Built by a team that hated getting the compliance call at 5pm.
Founded in Boston in 2021. Bootstrapped. Still small enough that the founder answers support tickets.
The compliance call she couldn't stop thinking about.
Before founding Consentpane, Nicole spent five years in data compliance and privacy operations — reviewing consent implementations, sitting in DPA post-mortems, and helping legal teams reconstruct records they'd never kept properly. The pattern was the same every time.
The banner was visible. The privacy policy was accurate. And still: three ad pixels had been collecting device identifiers from 40,000 EU visitors in the window between page load and banner render. No pre-consent blocking. No audit log. A clean notice that was legally insufficient.
In 2021, Nicole founded Consentpane in Boston to fix the infrastructure layer that banner-only CMPs skip. Not a new banner tool — a consent enforcement layer that prevents collection before the decision, records every event with the full context a DPA expects, and adjusts automatically to each visitor's regulatory jurisdiction.
The company remains bootstrapped, based at 470 Atlantic Avenue in Boston, and focused on a single product. No venture pressure to expand scope, add modules, or chase the enterprise procurement cycle. One problem, solved well.
Talk to Nicole directly"We believe consent infrastructure should be invisible to visitors, ironclad for auditors, and zero-friction for developers."
The privacy regulation landscape keeps expanding. New US state laws pass regularly. GDPR enforcement patterns shift as DPAs publish more specific guidance on pre-consent collection. What doesn't change is the gap between a visible banner and actual tracker blocking — and that's the gap Consentpane fills.
Consentpane is not a legal consultancy. We don't advise on GDPR compliance posture or DPA response strategy — that's your DPO's role. We build the technical layer that gives your DPO something concrete to point to: a record that scripts did not fire before consent, timestamped from the first load.
Set it up once. Know it works. Have the audit log ready before anyone asks for it.
Small, deliberate, focused on one thing.