You hate SOC 2. You need it. Call the doctor.
Stop guessing about SOC 2. Start knowing.
AI-powered compliance oversight, backed by 27 years and 40+ SOC 2 certifications. Real templates, expert guidance, subscriber-only weekly Strategy Hours — from $499/month.
Built for organizations that have been burned by consultants who disappear and platforms that fabricate evidence.
Jen flagged this for Wednesday Strategy Hours. Catch drift in weeks, not at audit.
SOC 2 compliance is broken in three predictable ways.
You don't need another opinion about why this is hard. You've lived it. Here's what we hear from every founder who's tried the existing options.
You pay $50K–$150K, then they vanish for three months.
Templates land in your inbox. Your auditor calls in 90 days. You're scrambling to collect evidence nobody told you to start collecting on day one.
“Automated SOC 2” delivers pre-filled templates, not assurance.
The dashboard turns green. The evidence doesn't reflect reality. Some platforms have been caught fabricating audit artifacts — putting your company on the legal hook.
Your policies say one thing. Your team does another.
Nobody notices until the auditor does. By then you've lost the deal, delayed the audit, or — worse — passed with evidence that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
Built on receipts, not promises.
The oversight layer your platform can't provide.
soc2doc is the AI + human checkpoint that sits on top of your existing tools — or replaces them entirely if you're earlier in the journey.
AI-powered gap analysis
Our knowledge base is built from 40+ real SOC 2 engagements. We cross-reference your situation against actual audit outcomes — not generic checklists. Every output is reviewed by a human practitioner before it reaches you.
Battle-tested templates
15+ policy templates that have already passed auditor review. Real language from real certifications, customizable to fit your organization without rewriting from scratch.
Reality validation
We don't just check that controls exist. We validate that your documentation matches what's actually happening — so drift surfaces in weeks, not at the audit.
CISO-level guidance
Subscriber-only Strategy Hours and 1:1 sessions with someone who's sat across from auditors 40+ times. Ask anything. Get answers that actually work in front of an auditor.
The compliance industry has a trust problem.
In March 2026, Delve was exposed for fabricating audit evidence, using certification mills to rubber-stamp reports, and leaving clients quietly exposed to criminal liability under HIPAA and fines under GDPR.
It's not isolated. The compliance automation market is full of platforms that prioritize speed over substance — telling you you're “100% compliant” when you're anything but.
We don't just hand you templates. We train your compliance lead to think like an auditor.
After 90 days with soc2doc, your CTO or compliance lead doesn't just have a Vanta dashboard — they think like the person sitting across the table at the audit. They write policy like one. They scope evidence like one. They've effectively been trained as a junior auditor by someone who's been the lead auditor 40+ times.
“I feel like I'm training you to be my junior auditor.”— Vikas, in a real customer onboarding call
Simple, transparent, monthly.
No contracts. No setup fees. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice.
$499 / month
For teams starting their SOC 2 journey or maintaining a Type 2 certification with internal resources. You drive the work; we make sure you don't drive it off a cliff.
- soc2doc AI chatbot & document analysis
- Quarterly AI readiness assessment
- 15+ audit-tested policy templates
- Security position statement template
- Subscriber-only weekly Strategy Hours with Vikas (Wednesdays 12:00 PM ET)
- Monthly AI compliance status report
- “Zero to SOC 2” ebook + DIRECT framework
- Email support · 48hr response
- Slack community access
$749 / month
For teams actively preparing for a first audit or remediating known gaps.
- Everything in Navigator, plus:
- Monthly 1:1 strategy session (45 min)
- AI gap analysis with human in the loop
- Customer security assessment support
- Custom policy review & markup
- Auditor selection guidance
- Custom security position statement
- Priority email support · 24hr response
$999 / month
For organizations needing a fractional compliance officer or multi-framework coverage.
- Everything in Accelerator, plus:
- AI Process Discovery — Vikas runs the agent on your engagement
- Custom policies drafted within 48 hours — unlimited
- Multi-framework mapping — ALL frameworks included (SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, HIPAA, ISO 42001, CIS)
- Bi-weekly 1:1 with Vikas (45 min)
- Vikas joins your sales calls (up to 2/mo)
- Vikas joins your auditor calls (pre-audit + checkpoints)
- Red / yellow / green control tracking
- Third-party security review support
- Monthly drift detection & private Slack channel
*Subscriber Strategy Hours are members-only, recorded, and run on a deeper agenda than the public Open Office Hours linked in the top nav. Subscriber sessions cover tactical reviews of subscriber evidence, member Q&A, and topics voted by the community.
Every plan includes a 90-Day SOC 2 Project Plan
You don't get a subscription. You get a plan with named owners, weekly deliverables, and SOC 2 control mappings — customized to your scope and tier on Day 1.
Phase 1 — Decisions
Weeks 1–2 · Scope, auditor shortlist, control prioritization
Phase 2 — Information
Weeks 3–6 · Policies deployed, asset inventory, evidence patterns
Phase 3 — Relationships
Weeks 7–8 · RACI, sales enablement, vendor reviews
Phase 4 — Efficiency + Communication
Weeks 9–10 · Automation decisions, internal review cadence
Phase 5 — Pre-Audit Dry Run
Weeks 11–12 · Type 1 readiness, evidence package staged
Phase 6 — Type 2 Operations
Week 13+ · Drift detection, monthly reviews, audit window
Wednesdays with Vikas. 60 minutes. Bring questions.
Every week, 15 minutes of a hot topic — evidence collection, auditor prep, policy writing, war stories from real engagements — followed by 45 minutes of subscriber-only Q&A on your actual evidence and controls.
Can't make it live? Every session is recorded and posted to the subscriber Slack within 24 hours. Looking for the free, public version? That's our Open Office Hours — same host, broader agenda, no subscription required.
Zero to SOC 2 in 60 days.
The complete playbook used across 40+ successful certifications. Not theory — the exact framework that gets companies from “we need SOC 2” to “we passed.”
Built by a practitioner, not a product team.
soc2doc is led by Vikas Bhatia — 27 years in cybersecurity, 40+ SOC 2 certifications personally led, and a career spanning intelligence agencies, Big 4 consulting, global media, and 150+ organizations of every size.
This isn't a venture-backed startup trying to automate away the hard parts of compliance. It's a practitioner who's done the work, offering to guide you through it — with AI making the process faster, and experience making it right.
The Myota engagement — an enterprise data security company — is the proof case: structured monthly oversight, AI-powered gap analysis, auditor prep, and sales security support. The same system, now available to every company through soc2doc.
- Experience
- 27 years in cybersecurity & risk management
- Certifications led
- 40+ SOC 2 engagements
- Organizations served
- 150+ across every stage
- Past employers
- NGA · Deloitte · CapGemini · BBC
- Past clients
- Federal Reserve · American Express · Target
- Frameworks
- NIST CSF · SOC 2 · ISO 27001/2 · ISO 42001 · CIS · OWASP
- Currently
- Founder, ItsJen.ai — AI-driven security & compliance
AI Process Discovery
Find the gap between what your policies say and what your team actually does. That gap is where audit findings come from.
How it works
- Vikas configures the engagement and sponsors the agent inside your Slack or Teams.
- The agent reaches out to your team via async DM. Open-ended interviews, no checklists.
- It extracts roles, handoffs, systems, gaps, and risks — and triangulates across sources.
- Every output (process map, RACI, gap register, risk register, contradiction report) is reviewed and signed off by Vikas before it reaches you.
What you get back
- Process maps — swimlanes for each SOC 2 control showing who does what
- RACI charts — auto-generated from interviews, per process step
- Gap register — unowned steps, paper-only controls, undocumented handoffs
- Risk register — categorized: Revenue · Operational · Compliance · Vulnerability
- Contradiction reports — where two team members describe the process differently
- Confidence heatmaps — well-evidenced vs. single-source nodes
Goldfish-bowl transparency
Every interview, every claim, every flag is visible to you in the client portal. The opposite of how Delve worked. You see what the AI saw, who said what, and which findings have been corroborated.
Pilot client: Myota (Series B, enterprise data security). Available exclusively at Command tier.
Our moat? We don't have one. On purpose.
Most SOC 2 vendors design their products to make you dependent on them. Renewal at any cost. Lock-in disguised as “integration.”
soc2doc is designed the opposite way. By month 6, your team owns SOC 2 — even if you fire us. Knowledge transfer is built into the engagement at every tier. Your compliance lead leaves the engagement able to run an audit without us.
That's how we know you'll renew: not because you're locked in, but because the work is good.
Common questions, answered honestly.
How is this different from Vanta, Drata, or Sprinto?
Can I use this alongside my existing compliance platform?
What if we haven't started SOC 2 at all?
Is the AI component real?
Do you handle the audit itself?
Can I cancel anytime?
Your next audit doesn't have to be a fire drill.
Join soc2doc today. Get your templates, your first readiness assessment, and your seat at Wednesday Strategy Hours — all within 48 hours.