Compliance Should Protect Your Business,
Not Consume the People Running It.
SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 27001, PCI DSS — the frameworks exist for good reason. But meeting them through manual evidence collection, spreadsheet tracking, and quarterly scrambles drains the time and attention of teams who have more important work to do. We build compliance automation systems that make your security posture continuous, your evidence always current, and your audit process something you can approach without dread.
"$14.82 Million" — the average cost of non-compliance for organisations, nearly three times the cost of maintaining compliance proactively. (Globalscape / Ponemon Institute)
Compliance Done Manually Is an Enormous Amount of Work for a Certificate.
Most organisations treat compliance as a periodic event — a scramble to gather evidence, answer questionnaires, and demonstrate controls that should have been running continuously. The cost of that approach is measured in weeks, not hours.
Audit preparation consumes months of engineering and operations time
The weeks before an audit — collecting screenshots, chasing control owners, populating evidence folders, answering auditor questions — represent a significant and recurring cost that scales poorly as your systems and team grow. Time spent on compliance theatre is time not spent on the work your organisation was built to do.
Controls are documented but not continuously verified
A control that is documented in your compliance platform as passing may have drifted from its required state weeks ago — a permission change, a configuration update, a new system added without being brought into scope. Manual compliance catches this at audit time. Automated compliance catches it the day it happens.
Every new framework means starting the compliance process again
SOC 2 last year, HIPAA this year, ISO 27001 next year as an enterprise customer requires it — each new framework arrives as a separate project, often overlapping significantly with the work already done and yet somehow requiring it all again. The overlap between frameworks is enormous. The effort duplication is almost entirely avoidable.
Security questionnaires are blocking deals and consuming sales cycles
Enterprise prospects require evidence of your security posture before they will proceed. The questionnaire arrives. Someone on your team — often in engineering or security — spends days answering it manually, pulling evidence from wherever it lives. The next questionnaire arrives three weeks later and the process begins again. It is one of the most expensive hidden costs in an enterprise sales motion.
Compliance That Runs Continuously, Not Just Before an Audit
We design and implement compliance automation systems that connect to your infrastructure, monitor your controls in real time, collect evidence automatically as it is generated, and maintain the documentation your auditors and customers require — without a quarterly scramble to produce it. The frameworks you need to meet become a continuous state rather than a periodic project. Your audit becomes a review of a system that has been working all year rather than a reconstruction of events from the past twelve months.
Compliance Obligations Are Shaped by the Industry You Operate In
The frameworks that apply to a healthcare technology company are different from those that apply to a financial services firm, a SaaS business selling into enterprise, or a retailer processing card payments. The controls required, the evidence expected, and the regulators involved differ significantly. We bring contextual understanding to every engagement — so the compliance programme we build reflects the specific obligations of your industry, not a generic framework map.
SaaS & Technology
Where SOC 2 Type II has become the enterprise sales prerequisite, and the ability to answer security questionnaires quickly and credibly determines whether deals progress or stall.
Healthcare & Digital Health
Where HIPAA compliance is a legal obligation, the consequences of a breach extend to patient harm, and the evidence of compliance must be continuous rather than reconstructed at audit time.
Financial Services & Fintech
Where PCI DSS, SOC 1, and a range of regulatory frameworks overlap, the audit calendar is relentless, and the cost of a compliance failure is measured in regulatory sanctions as well as reputational damage.
E-commerce & Retail
Where PCI DSS compliance for payment card processing is a baseline requirement, and the volume of customer data held creates GDPR and CCPA obligations that require active, documented management.
Professional Services & Legal
Where client confidentiality obligations, data processing agreements, and increasingly demanding enterprise customer security requirements create a compliance landscape that grows more complex with every new client relationship.
Education & EdTech
Where student data protection obligations, FERPA requirements, and the security expectations of institutional partners create a compliance burden that most education organisations manage reactively rather than systematically.
Government & Public Sector
Where compliance with cyber security frameworks, data protection legislation, and procurement security requirements is a condition of operation — and where the evidence of compliance must be unambiguous and continuously maintained.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Where supply chain security requirements from enterprise customers, ISO 27001 expectations from procurement teams, and operational technology security obligations are converging into a compliance landscape that manual processes cannot keep pace with.
Deep Technical Expertise
What we build, integrated seamlessly into your existing operations.
SOC 2 Readiness & Automation
End-to-end support for SOC 2 Type I and Type II — from gap assessment and control design through continuous monitoring, automated evidence collection, and audit support — so the process is a review of a running programme rather than a construction project.
GDPR & Privacy Compliance Automation
Systematic implementation of GDPR controls — data mapping, processing register maintenance, consent management, subject rights workflows, breach notification procedures, and the documentation framework that demonstrates accountability to regulators.
HIPAA Compliance Programme
Design and implementation of HIPAA administrative, physical, and technical safeguards — with automated monitoring of the controls that protect ePHI, documentation of required policies, and the audit trail that demonstrates continuous compliance.
ISO 27001 Implementation & Certification Support
Gap assessment against ISO 27001, information security management system design, risk assessment and treatment, control implementation, and certification audit preparation — with automation of the evidence collection and control monitoring that makes the standard maintainable after certification.
PCI DSS Compliance Automation
Implementation and continuous monitoring of PCI DSS controls across your cardholder data environment — with automated evidence collection, vulnerability scanning integration, and the documentation required for QSA assessment.
Continuous Control Monitoring
Automated, real-time monitoring of your security controls against your compliance requirements — so drift from required configurations, new systems out of scope, or policy violations are detected and flagged the day they occur rather than the day before the audit.
Automated Evidence Collection
Integration with your cloud infrastructure, identity providers, endpoint management, and development tools to collect compliance evidence automatically as it is generated — eliminating the manual screenshot-gathering and evidence-chasing that consumes weeks of team time each audit cycle.
Security Policy Development
Comprehensive information security policies, procedures, and standards written for your specific environment — not generic templates renamed with your logo, but policies that reflect how your organisation actually operates and that your team can realistically follow.
Vendor & Third-Party Risk Management
A systematic process for assessing, documenting, and monitoring the security posture of your vendors and third-party processors — with standardised assessment questionnaires, risk scoring, and ongoing monitoring for the suppliers that access your systems or data.
Security Questionnaire Automation
A structured, maintained library of your security posture answers — mapped to the frameworks you comply with — that enables your team to respond to customer security questionnaires accurately and quickly rather than reconstructing answers from scratch each time.
Risk Assessment & Treatment
Formal risk identification, analysis, and treatment processes — documented in a risk register that is maintained continuously rather than populated at audit time — with clear ownership, treatment decisions, and residual risk acceptance documented for each identified risk.
Multi-Framework Mapping & Overlap Analysis
For organisations subject to multiple compliance frameworks, a unified control mapping that identifies the overlaps — so the evidence collected and the controls implemented for one framework contribute to the others, eliminating the duplication that makes multi-framework compliance so expensive.
From Understanding Your Obligations to a Compliance Programme That Runs Itself
Compliance automation works when it is built on a genuine understanding of your specific obligations, your current posture, and the systems and processes your organisation actually uses. Here is how we develop that understanding and translate it into a programme that is sustainable rather than just sufficient.
Understanding Your Obligations and Your Current Posture
We begin by mapping the compliance frameworks that apply to your organisation — their specific requirements, the evidence they demand, and the controls they require. Against that map, we assess your current posture honestly — what is already in place, what is partially implemented, what is absent, and what is documented but not actually working. The gap between obligation and reality is where the programme begins.
Designing the Controls and the Evidence Approach
We design the control framework your organisation needs — mapped to your specific obligations, appropriate for your size and operational context, and implementable by your team without requiring security expertise in every role. We define how evidence will be collected, how controls will be monitored, and how the programme will be managed on an ongoing basis before anything is built.
Implementing Automation and Integrating Your Systems
We implement the compliance platform and automation layer — connecting to your cloud environments, identity providers, endpoint management tools, and development systems to begin collecting evidence and monitoring controls automatically. Policies are written, procedures are documented, and the manual processes that remain are defined clearly enough that they are followed consistently.
Preparing for Your First Audit or Assessment
We support your first formal audit or assessment under the new programme — preparing your evidence package, briefing your team on what to expect, reviewing documentation for completeness, and being available to support the auditor's questions with the technical context they require. The goal is an audit that confirms a programme that has been running, not one that tests whether you can reconstruct the appearance of one.
Maintaining, Monitoring, and Expanding
After your first audit, we support the ongoing operation of your compliance programme — monitoring control health, managing evidence collection, handling new systems and vendor additions, and expanding coverage as your obligations grow. Compliance is not a project that ends at certification. It is a programme that must remain current as your organisation evolves.
Who This Works Best For
Compliance automation delivers the most meaningful value in specific conditions. We would rather help you understand what kind of engagement your situation actually calls for than propose a programme that is more than you need or less than your obligations require.
You have a specific compliance framework you are required or committed to meet
SOC 2 for enterprise customers, HIPAA as a healthcare technology business, GDPR as an organisation processing EU personal data, PCI DSS as a business taking card payments — a defined obligation with a real deadline or a real business consequence creates the right conditions for a systematic compliance programme. The investment makes sense when the stakes of non-compliance are clear.
Your current compliance approach is manual and does not scale
If your compliance evidence lives in a shared drive of screenshots, your risk register is a spreadsheet someone updates twice a year, and your audit preparation consumes six weeks of engineering time — automation addresses each of those pain points directly. The return is not just time saved. It is a programme that is more reliable and more defensible than the manual equivalent.
You are handling customer or patient data that creates real compliance obligations
Personal data, health information, financial records, payment data — the sensitivity of the data your organisation handles determines the seriousness of the compliance obligations that apply to it. Organisations that handle sensitive data and treat compliance as optional are not choosing between cost and compliance. They are choosing between managed risk and unmanaged risk.
Security questionnaires are affecting your sales cycle
If the answer to a customer's security questionnaire is currently 'we will get back to you in two weeks' — and that delay is measurable in deal velocity — compliance automation that produces a maintained, accurate, queryable answer to your security posture has a direct commercial return that can be calculated before the programme begins.
And when a different approach might serve you better
If you are a very early-stage organisation with minimal data handling and no current enterprise customer requirements, a lightweight compliance foundation may be more proportionate than a full automation programme. If you are uncertain which frameworks apply to your situation, the right starting point is a compliance scoping conversation rather than a programme implementation. We will tell you clearly when a simpler or different approach would serve you better — and when a framework requirement is being proposed to you by a vendor or advisor that you do not actually need.
A Compliance Programme That Is Yours to Run, Maintain, and Demonstrate
Everything we build belongs entirely to you — the policies, the control framework, the automation configuration, the evidence library, the documentation. Here is what a thoughtfully scoped compliance automation engagement delivers.
A mapped, implemented control framework
Controls designed for your specific obligations, implemented in your environment, and documented with clear ownership — so every requirement has a defined control, every control has an owner, and every owner knows what they are responsible for maintaining.
Automated evidence collection and a continuously updated evidence library
An evidence library that populates itself — pulling screenshots, logs, configuration exports, and access records automatically from your connected systems — so your audit evidence is always current rather than reconstructed under time pressure.
Comprehensive security policies and procedures
A complete policy suite written for your organisation — covering the requirements of your applicable frameworks in language your team can understand and follow, with review schedules and ownership defined from the outset.
Continuous control monitoring and alerting
Real-time monitoring of your compliance controls — with alerts when a control drifts from its required state, when a new system falls outside compliance scope, or when a required action has not been completed within its required timeframe.
Audit support materials and a roadmap for ongoing compliance
A structured evidence package ready for auditor review, a documented explanation of your control environment, and a clear roadmap for maintaining and expanding your compliance programme as your obligations and your organisation evolve.
The Kinds of Problems We Are Built For
Every organisation that comes to us arrives with something specific. Here are the situations where compliance automation has made a genuine, lasting difference.
SaaS & Technology
A B2B SaaS company was consistently losing enterprise deals at the security review stage — prospects requiring SOC 2 Type II before proceeding, the company having neither the certification nor a clear path to achieving it. We conducted a gap assessment, designed and implemented the control framework, connected their AWS environment and identity provider for automated evidence collection, and supported them through their first Type II audit. Certification was achieved in eight months. The sales team reported that security had moved from a recurring objection to a topic they were able to address confidently from the first conversation.
Digital Health
A digital health startup handling ePHI was operating under a HIPAA compliance programme that consisted primarily of a privacy policy and a BAA template. A potential enterprise health system partner conducted a security review and raised concerns about the gaps between the stated programme and the actual controls in place. We designed and implemented a full HIPAA compliance programme — administrative safeguards, technical controls, workforce training, and the audit trail required to demonstrate continuous compliance. The health system partnership proceeded. The compliance programme that emerged from the process was one the founding team described as something they should have built at the beginning.
Fintech
A fintech company was managing PCI DSS compliance through a combination of manual quarterly evidence collection, a spreadsheet risk register, and an annual assessment that regularly required emergency remediation in the weeks before the QSA arrived. We implemented a compliance automation platform connected to their infrastructure, established continuous monitoring of their cardholder data environment controls, and restructured their evidence collection to be continuous rather than periodic. Their subsequent annual assessment was the first in their history that did not require emergency remediation. The QSA noted the quality of their evidence documentation specifically.
E-commerce
A growing e-commerce business was receiving an increasing volume of customer security questionnaires as it moved upmarket — each requiring a member of the engineering team to spend two to three days compiling answers from wherever the relevant information lived. We implemented a security questionnaire automation layer — building a maintained library of answers mapped to their SOC 2 controls and GDPR compliance programme — that reduced the average questionnaire response time from days to hours and allowed non-technical team members to handle the initial response. The engineering team's involvement in questionnaire responses dropped significantly.
Professional Services
A professional services firm was required by a new enterprise client to demonstrate ISO 27001 compliance within six months as a condition of contract renewal. Their existing information security posture was reasonable but undocumented — controls were in place but not formalised, risks were managed informally, and the evidence required for certification did not exist in a form an auditor could review. We conducted a gap assessment, designed and implemented the ISMS, formalised the existing controls, implemented automated monitoring, and supported the certification audit. Certification was achieved within the required timeframe. The contract renewed.
The Immediate and Lasting Value
Always audit-ready rather than periodically prepared
When evidence is collected continuously and controls are monitored in real time, audit preparation stops being a project and becomes a review. The difference in cost, stress, and reliability between those two things is significant.
Compliance that scales with your organisation
A manual compliance programme that works for a twenty-person team does not work for a two-hundred-person team with three times the systems and twice the vendor relationships. Automation scales. The effort required to maintain compliance does not have to grow proportionally with the organisation it covers.
Engineering time returned to engineering work
The hours your engineers spend gathering compliance evidence, populating control spreadsheets, and answering security questionnaires are hours not spent on the product. Automation does not eliminate the need for engineering involvement in compliance — it eliminates the parts that do not require engineering judgment.
Multi-framework compliance without proportional duplication of effort
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR overlap substantially in the controls they require. A unified programme that maps evidence and controls across frameworks means that meeting a new obligation draws on a foundation already in place rather than starting from nothing.
A security posture you can demonstrate, not just assert
The difference between saying your organisation takes security seriously and being able to show a continuously monitored control environment, a current evidence library, and a clean audit history is the difference between a claim and a credential. Enterprise prospects, investors, and regulators notice the difference.
Control drift detected before it becomes a compliance failure
Configurations change. People leave. Systems are added. In a manual compliance programme, these changes create gaps that surface at audit time. In an automated programme, they surface the day they happen — as alerts, as failed control checks, as items requiring remediation before they become findings.
What Changes When Compliance Runs as a System, Not a Sprint
These are the kinds of outcomes our clients experience — not as projections, but as the natural result of building compliance programmes that are automated, continuously monitored, and genuinely maintained rather than periodically reconstructed.
70–85%
Reduction in manual effort for audit preparation when evidence collection is automated and continuous
6–9 months
Typical time from engagement start to SOC 2 Type II certification for organisations with a reasonable existing security posture
Near zero
Emergency remediation findings in the weeks before an audit when controls are monitored continuously throughout the year
3–5 days
Average reduction in security questionnaire response time when a maintained answer library is in place versus manual reconstruction
Compliance as Genuine Security, Not Performance of It.
Compliance work that is done to satisfy an auditor rather than to improve security posture is a significant expenditure that produces a certificate rather than protection. We build compliance programmes designed to do both — and we are direct when the two come apart.
We distinguish between compliance and security, and we say so
A SOC 2 report confirms that defined criteria were met at a point in time. It does not confirm that your application is secure, that your data is protected against novel attack vectors, or that the controls audited are the ones that matter most for your specific threat landscape. We are clear about this distinction — and we tell you when a compliance requirement would be satisfied by something that does not actually improve your security posture, so you can make an informed decision about how to approach it.
We do not help organisations misrepresent their compliance status
Security questionnaire answers that overstate control effectiveness, compliance documentation that describes processes that do not actually run, or audit evidence that has been prepared rather than collected — these are practices we will not support, regardless of the commercial pressure behind them. The organisations that ask us to help with them are the ones we decline to work with.
Privacy compliance is about protecting people, not satisfying regulators
GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and their equivalents exist because personal and health data, when mishandled, causes real harm to real people. We build privacy compliance programmes with that purpose in mind — designing data minimisation, purpose limitation, and subject rights processes that genuinely protect individuals, not just processes that pass an audit.
We are honest about what frameworks do and do not require
Compliance frameworks are frequently misrepresented — by vendors selling solutions, by advisors expanding scope, and by organisations whose interests are served by a more demanding interpretation of the requirements. We tell you what a framework actually requires, what is optional, and where the interpretation being proposed to you by another party is more ambitious than the standard demands.
The Values Behind Every Compliance Programme We Build
We build programmes that organisations can maintain, not ones that require us to maintain them
A compliance programme that depends on ongoing external involvement to stay current has not served the organisation it was built for — it has created a dependency. We design with your team's capacity and capability in mind, document everything clearly, and transfer the knowledge required to manage the programme independently. Ongoing support is available because it is useful, not because the programme cannot function without it.
Honest about what your obligations actually are
The compliance industry has a significant incentive to expand the scope of what is required. We tell you what the frameworks you are subject to actually demand — clearly, specifically, and without the interpretation bias that comes from selling solutions to requirements that may not apply to you. If a control is best practice but not required, we say so. If a framework does not apply to your situation, we say that too.
Automation serves the programme — not the other way around
Compliance automation platforms are tools. The value they produce depends on how the programme around them is designed — the controls, the policies, the ownership, the processes. We spend as much time on the programme design as on the platform implementation, because a well-implemented platform running a poorly designed programme produces a lot of automated evidence of controls that were never the right ones.
We engage with the substance of security, not just the surface of compliance
The organisations that benefit most from working with us are not the ones looking for the path of least resistance to a certificate. They are the ones that want their compliance programme to reflect a genuine security posture — one they can defend to an auditor, to a customer, to a regulator, and to themselves. That is the kind of work we are built for.
Common Questions
Compliance That Runs All Year Is Less Expensive Than the One That Runs for Six Weeks Before the Audit.
Tell us which frameworks apply to your organisation, what your current approach looks like, and what is driving the timing. We will be straightforward about what a proportionate compliance programme looks like for your situation — and what a sensible first step involves.
No pitch decks. No obligations. Just an honest conversation about your compliance obligations and the most efficient way to meet them.