Effortless agent compliance. Real-time visibility.
HE Comply centralises agent agreements, approvals, and audit trails. We reduce risk and give leaders live visibility of crucial agent performance data.
Why we built HE Comply
International recruitment is changing fast. The Agent Quality Framework (AQF) brings added layers of process and checks. Already-stretched university teams must protect compliance whilst still delivering growth. Yet many lack the requisite holistic visibility of contracts, commission / bonus terms, and compliance indicators. This creates risk for executive teams and slows corrective decision-making.
When I started my career in international recruitment twenty years ago, agency agreements were held in local C:Drives or on email threads, and commission was tracked in spreadsheets. It was hard to evidence why decisions were taken, and audits were always a challenge. For some universities, little has changed in two decades despite agents often now contributing significant fee revenue.
With increased pressures on operational staff, we built HE Comply to make it simpler for HEIs to deliver against compliance and commercial targets.
We save you time, reduce errors, and improve senior leader reporting. We would be happy to give you a brief demo and discuss how HE Comply may benefit your institution.
Why digital is better
Link sub-agents to their master agent. Record approvals, territories and commission rules. See who is authorised and stop unapproved routing.
Instant access to all agent contracts and commercial terms, including bonus structures. No missing versions. Continuity when staff move on.
Every change captured with who, what, and when. Faster reviews and clearer accountability. AQF-compliant practice across your operations.
View results by agent and sub-agent against contracted terms, territories and programmes. Act on exceptions early, not post-cycle.
Can your university do all this today?
Record who approved what and when. Track expiries and automate renewals for trusted partners. Export clean evidence for reviews in minutes.
Compliantly vary terms to capture quality student supply. No more lengthy email chains and uncertain student origins.
The Good Practice Guide requires universities to track this at sub-agent level. Is your team doing this today?
FAQs
International recruitment through agents can cost millions, and all activity begins with - and is driven by - the contracts. Costs and outcomes cannot be fully optimised without accurate performance data at the contract level, yet most HEIs lack this.
With growing regulation, including the Agent Quality Framework (AQF), senior leaders need clear oversight of who is making decisions around recruitment partners. Relying on shared folders or local drives leaves university executive teams exposed to risk.
You decide who has access and what permissions they hold. A CFO or COO may act as an approver on new or renewed contracts before release to the agent. International Office staff may manage contracts operationally, or these may be routed through Legal. Executive leaders can be granted full visibility.
Contracts can be shared selectively with individual staff, and universities can choose whether agents see the same agreements.
Yes. Partnered agencies can record their sub-agents, and universities can adjust this list by country or by agency. Sub-agents posing risk or showing weak conversion can be restricted from submitting applications. Again, AQF makes this a prerequisite for UK HEIs, yet most have no visibility of their extensive sub-agent networks.
This also supports market focus, allowing universities to prioritise certain regions and pause others as intake needs or visa risk ratings change.
HE Comply is GDPR compliant. Contract data is held securely in the UK and EU (AWS and DocuSign), with encryption in transit and at rest. We do not access your data or use commission values for AI training.
This is significantly more secure than the common practice of sharing contracts by email.
Yes. Each contract includes single-click audit reporting. You can see who initiates, signs, manages and views agreements, including agency users. Any amendments or requests are also recorded. This is now crucial under AQF.
After an initial discussion and demo, setup takes 20–30 minutes. We support users step by step and provide one-to-one assistance if required. No on-premise installation is needed, and support is available across major time zones. We are often in the UK on business, also.
Yes. We can connect directly with your existing data sources on request to enable richer information and reporting, such as live acquisition cost data by agency / market / program.
Feezy is the company which owns HE Comply. Feezy was founded in 2022 in Sydney, Australia, and allows agencies and universities to transact digitally.
Feezy was established by an ex-international recruitment director with 15 years' experience in UK (Sheffield, Swansea, Aston) & Australian (ANU, Adelaide) universities.
Agencies use www.feezy.io to manage their contracts and can invite university partners to co-manage agreements in our platform.