FOR ORGANISATIONS ALREADY ON A COMPLIANCE PLATFORM
The platform is running. The audit is not getting closer.
Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Thoropass or another. They collect evidence and monitor controls continuously, and they do that well. What none of them does is decide your scope, write a Statement of Applicability an auditor will accept, run your clause 9.2 internal audit, or sit in the room at Stage 2. Where those are missing, the platform shows green and the audit still fails.
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who reads your configuration, not a summary of it
Fixed fee
agreed once the scope is actually known
A written route to Stage 1
with an owner and a date against every gap
Built for teams who bought the platform and stalled
Find out what is actually missing
The platform reports on the controls it was configured to watch. If the scope was wrong when it was set up, everything downstream is green and wrong with it.
The document the platform will not write
Clause 6.1.3 d) requires a Statement of Applicability recording which controls you decided were necessary and why. That is a judgement about your risk, and no software can make it for you.
An audit that is independent
Clause 9.2 requires auditors selected to ensure objectivity. If the people who configured the platform also audit it, the requirement is not met, and a certification body checks.
Someone in the room at Stage 2
The auditor will ask why a control is in scope and why another is out. Those answers live in the decisions, not in the dashboard.
What this is for
The platform was bought months ago and the certification date has not moved.
Controls show as passing but nobody can explain what is in scope.
Policies came from the template library and have never been read by the people who own them.
An auditor has asked a question the platform cannot answer.
What happens
PHASE 01
Scope review
What the management system actually covers, written down, and whether the platform configuration matches it.
PHASE 02
Configuration audit
Which controls are monitored, which are manual, and which are switched on but meaningless.
PHASE 03
Evidence gap register
Every gap with an owner and a date, mapped to the clause or control it fails.
PHASE 04
Route to audit
What has to happen before Stage 1, in what order, and what it will cost.
What you get
A written scope statement
A platform configuration review
A gap register with owners and dates
A dated route to Stage 1
Fixed price, confirmed at the free diagnostic.
Frequently asked
Find out what is actually missing
A free diagnostic call with the practitioner who would do the work. Scope, configuration and evidence reviewed before anything is priced.
45 minutes, video, with the practitioner who would do the work. No sales pitch.