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 →Real engagements, with the numbers from the engagement record rather than rounded-up marketing figures. Some clients are unnamed while naming permission is outstanding, which is why they are described by shape.
The compliance work itself: what was in scope, what it took, and what came out.
A venture-backed US security company with no compliance programme at all. Built in-house by Jacob from nothing: the controls, the change-approval flow and the asset audit. Passed with zero exceptions.
A data centre operator running three sites needed SOC 2 Type II across Security, Availability and Confidentiality alongside ISO 27001:2022 including the Climate Action Amendment. Physical and environmental controls in scope at every site, plus a datacenter platform, an AI compute platform and a self-hosted collaboration stack.
A VC-backed Ontario medtech company putting clinical AI in front of practitioners. Gap analysis, an evidence programme built for the scope, and the questions health buyers ask that SOC 2 itself never will.
The parts of a compliance programme nobody publishes: what auditors charge, why their quotes differ, and what tooling is genuinely worth.
The firm revised its number once the client's readiness position was set out and a prep firm was confirmed. Less uncertainty to price, so a smaller estimate.
Four firms, one identical scope. What actually drives a spread that size, and why the preparation spend is the cheaper half of the decision.
The client had priced a compliance automation subscription at five figures a year. They ran the whole programme in our workspace instead, and kept the evidence afterwards.
On the numbers. Everything here comes from the engagement record rather than from an estimate. Where a client is unnamed, naming permission is still outstanding rather than the engagement being hypothetical. We do not publish another firm's audit quotes, so audit pricing is described by what drives it and by the differences we saw. If you want the detail behind any of these, ask us.
One client avoided a five-figure platform subscription. Another had the audit firm lower its own quote for arriving with a documented readiness position. Both of those came out of the same 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.
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