A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.
All compliance →Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.
All security →To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.
All industries →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →We are your point of contact with the auditor or certification body, from choosing the firm to the day the report or certificate is issued. Your team answers fewer emails, and every request is met once, in scope.
A shortlist of licensed CPA firms for SOC 2, or accredited certification bodies for ISO 27001 and ISO 42001, that fit your scope and stage. We make the introductions and help you compare the quotes.
Fieldwork dates, the observation period for a SOC 2 Type II, and interview slots, planned around your team rather than the other way round.
We take the auditor's request list, match each item to evidence already in your workspace, chase the owners for anything missing, and answer the follow-up questions.
Each person the auditor will speak to is briefed on what they will be asked and which evidence backs their answer.
When the auditor raises an exception or a finding, we work through it with them: context, additional evidence, or a fix and proof that it is fixed, until the report or certificate is issued.
When a request goes beyond the agreed scope, we say so and point to the scope. When it is in scope, we make sure it is answered once, with evidence that satisfies the control efficiently.
Phase 2 of every SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001 and CyberSecure Canada programme we run includes auditor management. The auditor works from the same workspace the evidence already lives in.
Readiness done in house or elsewhere? We step in for the audit itself: initial, Type II period or surveillance. Facing an audit that has already gone wrong? See audit recovery.
Once the report or certificate is issued, continuous compliance keeps the evidence current for next year's audit, and a trust center puts the result in front of buyers. Heading into an ISO audit? An independent internal audit comes first, offered where we have not operated your controls.
Before you sign an engagement letter, read how we vet and choose an auditor and why audit quotes for the same scope differ.
No. A licensed CPA firm issues the SOC 2 report, and an accredited certification body issues an ISO certificate. We are your point of contact with them: we prepare your team, handle the requests and work through findings with them.
No, and we would not try. The opinion belongs to the auditor alone. Our job is to make sure the auditor gets accurate evidence quickly, that your controls are understood in context, and that requests stay within the agreed scope.
Yes. Auditor management is part of Phase 2 of every compliance programme we run. It is also sold on its own, per audit, if your readiness was done in house or by another firm.
SOC 2 Type I and Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 certification and surveillance audits, and CyberSecure Canada certification audits. Initial audits and the ones that follow each year.
Standalone auditor management is priced per audit, from $2,500 CAD, scoped to the framework and the size of the audit. Within Phase 2 it is already included.
Tell us which audit is coming and where you are in it. We will tell you what we would take on and what it costs.
Your auditor gets read-only access to the same workspace, so fieldwork runs against the evidence register rather than a shared drive. That is the part teams normally pay a subscription for.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.
Free PDFs, no card
SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 gaps, incident response and vendor security, as PDFs you can print or forward. Free, no card.
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Track record
We would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation with zero exceptions.
The platform stayed in production throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.
For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.
For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.