SOC 2 & ISO 27001
for Technical Founders
You built the product. You can run compliance too — if the tool speaks your language. Humadroid replaces consultants with software designed for someone who reads docs, not someone who books meetings.
- You're the technical co-founder or solo CTO
- You'd rather read a docs page than sit in a consulting call
- You can configure IAM, write policies-as-code, and still ship
- You want to own compliance knowledge, not rent it
Why compliance hits differently for you
Consultants are built for their model, not yours
Their playbook assumes a compliance manager on your end to receive handoffs. You don't have one. You are one, and you'd like the tool to act accordingly.
Templates written for companies you're not
100-page policy bundles built for 500-person orgs. You need policies that describe what you actually do — not boilerplate you'd be embarrassed to show an engineer.
Evidence collection is a time sink
Screenshots, CSV exports, Slack threads chasing who owns what. This is exactly the kind of toil a technical founder should never be doing.
How a technical founder handles an access review without it becoming a side quest
Quarterly access reviews are one of the most common SOC 2 findings — not because they're hard, but because they fall through the cracks when nobody owns them. Here's how a technical founder runs one in under an hour, with full audit evidence, without chasing anyone.
-
1Humadroid pulls current IAM state from AWS, GCP, GitHub, and Google Workspace via read-only integrations. You don't export CSVs; it does.
-
2Changes since last review are flagged: new users, elevated permissions, dormant accounts. You only look at deltas, not the whole list — which is the only reason this is doable solo.
-
3For each flagged item, you approve, revoke, or downgrade directly in the platform. The decision is logged with your user, timestamp, and reasoning. That log IS the evidence.
-
4Actions that require changes in the source system (e.g., removing a GitHub admin) generate a one-line CLI command or a pre-filled PR link. You execute; the system confirms the state change the next sync.
-
5Quarterly review complete. The evidence package — participant list, deltas reviewed, decisions made, actions executed — is generated automatically and attached to the relevant controls (CC6.1, CC6.3 for SOC 2; A.5.18 for ISO 27001).
SOC 2 and ISO 27001, shaped to your reality
Same platform, two frameworks. Pick one, start with both, or switch later.
SOC 2
The report US buyers ask for.
- Controls and evidence modeled like a system, not a checklist
- Automated collectors for AWS, GCP, GitHub, Cloudflare — connect once
- Policies generated from your actual stack, readable as source-of-truth docs
- Direct communication with your auditor, no middle layer
ISO 27001
The certificate European and enterprise buyers want.
- ISMS you can reason about — not a 300-page binder
- SoA and risk register kept as living documents, not Excel files
- Certification roadmap with clear technical deliverables
- Scope decisions you can defend technically to the auditor
What the first 60 days actually look like
Not a marketing timeline — the real sequence we see for teams like yours.
Read the system
Skim the platform's control model end-to-end. An evening of reading replaces three discovery calls. You'll know what the audit actually cares about before writing anything.
Integrate and inventory
Connect AWS/GCP/GitHub/Cloudflare. Let the platform inventory assets, users, vendors automatically. Spend your time reviewing the output, not generating it.
Scope and policies
Define audit scope in the platform (what's in, what's carved out, why). Generate and tailor policies for your stack. As a technical founder, you'll want to read them — and they're written to be readable.
Risk, controls, gaps
Run the risk assessment against your inventory. The platform shows which controls have gaps; you fix them as engineering work (which is what they are — MFA enforcement, backup tests, logging coverage).
Audit handoff
Walkthrough with the auditor. Your System Description reads like good technical documentation because you wrote it that way. Fieldwork is mechanical from here.
How Humadroid handles it
AI assistant that speaks engineer
Ask in plain terms: 'is GitHub Actions OIDC enough for auditor expectations on deployment access?' Get a specific answer, referencing your own setup. No consultant billable hour.
Learn more →Read-only integrations, no screenshots
The platform reads your cloud and source-control state directly. If it's not automatable, it's flagged — you only do manual work where manual work is actually required.
Learn more →Asset inventory as source of truth
Your inventory isn't a spreadsheet that rots. It's a live view of your environment, updated from the integrations. Drift shows up immediately.
Learn more →Risk register as a postmortem doc
Written so an engineer would respect it — threat, likelihood, impact, mitigating controls, residual risk, owner. No consulting fluff.
Learn more →Policies readable as docs
Generated from your stack, versioned, diff-able. You can point your team at them instead of pretending a PDF nobody reads is a real policy.
Learn more →Vendor management without ceremony
Track vendors, data shared, contracts, and review cadence. Re-assessments are one-click updates, not fresh questionnaires from scratch.
Learn more →What auditors actually ask teams like yours
Real questions we've seen in SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits for your cohort — and what a good answer looks like.
Who is the designated security and compliance owner, and what's their technical background?
You naming yourself (CTO / technical co-founder) is a complete answer. The auditor wants to know a human is accountable and has the skills to make decisions. The answer they don't want: 'everyone owns it'.
Walk me through a recent production change.
Expect to show the full path: code change, review, CI, deployment, logging. The auditor is mapping your real workflow to controls like CC8.1 (change management). Your GitHub + CI logs are usually already the evidence; you just need to know where to point.
Where are your policies, who wrote them, and when were they last reviewed?
Auditor is checking they're not copy-pasted templates nobody owns. Policies authored in Humadroid with your name and a review date beat a consultant-authored PDF from 18 months ago.
Show me how you detect and respond to an incident.
Cover detection source (alerts, logs), paging path, runbook, post-incident review. The auditor doesn't need a perfect PagerDuty setup — they need evidence you've thought this through and can produce a recent example.
Questions we hear a lot
Can a technical founder really run SOC 2 alone? +
Yes. SOC 2 is about documented, consistent practice — not headcount. What breaks solo efforts is poor tooling that forces founders into manual evidence collection. With automated collectors and plain-language control mapping, one technical founder can own it end to end.
How is this different from hiring a consultant? +
A consultant hands you a process dependent on them. Humadroid gives you the process plus the tools to run it. You own the knowledge, which compounds — and you can still bring in an auditor directly when the time comes.
Do I need to become a compliance expert? +
No. You need to make decisions about your own company. Humadroid translates compliance language into engineering language and vice versa so you're never guessing what an auditor wants.
What about the stuff that genuinely needs a human? +
The audit itself requires a licensed auditor (for SOC 2) or certification body (for ISO 27001). We'll connect you with ours. Everything else — prep, evidence, policy, risk — you can handle with the platform.
I already wrote some of our policies. Can I import them? +
Yes. Humadroid lets you bring your own policies and maps them against the control frameworks so you can see gaps. You don't start from zero.
What happens when I hire someone to own this later? +
They inherit a working system with a full audit trail and live evidence — not a binder to reverse-engineer. That makes the handoff hours instead of months.
Ready to stop postponing this?
Get SOC 2 or ISO 27001 on your terms — without a consultant, without a full-time compliance hire, without the dread.