Enterprise deals are asking for your SOC 2 report. We run a structured SOC 2 readiness assessment that finds every gap before the auditor does — then give you a prioritized roadmap to close them and walk in audit-ready.
A dry run of the audit — before the audit counts
A SOC 2 readiness assessment is a structured evaluation of your controls against the Trust Services Criteria (Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy). Instead of discovering gaps during a formal audit — when fixes are expensive and delays cost you deals — you find and fix them first, on your timeline.
• Complete gap analysis against SOC 2 criteria
• Prioritized remediation roadmap
• Evidence templates and sample evidence
• A realistic timeline to audit-readiness
• Confidence heading into the formal audit
Everything you need to walk into the audit prepared
Control-by-control evaluation against the applicable Trust Services Criteria. Every gap is documented, scored by severity, and tied to a specific remediation action — no vague "improve access management" findings.
We map your existing controls to each SOC 2 criterion so you can see what already counts, what needs hardening, and what's missing entirely. Existing investments get full credit.
Ready-to-use evidence collection templates for each control: access reviews, change tickets, training logs, vulnerability scan reports. Your team collects evidence in the auditor's preferred format from day one.
A phased, prioritized plan with owners, effort estimates, and dependencies. Quick wins first, heavy lifts sequenced around your product calendar — typically an 8–12 week path to audit-ready.
A practice run with auditor-style walkthroughs and sampling. Your team learns how to answer auditor questions, defend control designs, and present evidence — before anything is on the record.
Guidance through the evidence-collection period (typically 3–6 months for Type 2). We keep your evidence clean, consistent, and complete so there are no surprises at sampling time.
From kickoff to audit-ready in four phases
System scoping and boundary definition. Stakeholder interviews across engineering, security, and operations. Inventory of existing controls, policies, and tooling.
Gap analysis against the Trust Services Criteria. Control mapping, evidence sampling, and policy review. The gaps report with severity ratings and remediation owners.
Your team executes the roadmap with our guidance: control implementation, policy rollout, evidence collection setup, tooling configuration. We review progress weekly.
Auditor-style walkthroughs and sampling. Readiness sign-off report you can share with your audit firm. Then we support you through the observation window.
What "audit-ready" actually means
Every finding that would have appeared in the formal audit is caught and fixed during readiness. Your auditor sees a clean, well-evidenced control environment.
Clean evidence from day one means fewer auditor hours, fewer follow-ups, and lower audit fees. Readiness typically pays for itself in reduced audit cost alone.
While the audit runs, your team can answer enterprise security questionnaires with documented controls instead of aspirational promises — unblocking deals immediately.
You keep the templates, the evidence routines, and the control framework. Year-two audits become routine instead of another scramble.
Common questions answered
Scope is driven by the services and data you sell to customers. Most SaaS companies start with the Security criterion (mandatory) and add Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, or Privacy based on what their enterprise customers ask about. We help you define a scope that satisfies customer demand without over-scoping.
The assessment itself takes 4–6 weeks. Getting to fully audit-ready — assessment plus remediation — typically takes 8–12 weeks depending on team size and starting maturity. Add a 3–6 month observation window for Type 2 before the formal audit period.
Yes. Readiness is auditor-independent — we prepare you, and a licensed CPA firm performs the attestation. We can coordinate with the firm you've selected or introduce you to firms that audit companies at your stage. We never perform the attestation ourselves, which avoids independence conflicts.
Type 1 evaluates control design at a point in time and is faster — useful when a deal can't wait. Type 2 evaluates operating effectiveness over 3–12 months and is what mature enterprise buyers expect. Most companies start with Type 1, then move to Type 2. Your readiness assessment prepares you for either.
Readiness typically costs a fraction of the formal audit and pays for itself by shortening audit time and avoiding re-audits. Costs vary with company size, scope, and starting maturity — most SaaS engagements land in the tens of thousands, far less than a failed audit and the lost deals behind it.
That's the point. Almost no company is fully ready on the first pass — readiness exists to surface gaps cheaply, before the auditor's clock is running. You'll get a prioritized, phased roadmap so you fix the highest-impact items first and reach audit-ready in 8–12 weeks.
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Let's scope your readiness assessment and find your gaps before the auditor does.