Advisory Services
Beyond the legal channel — the culture where people actually use it.
Every EU organisation with 50 or more employees has a legal obligation to operate a secure, anonymous internal reporting channel. Most meet the legal minimum. Few build the culture that makes the channel genuinely effective — and it is the culture, not the channel, that delivers risk reduction.
Ethicalie combines the policy, governance and training side of whistleblowing with technology delivered through our partnership with Formalize — Europe's leading whistleblowing and compliance platform.
What we cover
Policies, procedures and channel architecture aligned with the EU Whistleblowing Directive and its national transposition. Documented, auditable, defensible.
Deployment of the Formalize platform, configured to your organisation's structure, geographies and risk profile. End-to-end encrypted, GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001 certified, hosted in Frankfurt. Schrems II compliant.
Case-handling protocols, escalation paths, anti-retaliation safeguards and audit logs — built so investigations are credible to regulators, staff and the board alike.
Training, internal communications and the cultural conditions under which the channel is actually used. Aligned with ISO 37002 where certification is in scope.
Approach
Most providers offer either advisory or the platform — rarely both, and the seams show. Ethicalie integrates the two: policy framework, governance structure, staff training and Formalize platform deployment in a single, coherent engagement.
We serve private companies, listed groups, public entities and NGOs — scaled to the organisation's size and complexity.
Begin with a confidential conversation. No obligations — just senior counsel on where your organisation stands and what the path to integrity looks like from here.