
We'll talk through your current inspection preparation process — how you gather evidence, what systems it lives in, and where the gaps tend to appear. Usually a 20-minute conversation.
hello@nimblecroft.com