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.
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.
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.
The capabilities, in your context.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
Compliance
Ship your first SOC 2 in weeks with framework playbooks, automated evidence collectors for the cloud you already run, and an audit package at the end.
Explore ComplianceGovernance
Bootstrap your control library from a curated baseline (CIS Implementation Group 1, SOC 2 CC) and assign owners as the team grows — no analyst-paralysis before you write your first policy.
Explore GovernanceRisk
Start with a lightweight, qualitative risk register an auditor will accept now, included from GRC Professional. When a board member or insurer starts asking for dollars, quantitative FAIR analysis is there when you need it.
Explore RiskAdd-on modules
Attach to GRC Professional or Enterprise Governance — same flat price on either.
Third-Party Risk Management
When enterprise prospects start demanding vendor risk reviews, add third-party risk to whatever package you are on — auto-tier vendors, send questionnaires, and track responses in the same workspace rather than a separate TPRM tool.
AI Insights
Available as an add-on when you want it: AI authoring drafts policies, summarizes evidence, and routes intake so a two-person GRC team operates like five.
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.
Run compliance as a steady-state program — always ready, never a quarterly scramble.
Hand the auditor evidence directly from your stack — no screenshot scavenger hunts.
Build the program once instead of rebuilding it before every cert.
Frameworks for Startup.
Compliance Starter
Assess and report across compliance, risk, and governance.
Packages move up as your program does. Seats, storage, vendors, frameworks, and entities scale with add-ons.
Further reading for Startup
Practitioner walkthroughs from the Talarity library.
- Compliance·9 min readSave a security package once, send it on demandA prospect's security team asks for your SOC 2, your pen test, and your current security policies — again. Package Templates save that set as a reusable definition of pinned items plus rules like 'every current SOC 2 report', resolve it fresh each time you send, and hand it over as a redacted, watermarked, time-limited copy with a record of who received what.
- Compliance·6 min readSystem Configuration — turn a completed assessment into enforceable, drift-tracked baselinesEvery safeguard you scored in an assessment becomes an enforceable expected value. Talarity re-checks the observed state, flags drift, opens remediation automatically, and lets you attach evidence per control — so your controls stay implemented, not just documented once.
- Governance·6 min readExport and verify your audit trail for SOC 2Pull your full audit trail as a SOC 2 evidence file in any format, then prove it wasn't altered with a one-click tamper-evidence check — backed by a per-row hash chain and a Merkle root your auditor can re-verify offline.
- Governance·6 min readCatch toxic access combinations with Segregation of DutiesDefine the pairs of duties no single person should hold — approve and disburse, accept a risk and own its control — and Talarity flags every user who holds both, with ten framework-mapped starter rules out of the box.
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Start a 7-day readiness trial and see it on your own frameworks — then buy online in-app when you're ready.