Find Compliance Gaps Before
Auditors Do
Audits shouldn't be the first time you discover what's missing. Our compliance readiness assessments systematically evaluate your policies, controls, and technical infrastructure against the frameworks that matter to your business — and hand you a prioritised remediation plan with realistic timelines.
Assessment Deliverables
Six artefacts that give your CISO, legal team, and engineering leads a clear path from current state to audit-ready.
Control Gap Analysis
Framework-by-framework mapping of required controls vs. your current state — every gap catalogued with severity, business impact, and remediation complexity.
Policy & Documentation Review
Assessment of existing policies, procedures, and evidence against framework requirements — with templates and red-line edits for gaps we find.
Technical Controls Audit
Review of infrastructure security, access management, encryption, logging, and monitoring against the technical control requirements of your target framework.
Remediation Roadmap
Prioritised action plan with effort estimates, owner assignments, and a phased timeline that gets you audit-ready without disrupting delivery.
Compliance Readiness Score
A quantified readiness score across control domains — so leadership can see at a glance where you stand and track progress sprint over sprint.
Auditor Preparation Guide
A practical guide covering what auditors will ask, what evidence to prepare, and common pitfalls that trip up first-time audit candidates.
Our Assessment Process
Scope & Framework Selection
Define which frameworks apply, which systems are in scope, and which trust service criteria or control families to prioritise.
Days 1–2Policy & Process Review
Review existing documentation — information security policies, HR procedures, vendor management, incident response — against framework requirements.
Days 3–6Technical Controls Assessment
Evaluate infrastructure, application security, access management, encryption, and monitoring against technical control requirements.
Days 7–10Gap Analysis & Scoring
Map all findings into a structured gap analysis with severity ratings, produce the compliance readiness score, and prioritise remediation.
Days 11–14Roadmap Delivery & Coaching
Present findings to leadership, deliver the remediation roadmap, provide auditor prep guide, and offer 2 weeks of coaching during remediation kickoff.
Days 15–17Know Where You Stand Before the Auditor Arrives
Request a free compliance readiness call — we'll identify your top 5 gaps in 30 minutes.
Schedule Free ConsultationWho Needs a Readiness Assessment
If you're pursuing certification, onboarding enterprise clients, or entering regulated markets, this engagement removes the guesswork.
FinTechs Pursuing SOC 2
Enterprise prospects are asking for your SOC 2 report. You need to know what's missing and how long remediation will take before committing to an audit timeline.
SOC 2 Type IIPayment Platforms Needing PCI-DSS
You're handling cardholder data and need to achieve or maintain PCI-DSS compliance — but aren't sure if your current controls would survive a QSA assessment.
PCI-DSSHealthTech Under HIPAA
You're processing PHI and need to demonstrate HIPAA compliance to partners and customers — with documented policies, technical safeguards, and BAAs in place.
HIPAACompanies Expanding into EU Markets
GDPR compliance is a prerequisite for EU market entry. You need a gap assessment covering data processing, consent management, and cross-border transfer mechanisms.
GDPRWhy Teams Choose Our Assessments
We've prepared 50+ companies for their first audit — with a 96% first-attempt pass rate.
Assess Your Compliance Readiness
Tell us which frameworks matter and we'll scope an assessment with timeline and fixed pricing within 48 hours.
SOC 2 Type II Achieved in 14 Weeks After Readiness Assessment
Compliance Readiness for a Payment Processing Startup
A Series B payment processor needed SOC 2 Type II to close enterprise deals. We ran a 17-day readiness assessment, identified 34 control gaps, and delivered a remediation roadmap that got them audit-ready in 10 weeks — passing on their first attempt.
Enterprise deals blocked by missing SOC 2 report
The startup had strong engineering practices but no formalised security policies, incomplete access reviews, and no evidence collection process. Three enterprise prospects had paused procurement pending SOC 2 certification.
Our Approach: We assessed 87 SOC 2 controls across all five trust service criteria, identified 34 gaps, prioritised remediation by audit impact, provided policy templates for 12 missing documents, and coached their engineering team through technical remediation — achieving audit readiness in 10 weeks.
Frequently Asked Questions
A SOC 2 audit is performed by a licensed CPA firm and produces a formal attestation report. Our readiness assessment is a pre-audit exercise that identifies gaps and prepares your organisation so the formal audit goes smoothly — and passes on the first attempt.
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