An enterprise prospect asks for your SOC 2 report and a sales cycle suddenly depends on controls nobody has written down. Readiness work is what turns that from a year-long problem into a quarter.
To be clear about the boundary: we are not your auditor and cannot be. A CPA firm issues the report. Our job is to get you to the point where that firm has nothing to write up.
Which trust services criteria apply, Type I or Type II, and which systems are genuinely in scope — decided early, because scope creep here is expensive.
A honest read of where you are against the criteria, ranked by how long each gap takes to close rather than by how bad it sounds.
The policies you actually need, written to match how your team really works — because an auditor tests whether the policy is followed, not whether it exists.
Access management, logging, encryption, change control, and vulnerability handling implemented in the systems rather than described in a document.
Evidence collected continuously from the systems themselves, so the observation window doesn't become a quarterly screenshot exercise for someone.
Working alongside the audit firm you choose, answering their requests so your engineers aren't pulled into it for weeks.
Type II reports test controls over a period, which is why starting the week the auditor arrives cannot work. The observation window has already begun or it hasn't.
Buyers often ask for a code-level review alongside the report — see technical due diligence. Most of the technical controls land in your cloud setup.
Tell us who's asking and by when. We'll assess the gap, tell you honestly whether the date is achievable, and what the fastest defensible path looks like.