Compliance · The comparison
A compliance answer has to survive a challenge. This is how regulated teams assemble the audit file today, what each way does well, and where each one fails when the auditor asks for the source.
Today
Alternative
Does well
Fails the audit
Senior staff search the shared drive and email; spreadsheets reconcile; consultants assemble the audit file.
Does wellTrusted, no procurement, everyone knows how.
Fails the auditWeeks of preparation, answers that depend on who is in the building, and the same question with three answers.
Policies pasted or uploaded into a consumer chat tool.
Does wellFast, fluent, cheap.
Fails the auditNo permission model, citations that do not survive a challenge, no audit trail. Rolled out organisation-wide, it leaks.
One search box across the document systems, including the assistant built into the office suite.
Does wellFinds the document across systems.
Fails the auditFinding is not defending. Answers are not bound to page-level evidence, and no workflow ends in a deliverable.
Controls, owners and due dates in a dedicated system.
Does wellDeep in its lane: the control register is tidy.
Fails the auditA separate truth store from the document archive and from finance. The evidence behind a green tick lives somewhere else, and the audit file is still reconciled by hand.
A retrieval chatbot over the document store.
Does wellFits the stack.
Fails the auditPermissions, citations and audit are each a project. The demo is easy; the audit-grade version never ships.
The Compliance Desk over the same documents, with the same permissions.
Does wellEvery answer carries its source and says so when a citation cannot be verified. Permissions are enforced in every read. A workflow declares its sources, stops for approval, and ends in a document an auditor can open.
Fails the auditNot yet, on two counts an auditor will ask about: region-pinned storage is on the roadmap and not yet shipped, and SOC 2 Type II is in progress and is not claimed until it is held. Ask both before you sign; we answer in writing.
What an auditor can check
Each of these is a property of the product as shipped, with a place in the code that proves it. Ask any vendor for the same.
The document, the page and the passage, or the dataset and the row. An auditor is told exactly where to look.
The checker flags it on the face of the answer. Nothing is scored into a green.
A member sees only what they are allowed to see, in every answer and every run. The audit log shows who asked what.
Every run persists a document that names the sources it read, held for approval before export. Framework controls and their evidence sit in Compliance Studio with an owner and a status each.
SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS and NIS2 ship as templates, with a sector-regulator template for licensed operators. Any control list imports from a spreadsheet.
GDPR and CCPA compliant, ISO 27001 aligned, SOC 2 Type II in progress. Encrypted at rest and in transit. Your data never trains a model.
Next step
Bring the last audit's request list. We will import the controls, run the Compliance Desk over your documents and show you the evidence on file and each run's sources.
Security
GDPR and CCPA compliant, ISO 27001 aligned, SOC 2 Type II in progress. Encrypted at rest and in transit. Your data never trains a model.
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