You are building a company. You have a small team, a growing product, and enterprise prospects who keep asking if you are SOC 2 compliant. You cannot afford six months on compliance — but you also cannot afford to keep losing deals because you are not certified. We built our programme specifically for startups. Fast, practical, no bureaucracy.
10–12 weeks
98% of our SaaS clients
4–6 hrs/week during active phase
AWS, Azure, GCP — all scoped correctly
Fixed fee — agreed before we start
Most startup founders assume SOC 2 is something they will deal with when they are bigger. Then a $200K enterprise deal stalls because of a security questionnaire. The reality is that SOC 2 is now part of enterprise sales — not a late-stage compliance project.
When an enterprise prospect asks if you are SOC 2 compliant and you say no, the deal dies or gets deprioritised while they evaluate compliant alternatives. SOC 2 means you say yes with confidence. Our clients routinely close their first post-certification enterprise deal within weeks of receiving their report.
Without SOC 2, answering a security questionnaire takes your engineering team days of work per deal. With a SOC 2 report, most questionnaire answers are already documented — you share the report and move on. Sales cycles shorten. Your engineers stay focused on product.
SOC 2 certification signals operational maturity. Series A and Series B investors increasingly include security and compliance maturity in their due diligence process for B2B SaaS companies. Several of our clients have cited SOC 2 certification as a positive factor in their fundraising conversations.
Healthcare, financial services, insurance, and government sectors effectively exclude non-certified vendors. SOC 2 is your entry ticket to these markets. Startups that get certified early can win in verticals that their non-certified competitors — however good their product — simply cannot access.
We build every control specifically for your company’s architecture and team capacity — not a generic checklist designed for a different type of organisation.
The biggest fear startups have about SOC 2 is how much time it will consume. Our programme is designed to minimise the burden on your engineering and product teams. We lead every phase — gap assessment, control implementation, policy development, evidence organisation, and audit preparation. Your team's involvement is targeted and structured — not open-ended.
Most startups already have more of the security foundation in place than they realise. Your cloud infrastructure has built-in security features. Your SaaS tools have access controls. You probably have some policies written already. We assess what you have, give you credit for it, and build only what is genuinely missing.
We provide a complete library of auditor-approved policy templates and control frameworks specifically designed for cloud-native, SaaS-model startups. Customisation takes hours, not weeks. What takes other companies months to write, we deploy in days — then work with you to make them reflect how your company actually operates.
Compliance projects that go over budget are painful for any company. For a startup, they can be catastrophic. We quote a fixed fee before we start, covering everything from gap assessment through audit preparation. You know your total investment on day one — and it does not change.
We assess your current controls, cloud infrastructure, policies, and vendor relationships. Most early-stage startups have 40–60% of SOC 2 requirements already in some form from standard cloud security practices. The gap assessment tells you exactly what is missing and how long it will take to build.
We implement the controls your startup needs, deploy customised policy templates, set up evidence collection processes, and build the documentation your auditor will review. Your engineering involvement is typically 3–5 structured hours per week — not an open-ended time commitment.
We conduct a mock audit, compile your evidence package, and brief your team on what to expect from the formal audit. Our startup clients pass on the first attempt at a rate of 98%. This preparation phase is why.
Your independent CPA auditor conducts the formal review. We manage the process alongside you. Within a few weeks of the audit completing, you have your SOC 2 report — ready to share with every prospect, investor, or partner who asks.
Kick-off to first SOC 2 report
Average weekly engineering commitment
Passed audit on first attempt
If your question is not here, just email us — we will give you a straight answer.
Not if you are selling to enterprise customers. Company size does not determine whether SOC 2 is appropriate — your customer base does. We have helped 5-person startups get certified because an enterprise deal required it, and we have helped 200-person companies that had been avoiding it for years. If an enterprise prospect is asking, it is not too early.
Total costs have two components: advisory and implementation (our fees, fixed and agreed upfront), and audit fees (charged by your independent CPA auditor, typically $8,000–$20,000 for a startup). The combined total for most early-stage startups is lower than you might expect — and the ROI from the first enterprise deal it unlocks typically covers the entire cost many times over. Book a call and we will give you a specific quote.
Technically yes. In practice, most startups that attempt it without guidance take 2–3 times longer, make scoping mistakes that require rework, write policies that do not pass auditor review, and find the evidence collection process far more burdensome than necessary. For a startup where engineering time is your most valuable resource, the cost of a good advisory firm almost always pays for itself in time saved.
For most startups, start Type 1 now and begin your Type 2 observation period at the same time. Type 1 takes 10–12 weeks and gives you a credible SOC 2 report to share with prospects immediately. Many mid-market enterprise buyers will accept Type 1, especially when you can show Type 2 is in progress. By starting Type 2 simultaneously, you have your Type 2 report roughly 8–12 months later without any wasted time between them.
Yes. Increasingly, Series A and Series B investors include security and compliance maturity in their due diligence process — particularly for B2B SaaS companies selling to enterprises. A SOC 2 report (or a credible programme in progress) demonstrates operational maturity and reduces investor concern about regulatory and reputational risk. Several of our clients have cited SOC 2 certification as a positive factor in their fundraising conversations.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. A senior advisor — not a sales rep — will talk honestly about your compliance situation and exactly what it will take to get you where you need to be.
After remediation, confirm you are genuinely ready before your auditor arrives. Our readiness assessment runs the same tests your auditor will run.
We stay with you through the formal audit — managing auditor requests, reviewing evidence, and handling every question until your report is issued.
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