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SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI readiness without a consultant.
Compliance as a Service for SMBs is soc 2 compliance software for teams that want the reasoning shown, not hidden. Plans start at $149 a month with a 14-day free trial.
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 consultants charge somewhere between twenty and sixty thousand dollars to tell a twelve-person company which controls it is missing. Most of that work is a checklist, an evidence folder and a set of policies. Compliance Shield does the checklist honestly — including the part where it refuses to call you ready when the evidence is not there.
The common failure of compliance dashboards is that ticking a box moves the number. A team marks forty controls as implemented, watches the gauge hit 92%, and walks into an audit that finds half of them undocumented.
Here a control claimed without attached evidence is heavily discounted. The score you see reflects what you could actually defend in a readiness assessment, which means it starts lower and is worth more. Controls carry different weights too — access revocation on termination is not equivalent to having a documented onboarding checklist, and scoring them the same produces a number that misleads.
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA and PCI DSS overlap substantially. Access control, encryption at rest, incident response and vendor management appear in all four with different wording and different identifiers.
Controls are maintained once and mapped across frameworks, so evidence uploaded for a SOC 2 access review also satisfies the corresponding HIPAA and PCI requirements. Adding a second framework after your first audit is typically a small amount of incremental work rather than starting again.
The evidence vault holds artefacts against the controls they support, with collection dates and expiry. An access review from fourteen months ago is not evidence of a current control, and the readiness score reflects that automatically rather than waiting for someone to notice.
Policies are generated as editable drafts mapped to the controls they satisfy, so you are correcting a document rather than starting from a blank page. Vendor reviews track your subprocessors with their own risk ratings and review dates — the area auditors probe hardest at small companies, because it is where most of them have nothing written down at all.
The score answers a narrow question: if an assessor asked for evidence of every control today, what proportion could you produce? Nothing in the calculation is hidden, and each control shows its own contribution.
The practical consequence is that the first score most teams see is lower than they expected. That is the point. A number that flatters you before an audit is worse than no number, because it removes the urgency that would have closed the gaps.
Usually triggered by an enterprise deal stalling at security review. The useful output is a ranked gap list and generated policy drafts, not a dashboard.
HIPAA safeguards with business associate agreement tracking, and the evidence trail that makes a breach assessment survivable.
PCI DSS scoping is where most small merchants go wrong — segmenting the cardholder data environment properly shrinks the assessment dramatically.
Compliance decays. Expiring evidence and scheduled vendor reviews keep the programme alive in month seven, when nobody is thinking about the auditor.
Pick your frameworks and get a live control checklist, generated policies, evidence tracking with expiry reminders and an auditor-ready readiness report — so a 20-person company can pass the same security review as a 2,000-person one.
Compliance as a Service for SMBs starts at $149 a month with a 14-day free trial. Vanta is about $833 per month per company.
SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA Security Rule and PCI DSS 4.0, each with a full control library, policy templates and evidence requirements. Essentials covers one framework, Professional three, Audit Ready all of them.
Each control carries a weight, and your score is the weighted percentage complete. A control marked done without an evidence artefact scores lower than one with current evidence, and expired evidence scores lower still — because that is how an auditor will treat it.
No. It gets you ready for one and keeps you ready. The audit itself is a separate engagement, typically $15,000–$50,000, and the readiness report is what you hand the auditor on day one.
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