# Richard G. Prouse

> Richard G. Prouse is a New Zealand-based builder of compliance and risk software and the Principal Analyst of Confidential Risk Consulting. He built TenderAxiom, DutyNode and Aidfolio, and is the author of the Lr Model paper on documentation and residual liability.

He builds fixed-price compliance and risk tools for consultancies, NGOs and government contractors: checkers, trackers, assessments and reports, with every fact traced to its source. Prices in USD: Tool Blueprint USD 500 (1 week, credited if the build goes ahead, refunded if it doesn't give a clear plan); Build from USD 3,000 (2 to 3 weeks); Care from USD 150 a month. He also takes remote analyst and due-diligence contracts. Based in Auckland, New Zealand; works with clients worldwide.

## Work

- [TenderAxiom](https://tenderaxiom.com): TenderAxiom helps companies bidding for US government contracts submit proposals that are compliant and true. Its Bid Check tests every factual claim in a draft proposal against the company's own records before an evaluator does. Case study: https://richardgprouse.com/work/tenderaxiom
- [DutyNode](https://dutynode.com): DutyNode lets people living near data centres check whether the hum they hear is the kind of low-frequency noise that ordinary decibel readings miss, using published screening methods, in under a minute and without signing up. Case study: https://richardgprouse.com/work/dutynode
- [Aidfolio](https://aidfolio.org): Aidfolio gives local humanitarian organisations free, private tools for the three problems they raise most: getting ready for a partner assessment, working out their true overhead costs, and preparing to share risk with a donor. Case study: https://richardgprouse.com/work/aidfolio
- [Confidential Risk Consulting](https://confidentialriskconsulting.com): Confidential Risk Consulting (New Zealand) reviews whether an organisation's safety and security documentation would stand up after an incident, and what to fix before one. Case study: https://richardgprouse.com/work/confidential-risk-consulting

## Research

- [Bridging the Documentation Void: A Quantitative Approach to Residual Liability (Lr) and Fiduciary Defensibility](https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6175099) (SSRN working paper, January 2026, DOI 10.2139/ssrn.6175099). Summary: https://richardgprouse.com/research/lr-model

## Contact

- Book a free 30-minute call: https://richardgprouse.com/#contact
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-prouse
- Full text for AI assistants: https://richardgprouse.com/llms-full.txt