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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.
| traztech | Tool alone | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A person who runs the whole program plus the tooling | Software, integrations, and a control dashboard |
| Typical cost | Roughly from $3K per month, 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 instead76 controls, a team of 15, and 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 took $11,000 off one quote, and across four firms bidding identical scope the highest number was 2.1 times the lowest.
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 for roughly from $3K per month, 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 | $11,000 off a five-figure quote on one engagement, for a documented readiness position | Nothing. The audit firm prices your readiness, not your tooling |
Pricing in the right column is what compliance automation platforms are publicly reported to charge; none of them publish a number, so treat it as a range rather than a quote. The $11,000 came off the audit firm's own number once the readiness position was documented (the engagement). Where a paid platform is the better buy, and the fuller comparison, 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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Track record
We are deliberately not a large firm, and we would rather show you the work than a wall of logos. Here is what is behind the advice.
Five published CVEs. CVE-2024-45163 (CVSS 9.1) is a flaw in the Mirai botnet itself, which gave defenders a way to shut down attacker infrastructure. CVE-2026-42626 takes HP ENVY 5000 printers offline from any unauthenticated device on the same network.
The printer is the one that matters on a compliance page: an asset nobody counts as a computer, on a flat network, downed by a device that never had to log in. Auditors ask how controls fail. We have found out first-hand.
At Humera, a venture-backed US security company, Jacob built the compliance programme in-house from nothing: no report, no policies, no documented controls. It ended in a Type II attestation across 76 controls with zero exceptions, on a team of 15.
The platform held 99.9% uptime throughout, which is the part most readiness projects get wrong: controls are easy to design and hard to retrofit onto a system people already depend on.
For a Waterloo data centre operator we ran SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2022 together rather than one after the other, across a production campus, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack. Scoped so further Ontario and Quebec sites enter as they reach production. Findings delivered and remediated.
For an Ontario medtech company putting an AI clinical assistant in front of practitioners, we ran the gap analysis and built the evidence programme behind their SOC 2.