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banglabiz.gov.bd, audited 28 Sep 2026

The right idea, shipped at 40%. Here is the other 60%.

Everything below was read on the live site, its public CMS API, its two user-guide PDFs, or its response headers. Nothing was probed beyond what any browser sends. Left: what stands today. Right: what this design does instead.

Services listed
622
but 458 show no fee and 456 no processing time
Hosted natively
30
the other 592 redirect to five older portals
"Details coming soon"
106
service descriptions, four spellings of "details"
Home page weight
1.26 MB
HTML alone; 2.6 to 3.6 s to first byte from abroad
Product and contentTechnologyMissing layers
On banglabiz.gov.bd todayWhy it fails the userIn this design
"Ready to start" on the Starter Package links to the UAT environment (bbp-r2uat.oss.net.bd); "Search for services" on Know Your Approvals also links to UATThe main call to action sends the public to a test serverOne production entry; every button in this design goes somewhere real
Contact Support goes to /contact (404); Terms and Privacy go to /others (404); the real privacy page renders "Loading... Please wait"No legal terms a foreign compliance officer can readPublished standard, fee schedule, refusal policy, data-sharing terms, one click from every page
Four investment agencies carry the same placeholder phone, a private email and the address "thai road"; three agency cards are all named "Invest Bangladesh Authority"Reads as unfinished; the merger of August 2026 is half-absorbedOne Authority, one helpdesk, one ticket number with an SLA
Of 622 services, 458 have no fee, 456 no time, 106 say "Details coming soon"; BSCIC entries are machine-translated nonsense; two "Work Permit" entries with SLA text "SLA"The catalogue cannot answer the only three questions a founder has: what, how much, how longService catalogue where every row shows fee, time, who files it and whether it is online, partial or manual (see Service catalogue)
Foreign users must eKYC by ePassport NFC through the OneID mobile app; web path is NID only. Signatories e-sign through a separate app (TickThik)Three apps and an NFC phone to sign one form; no path for a non-ePassport holderPassport scan plus liveness in the browser; e-signature in the same session; officer review in Today mode
Status tracking only inside a logged-in dashboard; no public case lookup; helpdesk promises a reply "within 24 hours" with no ticketA founder abroad cannot see where their file is without logging in through the appsTrack a case by reference number, per-agency timers, public SLA dashboard
Stat tiles: "45+ projects facilitated", "95% success rate", two tiles with no number; no date, no sourceNumbers nobody can checkEvery figure dated, sourced, and drawn from the operator ledgers
Footer: "best viewed in 1024 x 768 with Internet Explorer"; last reviewed 15 Oct 2025; USD rates as of Sept 2025; Bengali pages keep English footer labelsSignals nobody owns the pageResponsive, dated, one owner per page