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 →A big deal is sitting in the buyer’s security review and it won’t move. You need a credible, named security leader they can talk to, plus fast help answering the questionnaire and closing the gaps they flagged. That’s exactly this engagement.
The deal gets unstuck: the questionnaire is answered credibly, the blocking gaps are closed or credibly committed, and the buyer’s security team has a real CISO to sign off with, so procurement can move.
Sometimes the buyer will accept a credible SOC 2 in progress plus interim controls. Where they need the report, the gap analysis gives you a dated plan to share with the buyer, driven by the gaps found and the auditor’s schedule. We help you negotiate what the deal actually requires versus what the questionnaire asked for.
Yes. A named fractional CISO engages the buyer’s reviewers directly. That credibility is often what actually moves a stalled review.
Quickly. Unblocking the deal is the whole point. We prioritize accurate answers and flag anything that needs a control in place first. We confirm timing on the call.
We triage their objections into must-fix-now versus commit-to-on-a-roadmap, close the blocking gaps, and give the buyer a credible plan for the rest.
The price above covers the work. It also covers where the work lives, which most buyers are quoted separately as an annual platform subscription.
| 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.
Book a free 30-minute call. We’ll tell you whether it fits, what it costs, and when we can start.
Book a callNot ready to scope this yet? Open a free Workspace and score yourself against the framework first. It is the same register we work from during an engagement, so nothing you do there gets thrown away.
See what the Workspace does →Free PDFs, no card
SOC 2 readiness, ISO 27001 gaps, incident response and vendor security, as PDFs you can print or forward. Free, no card.
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Track record
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 with zero exceptions.
The platform stayed in production 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.