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Get audit-ready without hiring an audit team.

Your first SOC 2 audit shouldn't eat a quarter of engineering's roadmap. Talarity gives lean teams the playbook, the automation, and the evidence collection to ship audit-ready in weeks, not quarters.

What you're up against

Sound familiar?

Your first SOC 2 audit is blocking enterprise deals — and you don't have a dedicated compliance team.

Engineering treats compliance as overhead and pushes back on every evidence request.

You're using spreadsheets that worked at 5 employees but break at 25.

You can't tell what's actually required vs. what your auditor's checklist insists on.

The reality

First SOC 2 with a five-person team? We've done it.

A first SOC 2 audit is the deal that unblocks the next ten deals — and it lands on the desk of a team that doesn't yet have a compliance function. The work falls to whoever is closest: a founding engineer, an early CS lead, the COO if you have one. They're learning the framework in real time while running the rest of the company, and engineering pushes back on every screenshot request because the roadmap doesn't have room for compliance overhead.

Spreadsheets that worked at five employees fall apart at twenty-five. The auditor's checklist demands evidence that doesn't yet have a home in your stack. The week before the audit, someone is in the basement of Notion trying to remember which Slack thread had the password-policy decision. Half of what gets demanded isn't actually required by the framework — it's just on the auditor's standard checklist.

Talarity gives lean teams the playbook, the automation, and a clear line between what's required and what's optional. Evidence collects itself from the systems engineering already uses. Audit-prep stops being a sprint that eats the roadmap — and the cert is something you can ship by month-end, not next quarter.

Outcomes

What you'll be able to say.

What changes when Talarity is the system of record for the program — not the spreadsheets surrounding it.

Ship the SOC 2 attestation that unblocks the next ten enterprise deals.

Stop treating compliance as a quarterly fire drill.

Hand the auditor evidence directly from your stack — no screenshot scavenger hunts.

Build the program once instead of rebuilding it before every cert.

Frameworks that fit

Frameworks for Startup.

SOC 2 AICPA
255 Talarity controls mapped
Your first big framework — Trust Services Criteria scoped from a curated playbook so you can hit a Type I in weeks and a Type II in months.
ISO 27001 ISO
93 Talarity controls mapped
When EU customers ask for ISO instead of SOC 2, you can run both from the same evidence rather than starting a new program.
CIS Controls Center for Internet Security
153 Talarity controls mapped
Implementation Group 1 is the practical 'doing the basics' baseline auditors and insurers respect — grow into IG2/IG3 as you scale.
HIPAA US Health & Human Services
107 Talarity controls mapped
If a healthcare customer signs you'll need a BAA and a HIPAA program — Talarity sets the minimum viable Security Rule posture without consultants.
PCI DSS PCI Security Standards Council
262 Talarity controls mapped
Most startups land in SAQ A or SAQ D; we'll guide you to the right one and keep your CDE bounded before scope creeps.
GDPR European Union
109 Talarity controls mapped
RoPA, cookie posture, and DPA flow-down handled inside the platform — no separate privacy tool until you actually need one.
NIST CSF NIST
185 Talarity controls mapped
When enterprise prospects ask for a security framework, NIST CSF answers the question without committing you to ISO.
NIST 800-30 NIST
122 Talarity controls mapped
The methodology behind your first risk register — defensible without requiring a dedicated risk analyst.
SOX US Securities & Exchange
105 Talarity controls mapped
Not your problem yet, but if you're heading to IPO the framework is in the catalog and the controls line up with your SOC 2 work.
SEC Cyber US Securities & Exchange Commission
12 Talarity controls mapped
Likewise not yet binding — but board-level cyber hygiene is increasingly something Series B+ investors ask about.
FedRAMP GSA / NIST 800-53
320 Talarity controls mapped
If federal becomes a target, you'll know the gap between current posture and what an authorization actually requires.
CMMC 2.0 US Department of Defense
110 Talarity controls mapped
If you're chasing DoD subcontracts, NIST 800-171 alignment lives in the platform from day one.
FFIEC IT FFIEC
155 Talarity controls mapped
Available if a fintech customer asks; not something you need to stand up proactively.
CSA AI CM Cloud Security Alliance
243 Talarity controls mapped
Useful when responding to enterprise AI security questionnaires — answer once, reuse.
NIST AI RMF NIST
105 Talarity controls mapped
If you're shipping AI features, govern them with a recognized framework now rather than a one-off policy later.
Pricing

Flexible licensing for any size, industry, or stage.

Modules are licensed à la carte and scale with your team, your entities, and the frameworks you run. Whether you're standing up your first program or running a multi-entity rollup, the model fits — no forced minimums, no rigid bundles.

Ready to see Talarity for Startup?

A 30-minute walkthrough tailored to your context — your stack, your frameworks, your real questions.