Codeliance

AI-powered software for online platforms to manage and comply with online safety regulations.

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Public sources

Field	Value
Name	Codeliance
Tagline	AI-powered software for online platforms to manage and comply with online safety regulations. [Codeliance, 2026]
Headquarters	Dublin, Ireland [LinkedIn, 2026]
Founded	2025 [Vision-Net, October 2025]
Stage	Pre-Seed
Business Model	SaaS
Industry	Legaltech
Technology	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	Western Europe
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (2): Inbal Goldberger, Yoni Lavi [Codeliance, 2026]
Funding Label	Unknown
Total Disclosed	No confirmed public funding disclosed in the available sources [Vision-Net, October 2025]

Executive Summary

PUBLIC Codeliance is building AI-powered compliance software for online platforms facing online-safety rules, and it merits investor attention now because the company is targeting a narrow but increasingly operational problem: turning regulations such as the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act into testable workflows inside product and Trust & Safety teams [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. The public record is still thin, but the timing is notable: the company appears to have been incorporated in Ireland in August 2025, and its external footprint in 2026 centers on product messaging and event participation rather than financing or customer announcements [Vision-Net, October 2025] [Deloitte, October 2026].

The core pitch is more specific than generic compliance software. Codeliance says it converts online-safety regulation into structured obligations, test scenarios, and operational workflows, while Deloitte's October 2026 Demo Day materials describe a product that scans a platform against obligations, gathers evidence, identifies gaps, and recommends remediation [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026]. If that workflow works in practice, the differentiation rests on making trust-and-safety compliance auditable and repeatable inside software teams, rather than leaving it as a periodic legal review [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026].

The founding team is the clearest asset in the public file. CEO Inbal Goldberger is presented by the company and Deloitte as coming from Google Trust & Safety and policy enforcement, with experience tied to digital regulation and early GDPR compliance work, while CTO Yoni Lavi's public profile points to an August 2025 start at Codeliance and a background across software development, DevOps, and product systems [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. Team size appears very small, with RocketReach listing three employees and LinkedIn showing at least one QA consultant joining in 2026, which is consistent with a product still in early build-and-validate mode [RocketReach] [LinkedIn, 2026].

On capitalization, there is no confirmed public funding round, named investor, or accelerator participation in the materials reviewed, so the business should be read as an unfunded or undisclosed pre-seed SaaS effort until better evidence appears [Vision-Net, October 2025] [Deloitte, October 2026]. Over the next 12 to 18 months, the key items to watch are straightforward: whether Codeliance converts its early-partner language into named deployments, whether it can show that automated compliance testing reduces manual review burden for regulated platforms, and whether external financing emerges to support enterprise go-to-market execution [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026].

Company-stated, unverified -- The section relies materially on company statements, with limited third-party corroboration from Deloitte, LinkedIn, and an Irish company registry listing.

Taxonomy Snapshot

Axis	Value
Stage	Pre-Seed
Business Model	SaaS
Industry / Vertical	Legaltech
Technology Type	AI / Machine Learning
Geography	Western Europe
Growth Profile	Venture Scale
Founding Team	Co-Founders (2)

How the Company Got Here

Public sources Codeliance appears to be very early by any public measure. The company describes itself as an AI-powered compliance platform for online platforms facing online-safety rules, and the public record anchors that story in Ireland rather than in a venture financing announcement or a launch press cycle [Codeliance, 2026].

The legal entity is Codeliance Limited, with a Dublin base reflected in the company profile and founder location data [Vision-Net, October 2025] [LinkedIn, 2026]. Public materials indicate the business was founded in 2025, and an Irish company-information listing shows incorporation on 25 August 2025, which is the clearest dated milestone available in the current record [Vision-Net, October 2025] [Codeliance, 2026].

From there, the chronology is thin but directionally consistent. Yoni Lavi's public profile says he joined as CTO and co-founder in August 2025, suggesting the technical build was taking shape around the time of incorporation [LinkedIn, 2026]. By 2026, the company website had positioned Codeliance around compliance workflows for online-safety regulation, and Deloitte's October 2026 Demo Day materials placed the company in an external enterprise-compliance context, describing a product that evaluates platforms against regulatory obligations and identifies remediation gaps [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026].

Lightly corroborated -- Confirmed in part by Codeliance's website and the Irish company filing at Vision-Net, with additional chronology from founder LinkedIn profiles.

Product and Technology

MIXED

The product pitch is narrow in a way that makes sense for a young compliance startup. Codeliance says it is building AI-powered software for online platforms that need to comply with online-safety rules, with a stated focus on the EU Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act [Codeliance, 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. On the company site, the core claim is that regulation can be translated into structured obligations, test scenarios, and operational workflows, aimed at compliance, legal, and Trust & Safety teams rather than a general-purpose enterprise GRC buyer [Codeliance, 2026].

The more useful third-party description comes from Deloitte's October 2026 Demo Day materials, which frame the system as software that scans a product against regulatory obligations, gathers evidence, tests compliance, identifies gaps, and recommends remediation [Deloitte, October 2026]. That wording suggests an operational compliance layer, closer to continuous evaluation than static policy documentation, although the underlying model architecture, integrations, and deployment model are not described in the public record reviewed here [Deloitte, October 2026]. A LinkedIn profile for co-founder and CTO Yoni Lavi adds one more public detail, stating that he is building a compliance-evaluation system using software-engineering agents to generate and execute compliance cases against customer platforms, but that remains founder-sourced rather than independently demonstrated in a verified product walkthrough [LinkedIn, 2026].

The public evidence is enough to outline the product shape, but not enough to validate technical defensibility. There is a consistent through-line across the company website, Deloitte event materials, and founder LinkedIn disclosures that Codeliance is trying to turn changing online-safety law into machine-readable checks and repeatable workflows [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. What is still unproven from public materials is whether the product already operates as a full automated testing layer inside customer environments, or whether it is earlier-stage software supported by services and manual review.

Lightly corroborated -- Product scope is partially corroborated by Deloitte and company materials, but several technical details remain founder-sourced or company-sourced only.

Where the Demand Sits

PUBLIC This market matters now because online platforms face a narrower margin for error as online-safety rules move from policy discussion into operating requirements, while most compliance tooling still reflects broader governance workflows rather than product-level testing for the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026].

Codeliance is positioning into a market that is easier to describe by adjacent categories than by a single confirmed market-size report. Public sources support the company's focus on online-safety compliance for platforms subject to the DSA and OSA, and Deloitte's event profile is the clearest third-party description of the wedge: software that evaluates a platform against obligations, gathers evidence, tests compliance, identifies gaps, and recommends remediation [Deloitte, October 2026]. That places the company at the intersection of regulatory technology, trust and safety operations, and software testing, rather than in a generic legal-research bucket [Codeliance, 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026].

The demand signal is regulatory complexity, not discretionary software spend. Codeliance's own materials describe regulation being translated into structured obligations, test scenarios, and workflows, which is notable because the hard part for many platforms is not reading the law but operationalizing it across product, policy, legal, and compliance teams [Codeliance, 2026]. Deloitte's summary reinforces that interpretation by describing a workflow that scans products, tests controls, and collects evidence, which suggests buyers may be looking for systems that reduce manual audit preparation and shorten the path from legal obligation to implementable control [Deloitte, October 2026].

A second tailwind is that online-safety compliance is becoming an ongoing process rather than a one-time policy review. LinkedIn and company materials describe the product as focused on changing requirements under the DSA and OSA, and on using software-engineering agents to generate and execute compliance cases against customer platforms [LinkedIn, 2026] [Codeliance, 2026]. If that framing holds in practice, the relevant budget pool may come partly from trust and safety, partly from compliance, and partly from engineering quality assurance, which broadens the buyer map but also means the startup is selling into a cross-functional motion that can be slow without a clearly accountable owner.

Market lens	What public sources support	Source basis
Core market	Online-safety compliance software for platforms dealing with DSA and OSA obligations	[Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]
Adjacent market	Broader regulatory technology and governance workflows	[Codeliance, 2026]
Substitute budget	Internal trust and safety operations, legal review, manual audit evidence collection, QA workflows	[Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]
Delivery model	SaaS-like workflow software for compliance and operational teams	[Codeliance, 2026] [tltf.com]

The absence of a confirmed third-party market-size figure is itself informative. This looks less like a mature standalone software category with settled budget lines and more like an emerging compliance operations layer forming around new platform regulation. For investors, that usually shifts diligence away from top-down TAM slides and toward bottom-up questions: which team owns the budget, how painful current manual compliance work is, and whether the product becomes system-of-record infrastructure or remains a point solution around specific laws.

Regulation is the clearest macro force here, but it cuts both ways. The DSA and OSA create urgency because they increase expectations around platform accountability, evidence, and repeatability, yet they may also narrow the initial addressable market to companies with enough exposure to care and enough process maturity to buy software rather than use outside counsel or internal policy teams [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. The adjacent substitute markets are therefore substantial: enterprise GRC software, legal advisory work, trust and safety consultancies, and internal compliance operations all compete for the same spend, even when they do not look like direct product competitors.

On balance, the public evidence supports a credible market need, but not a quantified market size. The interesting part is the workflow convergence across legal interpretation, policy enforcement, and engineering test execution. If buyers increasingly want proof that platform controls work, not just documents saying they exist, then a purpose-built compliance-testing layer has a rational place in the stack. That remains a conditional thesis until public customer evidence appears.

Lightly corroborated -- Section relies on one independent third-party description from Deloitte plus company and LinkedIn materials; no confirmed third-party market-sizing report was available.

Competitive Landscape

MIXED Codeliance appears to be positioning itself less against broad compliance software and more against internal Trust & Safety, legal, and QA workflows that many online platforms still run through spreadsheets, policy memos, and one-off testing processes tied to the DSA and OSA [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026].

The practical competitive map is therefore wider than the public record on named startups suggests. On one side sit established governance, risk, and compliance vendors, which are designed to track controls and evidence across many regulatory domains but are not shown in the cited record as purpose-built for online-safety regulation. On another side are specialist Trust & Safety service models, including policy teams, consultants, and outside counsel, which can interpret the DSA or OSA but do not necessarily translate those obligations into repeatable product tests or engineering workflows. The third substitute is the in-house stack: policy spreadsheets, ticketing systems, QA plans, and manual evidence collection. Codeliance's product description, particularly the claim that it converts regulation into structured obligations, test scenarios, and workflows, suggests it is trying to compress those fragmented functions into software [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026].

The edge that is visible today is domain concentration rather than scale. The company is focused on online-safety regulation, including the EU DSA and UK OSA, and its public materials tie that focus to founders with Trust & Safety and software backgrounds rather than a generic compliance playbook [LinkedIn, 2026] [Codeliance, 2026]. That can matter early, because buyers in this category often need operational interpretation of ambiguous rules, not only document management. Still, the durability of that edge is not yet established. Regulation-specific knowledge can create a wedge, but unless Codeliance builds proprietary testing data, deep workflow embeds, or a trusted distribution channel into major platforms, the advantage may prove perishable as larger compliance vendors, service firms, or internal platform teams add similar workflows [Deloitte, October 2026] [Codeliance, 2026].

The exposure is just as clear from the sparse public evidence. Deloitte is the most concrete named organization in the record, but as an event host rather than a confirmed channel partner, investor, or customer [Deloitte, October 2026]. That leaves Codeliance without a publicly demonstrated go-to-market moat, named design partners, or reference customers. In practice, its hardest competitor in the near term may be not another startup but incumbent buyer behavior: large platforms already have legal, policy, Trust & Safety, and engineering teams that can keep compliance work in-house, while smaller platforms may default to counsel plus manual processes until enforcement pressure increases. With only a three-person employee footprint surfaced publicly, according to RocketReach, the company also appears bandwidth-constrained relative to the breadth of regulatory interpretation, product integration, and enterprise sales required here [RocketReach].

The most plausible 18-month scenario is a bifurcation between platforms that want software-native compliance testing and those that continue buying expert services. Winner if enforcement intensity rises and buyers demand auditable, repeatable evidence collection: Deloitte, or another advisory-led channel with enterprise access, because it can package interpretation and software together while smaller vendors supply the tooling layer [Deloitte, October 2026]. Loser if the category stays consulting-led and rules remain too bespoke for standardized productization: Codeliance, because its stated differentiation depends on turning legal obligations into repeatable test cases, which works best when customers accept software as part of the compliance operating model rather than a peripheral tool [Codeliance, 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026].

Company-stated, unverified -- This section relies primarily on company materials and one third-party event profile, with no named competitors, customer references, or independent market-share evidence in the cited public record.

Opportunity

PUBLIC

The prize here is larger than a point compliance tool: if Codeliance executes, it could become the operating layer that online platforms use to turn fast-moving online-safety law into repeatable product, legal, and Trust & Safety workflows across Europe and, over time, other regulated markets [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026].

The headline opportunity rests on a narrow but commercially serious wedge. Codeliance is not presenting itself as general governance software. Its public materials describe software that converts online-safety regulation into structured obligations, test scenarios, and operational workflows, while Deloitte's October 2026 Demo Day materials describe a system that scans a product against obligations, gathers evidence, tests compliance, identifies gaps, and recommends remediation [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026]. If that workflow works in production, the reachable outcome is not merely advisory revenue. It is a software layer that sits between regulation and product operations, especially for compliance, legal, and Trust & Safety teams dealing with the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Act [LinkedIn, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026].

A second reason the upside is real rather than purely theoretical is founder-market fit around the problem definition. The CEO is presented by the company as having led global intelligence and policy-enforcement teams at Google Trust & Safety and worked on early GDPR compliance, while the CTO's profile says he joined in August 2025 to build an AI-powered compliance-evaluation system using software-engineering agents to generate and execute compliance cases against customer platforms [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. That does not prove product-market fit. It does suggest the team understands that the pain point is operational translation, not just legal interpretation.

Scenario	What happens	Catalyst	Why it's plausible
DSA system of record	Codeliance becomes the default workflow layer for mid-market and enterprise platforms handling DSA and OSA obligations, with compliance evidence, testing, and remediation managed in one product	A regulatory enforcement cycle pushes platforms from policy drafting into auditable execution workflows [Deloitte, October 2026]	The product is already framed around obligation mapping, evidence gathering, and gap detection for online-safety rules rather than generic GRC [Codeliance, 2026] [Deloitte, October 2026]
Trust & Safety tooling expansion	The company starts with compliance evaluation, then expands into recurring monitoring, internal controls, and cross-functional Trust & Safety operations software	Early partner deployments create adjacent workflow demand from legal, compliance, and operations teams [Codeliance, 2026]	Codeliance says it is working with early partners, and its public positioning already spans compliance, legal, and Trust & Safety users [Codeliance, 2026]
Ecosystem distribution route	Codeliance grows through demos, advisory channels, and specialist compliance partners that need software to operationalize online-safety requirements for clients	Third-party validation from events and services firms gives the startup a lower-cost route into regulated platform buyers [Deloitte, October 2026]	The company's most visible external development is inclusion in Deloitte's AI and tech-enabled compliance Demo Day, which at minimum shows some resonance with compliance-focused intermediaries [Deloitte, October 2026]

What compounding would look like is fairly specific. Each customer implementation could produce a reusable library of structured obligations, test cases, evidence requests, and remediation patterns for the same regulatory regimes, which should lower onboarding effort for the next platform in a similar category if the software architecture is sound [Codeliance, 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. Over time, that can create a modest but meaningful data moat: not proprietary law, but proprietary operational mappings between legal requirements and product behaviors.

The early public signals are thin, but they point in that direction. The company says it converts regulation into test scenarios and workflows, and the CTO's profile describes agent-based generation and execution of compliance cases against customer platforms [Codeliance, 2026] [LinkedIn, 2026]. If those claims hold up in customer environments, one win can feed the next through faster deployment, broader control coverage, and more credible audit trails. In compliance software, that sort of implementation learning often matters more than model novelty.

The size of the win is difficult to benchmark cleanly because no confirmed funding, revenue, or customer data is public, and no direct public comparable is established in the supplied record. Still, the upside case can be stated with discipline. If Codeliance became a leading European software layer for operationalizing online-safety regulation, the outcome could plausibly support a venture-scale software business with strategic value to larger governance, risk, compliance, or Trust & Safety vendors (scenario, not a forecast) [Deloitte, October 2026] [Codeliance, 2026]. That is the relevant prize: not a consultancy with automation, but a compliance infrastructure product for a regulatory domain that is becoming more process-heavy and more continuous.

Lightly corroborated -- Section relies on one independent external source, Deloitte, plus company and LinkedIn materials; no public revenue, customer, funding, or market-size data was verified.

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