Answered the way we answer them in the room.
They're excellent equities/derivatives stacks — priced, deployed, and modeled for institutions with surveillance teams. A 20-person DCM applicant gets a multi-quarter integration, per-seat pricing that assumes a compliance department, and detection models tuned for order-book microstructure that doesn't exist in binary markets. DataTap is binary-native (settlement-profitability forensics, $0.01–$0.99 bound conduct, parity, catalyst-anchored insider detection), deploys as a login, and is priced for the size of team a new DCM actually has.
During designation, buy beats build: reviewers want to see an automated surveillance capability running, and your engineers are building the matching engine. The honest cost of in-house is not the detectors — it's the governance shell around them: four-eyes enforcement, WORM recordkeeping, backtested threshold changes, audit packaging. That's most of DataTap and none of your roadmap.
One export. CSV (or gzip, or a raw FIX drop-copy log, or JSON lines over the API) with trades, and optionally book deltas, settlements, and catalyst timestamps. The data-spec pack is a one-page download, and a dry-run mode validates your export end to end without writing anything.
The workspace exists the day you sign; the 90-day proof of value starts when your first export validates. There is no integration project — ingestion is market creation, and every detector picks up your markets automatically.
Per-tenant isolation is enforced in the data layer — unscoped queries on tenant-owned tables are refused by construction. The full posture, including backups, WORM evidence, and SOC 2 program state, is public at /security.
A read-only, case-scoped, time-boxed seat in your workspace — and their page views become part of the record. Audit packages are chain-hashed with versioned manifests. When the exam team calls, it's a login, not a document hunt.
The same tenant becomes production: daily scans, case management on the 38.156 clock, generated filings. Nothing is re-implemented. If you walk away instead, you keep the PoV report and we purge the tenant — deletion is a tested code path.
No. DataTap generates the factual, running-system core of your surveillance exhibit; your counsel's work product wraps it. We're the demonstration that the program exists, not the legal argument.