A fixed-price gap analysis, remediation through to your audit, and upkeep after it. All in a workspace you keep.
All compliance →Led by a published security researcher with five CVEs. One standard report, letters for your buyers, and retests of your fixes.
All security →To the people you sell to, raise from or answer to.
All industries →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →Vanta and Drata are genuinely good products. We deploy them at most engagements. But the software gives you a dashboard of controls, not a person who runs the program, remediates the red items, writes the policies, and sits in the audit. Buying the tool alone leaves that work to you. Here is the honest comparison.
We would rather tell you the truth than win a bad-fit client. Here is when the alternative is genuinely the better choice.
If that is you, buy Vanta or Drata directly and run it yourself. We will even help you pick. Most teams buy the tool, then realize the dashboard does not do the work, which is when they call us.
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The SOC 2 readiness checklist, the ISO 27001 gap checklist and the vendor security questionnaire, as PDFs you can print or hand to your team. Free, no card.
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| traztech | Tool alone | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A person who runs the whole program plus the tooling | Software, integrations, and a control dashboard |
| Typical cost | SOC 2 readiness from $3,000 for the gap analysis, tooling included or coordinated | Tool subscription, typically several thousand a year, plus your time |
| Who remediates findings | We do, hands-on | You do, the dashboard only shows you what is red |
| Who writes the policies | We write and tailor them to your environment | Templates you adapt and own yourself |
| Who answers the auditor | We sit in the audit and answer the controls | You, the tool collects evidence but does not speak |
| Offensive testing | Run with our offensive-security partner, managed end to end | Not included, you source it separately |
Every number below comes from an engagement record and links to the full case study.
They had a five-figure annual compliance automation subscription quoted and budgeted. They ran the entire programme in our workspace instead, kept the evidence at the end, and paid nothing for the licence. The platform was a real option, and it was not the one that produced the report.
What they did insteadA first SOC 2 Type II with zero exceptions. What the auditor sampled was the evidence behind the controls and the person who could explain them, which is the part no integration collects for you.
Read the Type II case studyAutomation shortens evidence collection, which is genuinely useful. It does not change what the audit firm quotes. A documented readiness position brought one quote down, and four firms bidding identical scope came back far apart.
Why the quotes differedMore at all case studies.
A compliance dashboard tells you which controls are failing. It does not configure your cloud, write your policies, or fix your access reviews. We do that work.
When the auditor asks a control question, the tool cannot answer. We can, because we built the program and we sit in the room.
We are vendor-neutral on tooling. We deploy Vanta, Drata, or others based on fit, and we run them. Our incentive is your passed audit, not a software renewal.
A published security researcher behind the program means the controls reflect real threat models, not just boxes the tool wants checked.
Usually yes, and we deploy it for you. The tool is the automation and evidence-collection layer, and it is good at that. traztech is the person who configures it, runs the program on top of it, remediates what it flags, and gets you through the audit. Tool plus operator is the combination that passes.
Yes. If you already have Vanta or Drata, we take it over, clean up the configuration, close the open controls, and run it from there. You do not have to start over or switch tools.
Because SOC 2 is an audit of how your company actually operates, not a checklist a dashboard completes. Someone has to write policies, fix misconfigurations, run access reviews, gather evidence the tool cannot auto-collect, and answer the auditor. The tool supports that work. It does not do it.
The tool subscription is cheaper on paper. But the tool alone leaves the actual program work to your team, which is rarely free. traztech bundles the operator and the tooling, starting from $3,000 for the gap analysis, and you get a passed audit instead of a dashboard.
We are transparent about this. We deploy whatever fits and disclose any reseller economics openly. We are not tied to one vendor, so the recommendation is based on your environment, not our margin.
The tool does not fill those out. We do. Answering customer security questionnaires and managing enterprise security reviews is part of running the program, and it is one of the things teams most underestimate when they buy the tool alone.
traztech Workspace covers the same self-assessment ground for nothing: every control in plain English, an evidence register, policy templates, a risk register, and vendor questionnaires. It does not do continuous monitoring or auto-collection, and we say so plainly. If all you need right now is to understand the scope, you do not need a subscription for that.
No credit card, no trial clock, no locked features. We make money when someone wants help closing the gaps, not from the Workspace.
| traztech Workspace | Other GRC platforms | |
|---|---|---|
| Licence cost | $0. Free forever, no card, no paid tier | $7,500 to $50,000 a year, on an annual contract |
| Control library, evidence register, policy templates, risk register, vendor questionnaires, readiness scoring | Included | Included |
| What it costs inside an engagement with us | $0. You need a workspace either way | Unchanged. The subscription sits on top of the fee |
| What it does to your audit quote | A documented readiness position the audit firm can scope and price against | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Platform pricing is a publicly reported range, since none of them publish a number. The fuller comparison, including when a paid platform is the better buy, is on the Workspace page.
Get an operator who deploys the automation, closes the red controls, and gets you through the audit, instead of a dashboard you have to staff yourself.
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