Your Compliance, Now Public: Introducing Trust Centers
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Your Compliance, Now Public: Introducing Trust Centers

Maciej
10 min read

TL;DR

Your customers want proof you take security seriously. Now you can show them. Humadroid's Trust Center gives you a professional, public-facing compliance portal at your own custom domain. Share your SOC 2 status, certifications, and security documentation instantly—no consultant needed to create it, no weeks of back-and-forth with design teams. Your AI compliance officer builds it in minutes.

The Trust Tax

Here's a problem every growing company faces: your biggest enterprise prospect wants proof of compliance before signing.

They send the security questionnaire. Dozens of questions about your security practices, certifications, documentation. Your sales team scrambles. Screenshots of your dashboard don't look professional. Sending PDFs of policies feels outdated. The deal slows down while you figure out how to present your compliance posture.

Meanwhile, you're spending $200,000+ annually on compliance consultants who should have solved this. But they didn't. Because building a public-facing compliance portal wasn't in their scope (and would cost another $15k-25k if it were).

So deals drag. Prospects wait. Revenue delays.

Ready to Streamline Your Compliance?

Discover how Humadroid can simplify your compliance management process.

What Your Customers Actually Want

When enterprise buyers ask about your security, they're not trying to read your 47-page information security policy. They want answers to four simple questions:

  1. Are you certified? (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
  2. What's your compliance status? (Show me the controls)
  3. Who are your vendors? (Am I safe trusting you?)
  4. Can I see your documentation? (Policies, engagement letters)

That's it.

Every security questionnaire, every vendor assessment, every procurement process asks the same four things in different ways.

The Traditional Approach (That Doesn't Scale)

Most companies handle this through:

Option 1: Email attachments – Send PDFs of policies and certifications. Professional? Not really. Scalable? Definitely not. Trackable? Good luck.

Option 2: Shared folders – Create a Google Drive folder with "View Only" access. Better, but still manual. Each prospect needs individual access. Updating documents means re-sharing links.

Option 3: Hire consultants – Pay $15,000-25,000 for a custom-built trust center. Wait 3-4 weeks. Hope they understand your tech stack. Then pay $3,000-5,000 annually to maintain it.

Option 4: Compliance software – Buy another tool specifically for trust centers. $500-2,000/month. Another login for your team. Another integration to manage.

None of these options are good. They're all compromises between cost, time, and quality.

Humadroid's Solution: AI-Built Trust Centers

We built Trust Centers directly into your compliance platform. Why? Because your compliance data already lives in Humadroid. Your controls, certifications, policies, vendor assessments—everything a prospect wants to see is already structured and maintained in the system.

Making it public-facing took us months of development. Using it takes you minutes.

Here's What You Get

Single-Page Compliance Portal

Clean. Professional. No navigation maze, no hunting for information. Everything visible on one page:

  • Compliance project status (SOC 2, ISO 27001, custom frameworks)
  • Control implementation progress by section
  • Trusted vendor directory with risk tiers
  • Downloadable engagement letters and policies

The design is simple because enterprise buyers don't want flash. They want facts. Fast.

Three Visibility Levels

Not every prospect needs the same detail. You control what they see:

  1. Summary Only – High-level stats. "98% of controls implemented." Perfect for initial conversations.
  2. By Section – Progress bars for each control category. "Security: 98/99 implemented, Confidentiality: 7/7 implemented." Great for technical buyers who want specifics without overwhelming detail.
  3. Full Control List – Complete transparency. Every control, every requirement, full implementation status. For the paranoid (in a good way) enterprise security teams.

Choose per framework. SOC 2 at full transparency, ISO 27001 at summary level. Your compliance, your rules.

Custom Domain Support

Here's where it gets good. Your trust center doesn't live at yourcompany.humadroid.io/trust. It lives at trust.yourcompany.com.

Or security.yourcompany.com. Or compliance.yourcompany.com. Whatever you want.

Why does this matter?

  • Professional branding – Your domain, your credibility
  • SEO benefits – Links and traffic go to your domain
  • Better trust – Customers trust trust.acme.com more than acme.somevendor.io
  • Automatic SSL – We handle certificates, renewals, everything

Setup takes 5 minutes. Add a DNS record, verify your domain, done. Our system handles the rest—certificate provisioning, redirects, caching, everything technical.

Traditional approach: weeks of back-and-forth with IT and design teams. Our approach: one DNS record.

AI-Generated Engagement Letters

Enterprise buyers love engagement letters. Professional PDFs that formally document your security commitments. Consultants charge $2,000-5,000 to create these.

Our AI generates them on-demand. Company details, compliance scope, certifications, control frameworks—all pulled from your existing data. Branded, professional, cached for instant download.

Update your compliance status? Engagement letter updates automatically. No manual editing, no version confusion, no "wait let me send you the latest one" emails.

Document Control with Visibility Rules

You've spent months creating comprehensive security policies. Now you can share them—selectively.

Decide which documents appear in your Trust Center. Information Security Policy? Public. Incident Response Runbook? Internal only. Disaster Recovery Plan? Public summary, full details restricted.

Every document includes version tracking and customizable visibility. You control what the world sees.

The AI Advantage Nobody Talks About

Here's what makes Humadroid's Trust Centers different from every other compliance portal: they're built by the same AI that manages your compliance.

When you update a control in your compliance project, your Trust Center reflects it instantly. When you complete an assessment, your public progress bars update automatically. When you add a new vendor, they can appear in your trusted vendor list.

No manual syncing. No "remember to update the website" tasks. No wondering if your public information matches your internal reality.

Your AI compliance officer maintains both—your internal compliance program and your public-facing transparency—simultaneously. Because they're the same data.

Traditional consultants would need you to tell them about changes, then wait for them to update your trust center, then review their changes, then deploy. That cycle alone costs $3,000-5,000 annually.

Our AI? Real-time. Always accurate. Zero additional cost.

Real-World Impact

Let's talk numbers. Because compliance is expensive enough without adding more costs.

Traditional Trust Center Setup:

  • Consultant fees: $15,000-25,000 initial
  • Timeline: 3-4 weeks
  • Annual maintenance: $3,000-5,000
  • Updates: 1-2 weeks per change
  • Custom domain setup: $500-1,000
  • Total first-year cost: $18,500-30,000

Humadroid Trust Center:

  • Setup cost: $0 (included in your subscription)
  • Timeline: 15 minutes
  • Annual maintenance: $0 (automatic)
  • Updates: Real-time
  • Custom domain setup: 5 minutes, free
  • Total first-year cost: $0

Savings: $18,500-30,000 in year one alone.

But the real savings? Deal velocity.

When a prospect asks for proof of compliance, you send them a link. One link. To a professional portal that answers every question they have. No back-and-forth. No "let me check with our compliance team." No delays.

Faster sales cycles mean more revenue. That's the ROI that actually matters.

Security & Performance

Because we know you're wondering:

Security Features:

  • Content sanitization on all user inputs (XSS prevention)
  • No internal data exposed (comments, assignments, private notes stay private)
  • Rate limiting on public endpoints
  • HTTPS everywhere with automatic certificate management
  • CSP-compliant architecture

Performance:

  • Page load times under 500ms (with caching)
  • PDF generation under 3 seconds
  • 99%+ cache hit rates after warm-up
  • Optimized for mobile and desktop

Your Trust Center loads faster than most company websites. Because compliance information shouldn't be a technical burden.

How to Enable Your Trust Center

Ready to show the world your compliance posture? Here's how:

Step 1: Enable the Feature (2 minutes)

  1. Go to Account Settings → Trust Center → General Settings
  2. Toggle "Enable Trust Center" to ON
  3. Add your company description (shows at top of page)
  4. Save settings

Your Trust Center now exists at yourcompany.humadroid.io/trust.

Step 2: Choose What to Display (5 minutes)

  1. Go to Project Inclusions tab
  2. Select which compliance projects to make public (SOC 2, ISO 27001, etc.)
  3. For each project, choose visibility level:
    • Summary only
    • By section
    • Full control list
  4. Set display order (which appears first)

Step 3: Configure Document Visibility (3 minutes)

  1. Go to Document Visibility Rules tab
  2. Select which policies/documents to make public
  3. Set visibility level per document
  4. Save changes

Step 4: Set Up Custom Domain (5 minutes, optional)

  1. Choose your subdomain: trust.yourcompany.com
  2. Add CNAME record in your DNS provider:
    • Type: CNAME
    • Name: trust
    • Value: yourcompany.humadroid.io
  3. Enter custom domain in Trust Center settings
  4. Click "Verify Domain"
  5. Wait 5-15 minutes for DNS propagation

SSL certificate provisions automatically. Redirects configure automatically. You're done.

Step 5: Preview and Launch (1 minute)

  1. Click "Preview Trust Center" to see it before going live
  2. Share the link with your team for feedback
  3. When ready, your Trust Center is already live

Total setup time: 15 minutes. (And that's being generous.)

Trusted Vendors: Your Supply Chain, Transparent

One unique feature worth highlighting: vendor visibility.

When you manage vendor assessments in Humadroid, you can optionally display your trusted vendors publicly. Show prospects that you work with reputable partners—AWS, Cloudflare, Anthropic, other recognized names.

Each vendor entry shows:

  • Company name
  • Website link
  • Risk tier (if you choose to display it)
  • Assessment status

This builds additional trust. Enterprise buyers care who you rely on. Showing you've vetted your supply chain professionally matters.

Configure vendor visibility in the Trust Center settings. Choose which vendors appear, which details to show, and how to categorize them.

What's Next: Phase 2 Features

We shipped Trust Centers as a focused MVP. No feature creep, no complexity, just what you need to prove compliance publicly.

But we're not done. Here's what's coming based on early feedback:

  • Vendor risk visibility – Show vendor assessments and findings (if you want)
  • Embeddable compliance badges – Add trust widgets to your website footer
  • API access – Programmatic access to compliance status for integrations
  • Custom branding – Your logo, your colors, your fonts
  • Multi-language support – Serve compliance in your customer's language
  • Compliance timeline – Show your certification journey over time

Want to influence what we build next? Let us know. We build what customers actually need, not what sounds impressive in marketing decks.

The Bigger Picture

Trust Centers solve a specific problem: making your compliance posture visible to prospects and customers. But they represent something bigger.

For years, compliance has been an internal burden. Something companies do because they have to, not because they want to. The output—certifications, policies, control evidence—lived in folders and consultant reports that nobody outside the company ever saw.

That's backwards.

Compliance done right is a competitive advantage. It's proof you take security seriously. It's evidence you've invested in protecting customer data. It's differentiation in crowded markets where every vendor claims to be "enterprise-ready."

Making compliance visible isn't about showing off. It's about building trust through transparency.

Your competitors are still emailing PDFs. You have a professional compliance portal at your own domain, updated in real-time by AI, accessible 24/7.

That's not just more convenient. It's a better way to sell enterprise deals.

Get Started Today

Trust Centers are live in production now. If you have compliance enabled in Humadroid, you can enable your Trust Center in the next 15 minutes.

Already using Humadroid?
Go to Account Settings → Trust Center → Get Started

Not using Humadroid yet?
Book a demo to see Trust Centers (and our entire AI compliance platform) in action. We'll show you how we replace $200k+ consultants with AI that never sleeps.

Questions about setup?
Check our Trust Center Admin Guide for step-by-step instructions, or contact support—we're here to help.

The bottom line: Compliance transparency shouldn't cost $25,000 and take a month to build. With Humadroid, it takes 15 minutes and costs nothing extra.

Your compliance work is already done. Now share it with the world.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this included in my current subscription?

Yes. Trust Centers are included at no additional cost for all compliance-enabled accounts. You're already paying for compliance management—making it public-facing is free.

Can I use my root domain (example.com)?

No, you need a subdomain (trust.example.com) due to DNS technical limitations with CNAME records. This is industry standard—almost no trust centers use root domains.

What happens if I disable my Trust Center?

Your public page immediately becomes inaccessible. All data remains in your account. Re-enabling restores it instantly with all previous settings intact.

Can I hide specific controls or sections?

Yes. Choose "By Section" or "Summary Only" visibility to show progress without listing every control. Or exclude entire projects from public view.

How do I update my Trust Center?

You don't. It updates automatically when you update your compliance data. Complete a control? It reflects immediately. Add a vendor? They appear (if you've enabled vendor visibility). Update a policy? New version shows up.

Can prospects download my policies?

Only if you enable document visibility for specific policies. You control exactly which documents are downloadable. Most companies share high-level policies (Info Sec, Privacy) but keep detailed runbooks internal.

What about analytics? Can I see who visits my Trust Center?

Not currently. We intentionally omitted analytics to respect visitor privacy and avoid GDPR complexity. This is an MVP focused on transparency, not tracking.

How is this different from other trust center solutions?

Most trust centers are standalone products requiring separate data entry and manual updates. Ours uses your existing compliance data that your AI compliance officer already maintains. No duplicate work, no drift between internal and public info, no additional cost.

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