Testing and defence led by a published security researcher with five CVEs, including a CVSS 9.1 Mirai botnet kill-switch.
All security →SOC 2, ISO, and the Canadian privacy stack, run end to end with an independent auditor.
All frameworks →Original research, free tools, and plain-language guides on security and compliance, from a published security researcher.
Read the blog →The auditor is not your enemy, but they are not on your side either. We manage the relationship and advocate for you: scoping the audit fairly, handling evidence, and pushing back on overreach so findings are accurate and the timeline holds. This applies whether you are pursuing SOC 2 or ISO 27001 implementation, and it pairs well with an ongoing fractional CISO relationship.
We sit between you and the auditor so your team ships product while the audit runs smoothly and fairly.
We connect you with an independent CPA firm that fits your stage, budget, and timeline, and handle the introduction.
We scope the engagement with the auditor so you are assessed on what actually applies, not an inflated surface that inflates the bill.
We are the single point of contact for evidence requests, so your team is not fielding auditor emails all day.
We join auditor calls, explain your controls in context, and push back on unreasonable or out-of-scope requests so findings are fair and accurate.
An engagement that stalls mid-fieldwork costs you the audit fee, the report you promised a buyer, and a second round of fieldwork later. Tell us where you are in the process and we will take the auditor relationship off your plate. What a stalled audit costs.
Book a CallNo, and that is the point. An independent CPA firm issues the SOC 2 report. We are your prep partner and liaison: we get you ready, manage the relationship, and represent you through the audit.
You can, but it pulls your team off the product and into a stream of evidence requests and calls. We handle that interface, so you get the outcome without the overhead, and someone in the room who knows what is reasonable to ask.
No. It means accurate representation. We make sure your controls are understood in context and that requests stay in scope. We are not going to misrepresent your posture, that would defeat the purpose of the report.
Your auditor gets read-only access to the same workspace, so fieldwork runs against the evidence register rather than a shared drive. That is the part teams normally pay a subscription for.
| 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.
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.
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