SOC 2 & ISO 27001 Compliance for Early-Stage Startups
Land Your First Enterprise Customers Without Hiring a Compliance Team
You built a product enterprise customers want. Now they're asking for your SOC 2 report. Get audit-ready without derailing your roadmap or pulling engineers off feature work for months.
The Enterprise Sales Plot Twist
Six months ago, you were focused on product-market fit. Now you're in conversations with Fortune 500 companies. The pilot went well. The champion is excited. Procurement is ready to move forward.
Then the email arrives: "We'll need your SOC 2 Type II report to proceed."
You have three engineers, two on the product team, and a founding team stretched across sales, fundraising, and hiring. Nobody has "get SOC 2 certified" in their job description.
The options all look bad:
- ×Hire external help and wait six months (your competitor won't wait)
- ×Pull your CTO off product work for weeks (your roadmap can't afford it)
- ×Tell the enterprise customer "we're working on it" (they've heard that before)
- ×Turn down enterprise deals and stay in SMB forever (not why you raised capital)
There's a different path: structured compliance that fits your reality.
Start With Both Frameworks From Day One
Most startups make a costly mistake: they get SOC 2 compliant, then discover their European customers need ISO 27001. Now they're doing compliance work twice.
We've mapped 103 controls that cover both SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria and ISO 27001 requirements simultaneously. Document your security posture once. Satisfy both frameworks.
Future-proof your compliance investment
When you expand internationally or when enterprise customers in different regions have different requirements, you're already covered. No compliance do-overs.
Efficient use of limited resources
You don't have spare engineering cycles. Documenting evidence once for both frameworks means you can get back to building product faster.
Investor and customer confidence
Dual-framework readiness signals you're building for scale. It's not just checking a box for one customer - it's establishing a foundation that supports growth.
How It Works: Compliance That Doesn't Consume Your Team
Assign
The platform translates compliance requirements into actionable tasks. Instead of "implement access controls," your team sees "Document who has production access and how permissions are granted." Clear assignments. No compliance expertise required.
Auto-scheduling manages recurring requirements automatically. Monthly access reviews, quarterly security training, annual risk assessments - the system tracks what's due and assigns it to the right person. Compliance becomes routine, not emergency.
Upload
Your team uploads evidence as they complete tasks: policy documents, screenshots of configurations, architecture diagrams, or text descriptions of how controls work. Multiple file formats supported. Add context in plain language.
No intrusive integrations required. We don't need API access to your production systems. No agents scanning your infrastructure. You decide what evidence to share. Your small team maintains control without security risks.
Report
Generate Gap Analysis reports before enterprise sales calls, board meetings, or investor due diligence. See exactly where you stand. Know which controls are documented and which need attention.
When you're ready for the audit, Pre-Audit Reports organize all your evidence in the format auditors expect. Your assessor gets everything they need. Your team isn't hunting through Notion pages and Slack threads for that policy from last quarter.
Track Your Lean Startup Stack
Early-stage startups run lean. You're using SaaS tools for everything. Each tool represents a potential security risk that enterprise customers care about.
Built-in Vendor Tracking
Helps you document your technology dependencies:
- Cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Development and productivity tools
- Data storage and processing services
- Communication and collaboration platforms
- Third-party APIs and integrations
Asset Tracking
Documents what you've built and where customer data lives:
- Production environments and databases
- Development and staging systems
- Customer data storage and backups
- Admin access points and dashboards
When enterprise customers ask about your security architecture, you have documentation ready. When auditors want to understand third-party risks, the vendor landscape is already documented.
Stay Ready for Enterprise Conversations
Enterprise sales cycles are unpredictable. You never know when the next qualified lead will appear or when they'll ask for compliance documentation.
Periodic Gap Analysis Reports
Keep you continuously aware of your compliance posture. When opportunity knocks, you know exactly how close you are to audit-ready. No surprises. No scrambling.
Multi-Organization Support
Prepares you for scale. Planning to establish an entity in the EU? Considering a UK subsidiary for international expansion? The platform supports multiple organizations from day one.
Built for Small Teams Moving Fast
You're pre-Series B. Every hour counts. Every dollar matters. Compliance can't become a six-month distraction.
Role-based access
Means founders, engineers, and contractors see only what's relevant
Task management
Integrates with how your team already works - no new tools to adopt
Evidence management
Captures documentation as you build, not in a panic before the audit
Compliance becomes part of your operational rhythm. Not a crisis. Not a blocker. Just work that happens alongside everything else.
The Math That Makes Sense
Traditional Compliance Path
- ×External compliance services: $50,000+
- ×Engineering time: 200+ hours
- ×Timeline: 6 months
- ×Total cost: $80,000+ when you account for opportunity cost
Our Approach
- Platform cost: Fraction of traditional compliance costs
- Engineering time: Focused on evidence, not research
- Timeline: Weeks, not months
- Total cost: Affordable for seed and Series A budgets
You're not avoiding compliance work, you're doing it efficiently. With guidance. Without losing half a year.
The Choice: Build Now or Build Later
Some founders wait until enterprise deals are "more serious" before investing in compliance. Then they watch opportunities evaporate during six-month security reviews.
Others start compliance work the moment enterprise interest appears. They close deals their competitors can't. They build credibility with investors who see operational maturity. They establish security practices that prevent costly incidents later.
You can't predict when the next enterprise opportunity arrives. You can be ready when it does.
Get Your Startup Compliance Roadmap
See exactly what's required to achieve SOC 2 and ISO 27001 readiness with your current team and resources. Our Gap Analysis report shows which controls are completed and which are still pending, giving you a clear view of your readiness status.
Ready to stop losing enterprise deals to compliance delays? Let's document your path to audit-ready - without derailing your roadmap.