Verfahrenscheck · For German enterprise HR
Know whether the file can carry the decision, before you sign the Kündigung.
Die Entscheidung war richtig. Die Akte war es nicht.
Verfahrenscheck is a pre-termination file review. We read the Kündigung file the way an Arbeitsgericht will — and surface the weaknesses before the notice goes out.
Most termination decisions do not fail because the reason was wrong. They fail because months later nobody can reconstruct how the decision was reached from the file itself.
- §102 hearing
- Personalakte
- Chronology
- Annahmeverzug exposure
- AGG risk
- 72h turnaround
Local deployment available · EU/Germany data residency · you keep the file · not automated decision-making
§102 BetrVG hearing dated after the Kündigung was signed.
Illustrative example. Every conclusion in a real review shows the rule, the fact, and the reasoning — so Legal can check it line by line.
One file standard. Every manager. Every site.
How defensible a termination is should not depend on who handled the file — but today it usually does. Your strongest manager produces a file that survives the cold read months later; the next one may not. Across every site and business unit, that is execution quietly slipping out of your control, long before a lawyer is ever involved.
The file should not depend on the memory of the manager, HRBP, or counsel who handled it.
Verfahrenscheck holds every case to the same methodology and the same review standard, so consistency stops depending on who happened to handle the file.
The loss you don't forecast is the one that reaches the board.
And when one of those files fails, the cost stays invisible at first. Annahmeverzug starts the day the notice lands; the financial consequences arrive much later. A dispute that takes twelve to eighteen months to resolve can create a six-figure exposure before costs are considered. The board sees the number long after the original decision was made.
The same applies to AGG exposure. An unresolved complaint, an incomplete chronology, or a procedural inconsistency may remain invisible during approval and become highly visible during litigation.
The file becomes the witness when everyone else has moved on.
What you receive.
One structured defensibility review, returned typically within 72 hours, while the decision can still be changed:
- Documentation gaps — what is missing from the file.
- Procedural risk — where the process is incomplete or inconsistent.
- Special-protection check — Sonderkündigungsschutz triggers that void a notice automatically — severe disability, pregnancy, parental leave, Betriebsrat membership.
- Evidence weaknesses — facts that require support before approval.
- Chronology review — whether the sequence is complete, coherent, and defensible.
- Exposure analysis — expected dispute range and potential Annahmeverzug exposure, so you can settle from strength or hold the line on the merits.
- Executive summary — one clear read for HR, Legal, and governance stakeholders.
Every conclusion shows the rule, the fact, and the reasoning. You remain the decision-maker.
What Legal, the DPO, and the Betriebsrat will ask on day one.
Legal: Can we inspect the reasoning?
Yes. Every conclusion maps to the underlying rule, the facts in the file, and the reasoning applied. Legal can review the analysis line by line rather than reviewing a black-box score.
The DPO: Where does the data go?
- Local deployment available today
- No runtime AI required
- EU/Germany data residency
- AVV available
- DPIA template available
Your organisation retains control of the environment and the data.
The Betriebsrat: Is this employee or manager monitoring?
No. Verfahrenscheck assesses termination cases. It does not score managers. It does not evaluate employees. It does not generate performance rankings.
A Betriebsvereinbarung template is available as part of the deployment package.
Governance
Verfahrenscheck supports decisions. People make them.
Built with the first five, not sold to the next five hundred.
Verfahrenscheck is currently being built alongside its first five German employers. Founding design partners receive pricing locked through 2028, direct influence over methodology and roadmap, priority access to the first on-prem deployment, direct access to the founders, and early participation in employer-side legal validation against real cases.
If you need a mature vendor with years of references, Verfahrenscheck is not that today. If you want visibility into termination exposure before the rest of the market catches up, that's exactly who we're building with.
Who reads your file
Every pilot-phase review is run end to end by Mano Venkatesan, who built the deterministic G0–G7 review pipeline behind Verfahrenscheck. The legal call stays yours — what the review adds is the cold, outside read: your file reconstructed the way an Arbeitsgericht, and the Klägeranwalt across the table, will read it eighteen months later.
The underlying rules and findings can be independently validated by a senior Fachanwalt für Arbeitsrecht. We name the validating Kanzlei only once attribution permission is in place — not before.
The best termination file is the one that can explain itself.
Know where the risk is. Strengthen the file. Sign with confidence. Three steps, each asking more of the file — start wherever you like.
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See a sample report →
See a sample report
A fully de-identified review, end to end — see how a file reads before you trust the method. One click, nothing to submit.
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Pressure-test your process — 3 min →
Pressure-test your process
See where a termination file is exposed before the notice goes out — a 3-minute self-assessment, no case detail.
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Run a live case with the founders →
Run a live case with the founders
One live or recent termination. De-identified intake generated locally; a structured defensibility review returned, typically within 72 hours.
Or discuss deployment first — on-prem available for founding design partners.