Procors SaaS: A Secure and Affordable Compliance Workspace for Small Broker-Dealers and RIAs

Introducing Procors : a simplified SaaS for smaller broker dealer firms

10/3/20265 min read

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Small broker-dealers and RIAs often have the right compliance policies, procedures, and review obligations in place, but the supporting evidence is usually spread across too many places. A FINRA Rule 3120 checklist may sit in one folder, WSP review notes may live somewhere else, remediation updates may be tracked in a spreadsheet, and evidence may be buried in email threads or shared drives.

Procors is designed to solve that everyday operating problem. It gives smaller firms a secure and affordable compliance file workspace where they can store checklists, assign evidence, track remediation, and export a clean audit-ready packet when management, auditors, regulators, or consultants need to review the work.

The product is not meant to replace a CCO, compliance consultant, legal counsel, written supervisory procedures, or the firm’s books-and-records obligations. It is meant to make the compliance work easier to organize, complete, review, and produce.

Why Small Firms Need a Better Compliance Workspace

Large financial institutions can afford complex GRC platforms, dedicated implementation teams, and long configuration projects. Smaller broker-dealers and RIAs usually need something more practical. They need a structured workspace that helps them manage recurring checklists, assign responsibility, connect evidence to the right requirement, track remediation, and prepare clean review packets without adding heavy enterprise overhead.

That is the role Procors is built to play. It gives firms a single place to manage the compliance file work that is often scattered across shared drives, spreadsheets, email, and disconnected folders.

Built Around the Rules Firms Already Search For

For broker-dealers, many compliance workflows connect back to a few familiar rule numbers. These rule numbers matter because they are how firms organize files, label evidence, prepare annual reviews, and search for supervisory obligations.

FINRA Rule 3110 focuses on supervision and written supervisory procedures. It is closely connected to questions about supervisory systems, assigned responsibilities, review processes, and evidence that supervisory work was performed.

FINRA Rule 3120 focuses on supervisory control systems, testing, verification, annual reporting, significant exceptions, and the creation or amendment of procedures when testing identifies a need.

FINRA Rule 3130 connects the supervisory control environment to annual certification support. Some checklist items may not be standalone Rule 3120 requirements, but they may still help support the annual certification process and related management review.

FINRA Rule 4511 is important because firms must preserve required books and records under applicable FINRA rules, SEC rules, and Exchange Act requirements.

SEC Rule 17a-4 is a key record preservation rule for broker-dealers, especially when records are maintained electronically and must be retained, indexed, protected, and produced when required.

For RIAs, Advisers Act Rule 204-2 is a central books-and-records rule. It is relevant when firms organize compliance records, annual review materials, advertising support, agreements, policies, and other required documentation.

Procors is built around the way firms actually think about these obligations. It helps turn rule-driven work into organized checklists, assigned tasks, linked evidence, remediation tracking, and exportable packets.

What Procors Helps a Firm Do

Procors turns compliance file work into a checklist-driven workspace. An administrator can create a checklist template manually or start from a source PDF, such as a FINRA Rule 3120 annual report checklist. The firm can then adapt the sections, questions, guidance, status fields, evidence prompts, and remediation fields to match its own supervisory program.

Once a checklist is ready, the workspace can break it into tasks. If a checklist has ten items, the firm can create ten tasks, assign each task to a registered workspace user, and track whether each item is complete, not applicable, missing evidence, or in remediation.

Each checklist response can include:

  • Yes, No, or N/A status

  • Owner

  • Due date or closed date

  • Evidence link or file

  • Notes

  • Finding or exception details

  • Remediation owner

  • Remediation due date

  • Closure evidence

This structure matters because a clean compliance packet is more than a folder of documents. It is the connection between the obligation, the test, the evidence, the exception, the owner, the remediation step, and the final review.

Why This Matters for FINRA Rule 3120 Annual Reports

The FINRA Rule 3120 annual supervisory control review can be difficult for small firms because it combines policies, testing, evidence, exceptions, remediation, and senior management reporting into one process.

Procors helps firms organize that process from the beginning. A firm can maintain checklist sections for core supervisory control requirements, testing plans, evidence trails, conditional Rule 3120(b) items for firms that meet the revenue threshold, Rule 3130 certification support, annual report drafting review, remediation logs, final approval, and delivery evidence.

Instead of waiting until the end of the year to assemble support for the annual report, the firm can build the evidence trail as work is completed. When a reviewer asks where the support is for a statement in the report, the team can open the checklist item and see the status, owner, evidence, notes, and remediation path.

That is the difference between using a file repository and using a compliance workspace.

Secure, Practical, and Priced for Smaller Firms

Small firms need security, but they also need software that is practical and affordable. Procors is being designed with firm-level workspaces, registered users, role-based access, administrator-controlled checklist templates, evidence linked to checklist responses, audit trails for edits and approvals, and exportable packets for review and examination support.

The product direction is intentionally focused. Procors is not trying to become a large enterprise GRC suite. It is a compliance file workspace for firms that need order, accountability, evidence tracking, remediation tracking, and clean exports without a long implementation cycle.

Better Than Another Shared Drive

Shared drives are useful, but they do not answer many of the operational questions compliance teams ask during reviews. A shared drive may store a file, but it usually does not show which checklist items are incomplete, who owns missing evidence, which exceptions still need remediation, what changed since the last review, or whether the firm can export a clean packet for senior management, an auditor, or an examiner.

Procors is designed to answer those questions directly. The value is not just storage. The value is structure, ownership, evidence, and review readiness.

For CTOs, CCOs, and Operations Leaders

If you are the CTO, CCO, COO, or operations lead at a small broker-dealer or RIA, Procors is built around workflows your team may already manage manually. It replaces scattered spreadsheets with structured checklists, connects evidence to the exact requirement, turns email chases into assignments, keeps remediation visible, and helps the firm prepare audit-ready packets without rebuilding the file from scratch each time.

The first use case can be simple. A firm can take one annual review, one supervisory control checklist, one branch inspection checklist, one advertising review support process, one cybersecurity checklist, or one recurring compliance file and move it into a structured workspace.

From there, the firm can expand into additional templates and recurring workflows as needed.

Reach Out for a Free Trial

Procors is accepting early conversations with small broker-dealers and RIAs that want a secure and affordable compliance file workspace.

If your team is still managing FINRA Rule 3110 supervision support, FINRA Rule 3120 annual review evidence, FINRA Rule 3130 certification support, FINRA Rule 4511 books and records, SEC Rule 17a-4 record preservation workflows, or Advisers Act Rule 204-2 files through shared drives and spreadsheets, Procors may be a good fit.

CTOs, CCOs, and firm operators can reach out for a free trial and help shape the product around the way smaller firms actually work.

Procors does not promise compliance. It gives your team a better place to organize, review, and prove the work was done.

With Procors - your data stays private, secure, and accessible only to authorized users in your workspace.

Reach out for a free trial. info@homersemantics.com

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