A guarantee is a promise. Blocking is proof.
Captain Compliance pairs a certified consent banner with a litigation guarantee. PieEye blocks third-party scripts before consent and shows you — with evidence — what your site actually does, so you can hand your attorney a report instead of a screenshot.
Captain Compliance is a capable, certified CMP with a real free plan, and its Compliance Shield promises to financially back qualifying claims. But by its own terms the Shield covers only what runs through the platform on recommended settings — it excludes trackers and data flows outside the platform. Those outside scripts — ad pixels, chat widgets, session replay — are exactly what CIPA wiretap (§ 631) and Florida FSCA demand letters cite. PieEye is built for that problem: it blocks third-party scripts before consent, logs every decision, and gives you a scan report of what fires on your live store. If you are an eCommerce brand worried about a demand letter, PieEye is the better fit. If you want an IAB TCF-certified banner with a vendor guarantee and will run it exactly as configured, Captain Compliance is a reasonable choice.
| Feature | PieEye | Captain Compliance |
|---|---|---|
| Geo-targeted consent banner | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cookie scanning | ✓ Plus a free public scanner graded for CIPA, FSCA, CCPA, GDPR, MHMD | ✓ 50 scans on the free plan; 500 scanned pages on Professional |
| Blocks third-party scripts before consent | ✓ Script-level blocking (Trap and Trace Shield) | Claims auto-blocking; on Shopify, apps that ignore the Customer Privacy API are not gated, per its help center |
| Live check of what fires (fresh, Reject, GPC) | ✓ Free opt-out check with captured evidence | Patrol (launched Sep 2026), sold by scan volume from 1,500 scans a month |
| Litigation guarantee | Not offered — we provide evidence, not legal promises | Compliance Shield on Professional and Enterprise; excludes trackers outside the platform and non-recommended settings; no published cap |
| Evidence for counsel | Scan report + consent logs, exportable | Consent records; Patrol HAR reports |
| DSAR handling | ✓ Automated across 500+ commerce connectors | DSAR portal; automated DSAR on Enterprise |
| eCommerce fit | Native — Shopify, BigCommerce, custom storefronts | Shopify via Customer Privacy API; no App Store listing found |
| IAB TCF / Google-certified CMP | IAB TCF 2.2 and Consent Mode v2 support | ✓ IAB TCF certified, Google CMP program |
| Free plan | ✓ Free tier + free public scanner | ✓ 1 domain, 2,500 views/month |
| Paid entry point | Scoped in a demo | Professional $499/month (1 domain, 150,000 views/month), via demo |
| Security attestation | SOC 2 Type II (A-LIGN) | Drata partnership for customers pursuing SOC 2 |
Captain Compliance capabilities and pricing characterized from its public website, help center, and press materials, reviewed October 5, 2026; they may change. Where Captain Compliance is genuinely strong — certification, free plan, agency program — this comparison says so.
Compliance Shield is the centerpiece of Captain Compliance's pitch, and it deserves a careful read. Per its public page, the Shield applies to functions actively managed and enforced through Captain Compliance, with the platform installed correctly and recommended settings enabled. It excludes trackers or data flows outside the platform, configurations that differ from recommended settings, and activity before deployment or after removal. The page names no dollar cap, no insurer, and no claims process, and says customers on discounted plans move to wholesale pricing after a qualifying claim. Ask the questions any buyer would: what does it pay, who pays it, and does it cover the script your demand letter actually names? PieEye doesn't answer with a counter-guarantee. We answer with what we block by default, and the evidence that it stayed blocked.
Captain Compliance's help center explains that on Shopify its banner writes consent to Shopify's Customer Privacy API — apps that honor that signal are gated, and apps that ignore it keep firing, with Google Tag Manager suggested for scripts that need precise control. That is an honest description of how Shopify's framework works, and it's the gap most broken banners fall into. PieEye was built for Shopify and BigCommerce storefronts and blocks third-party scripts before consent at the script level, so a pixel that ignores Shopify's consent signal still waits for the shopper's answer. The fastest way to see the difference on your own store is to scan it.
When a CIPA or FSCA letter arrives, the first question from counsel is factual: which trackers fired, when, and before or after consent? PieEye's scan report and consent logs answer that directly — a dated record of what your live site did. Captain Compliance has moved toward the same idea with Patrol, a forensic scanner launched in September 2026 and sold to compliance teams, cyber insurers, and privacy law firms by scan volume. PieEye's version starts with a free scan any brand can run in about 60 seconds, then keeps the blocking switched on afterward.
This isn't a page that pretends the competitor is weak. Captain Compliance says it runs on more than 8,000 websites, holds IAB TCF certification and Google CMP program status, offers a free plan with no demo required, and runs an agency referral program with done-for-you implementation. Its Drata partnership is useful for teams pursuing SOC 2 at the same time. If you need a certified CMP for programmatic advertising and want a vendor-backed guarantee, it is a serious option. PieEye wins when the risk is in the scripts, not the banner.
PieEye doesn't give legal advice and doesn't promise outcomes. We give you and your counsel facts: what fires, what's blocked, and what each visitor consented to. That restraint is deliberate. A demand letter is a legal problem with a technical root cause, and the brands that resolve them fastest fix the root cause and document it.
Run the free scan on your live store — even with another vendor's banner installed — and see every tracker that fires before consent. Then book a demo to switch on pre-consent blocking.