SOC 2 readiness & evidence management
Most founders know they need SOC 2 to close enterprise deals. Almost nobody knows which requirements apply to them, which policies they need, or what an auditor will actually ask to see. SOC2Starter answers all three in about ten minutes.
No card required to start. Runs in your browser and on your phone — same account, same data. Built for teams of 5–50.
The problem
That is what most compliance tooling feels like to a five-person engineering team. SOC2Starter is built around the opposite idea: we have looked at your company, and here are the four things you should do this week.
Our sweet spot. Built for teams who need SOC 2 without the overhead.
Feature-focused, jargon-free compliance for product-led growth.
No compliance team needed. Answer 19 questions and get a plan.
How it works
Security, access control, infrastructure, people, vendors. Plain English, no jargon, five short sections. Answering honestly is the point — a "no" is what becomes your action plan.
Each one carries a status derived from your own answers, what proves it, who should own it, and the controls behind it. Plus a readiness estimate you can watch move.
Ten standard SOC 2 policy templates, written around your actual stack and your actual answers. Edit them, send them for approval, and keep every version.
Upload documents from your phone, or connect GitHub, Google Workspace, AWS, Okta and more. Each sync files a dated, readable snapshot against the requirement it proves.
What you get
A requirement list built from your answers, not a generic checklist. Every item explains itself in plain English.
A ranked action plan: the handful of things that move your readiness most right now, each with an owner and an effort estimate. One tap turns them into tasks.
A private evidence library. Every download is logged. Twelve read-only connectors collect access reviews and MFA checks for you.
Quarterly access reviews, annual policy reviews, expiring evidence. Recurring tasks reschedule themselves, and reminders chase whoever owns them.
Integrations
Connect the tools you already use and the quarterly screenshot chore becomes a button. Every connector is read-only by construction — none can be given a scope that changes anything in your account.
| Category | Connectors | What it collects |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Okta | Every account, MFA status, admins, offboarded users |
| Code | GitHub, GitLab | Members, owners, branch protection, required reviews |
| Infrastructure | AWS, Cloudflare, Vercel, Supabase | Root MFA, IAM users, who can deploy, project inventory |
| Work | Slack, Linear, Jira | Workspace members, guests, installed apps |
Security
So here is exactly how the product is built.
Every table enforces tenant isolation with row-level security keyed on company membership — not in application code, where a bug becomes a breach.
Files live in a private bucket. Downloads use short-lived signed links, and every access is recorded in an append-only log.
Integration tokens are stored where the application's own database role has no read access at all. They are only ever sent back to the provider they came from.
Guides
The complete list — ten policies and eighteen operational artefacts, with what satisfies each one.
Audit fees, tooling, pen tests, and the 100–300 internal hours nobody budgets for.
Two to four months for a Type 1, six to nine for a first Type 2 — and why the window cannot be shortened.
Fourteen days, no card required. The full assessment, all 29 requirements and your readiness estimate — before the first coffee goes cold.