About Cerylis
Built by compliance specialists.
Cerylis grew from first-hand experience of regulated firms managing assurance through spreadsheets, documents, shared drives and email.
Founder
Dan Shearer
Financial-services compliance and regulatory-controls specialist
The core observation is simple: regulated firms are increasingly required to make evidenced and accountable regulatory judgements, while the processes supporting those judgements remain fragmented.
Dan Shearer is a compliance specialist with experience across public markets, professional services and RegTech, covering electronic trading, regulatory controls and markets compliance. His work has covered MiFID II and MiFIR, algorithmic and electronic trading governance, RTS 6, regulatory controls and wider markets compliance. Cerylis was created from first-hand experience of how regulatory assurance processes are often managed across spreadsheets, documents, email chains and disconnected systems. The goal is to bring requirements, controls, evidence, ownership, challenge and approval into one structured and defensible workflow. Technology should support and enable regulatory judgement, not replace it.
How we think
Technology should strengthen regulatory judgement, not replace it.
01
Evidence over assertion
Every conclusion should be grounded in the controls, facts and evidence that support it.
02
Challenge over box-ticking
Independent review is part of a defensible regulatory judgement, not a final checkbox.
03
Accountability over automation
Technology assists the work; accountable people retain ownership of decisions.
Cerylis
Build a more evidenced and accountable assurance process.