SOC 2 software that helps you win the deal — not just pass the audit
Enterprise procurement asked for a SOC 2 report. Your prospect wants evidence this week. ISO-STANDARD.app maps the Trust Services Criteria to controls, collects evidence continuously, publishes a live Trust Center your buyer can verify — and gets you Type I / Type II ready without a six-figure GRC contract.
Why SOC 2 stalls deals — and how we fix it
The pattern is always the same. A buyer's security team drops a 180-question spreadsheet. Your team spends four weeks stitching together answers from Slack, email and screenshots. By the time you send it back, procurement has already tabled the deal for next quarter.
SOC 2 done well is a revenue lever, not an audit tax. It's the artifact that lets your buyer's security team green-light the contract in one meeting. Done badly, it's a folder of stale PDFs no one trusts.
What's in the box
Trust Services Criteria mapped
Control library, auditor-ready
Continuous evidence collection
Gap → remediation → retest
Roles, MFA & append-only audit log
Public Trust Center
Why SOC 2 buyers close faster
How buyers verify you — in minutes, not weeks
Buyers don't want another PDF. They want to verify — themselves — that your controls are live, owned and reviewed on a cadence.
- Step 1
Share your Trust Center link
Send one URL. Your prospect sees active controls, subprocessors, MFA posture, incident history and your current SOC 2 status.
- Step 2
Answer the questionnaire in hours
Every answer is backed by evidence already attached to a control. Export as CSV, Word or PDF, or complete inline.
- Step 3
Route the report under NDA
Gated download of your SOC 2 report with click-through NDA — no more emailing PDFs and losing track of who has your report.
- Step 4
Close the loop
When the buyer's security team asks a follow-up, the answer, owner and evidence are one click away.
The artifacts buyers actually ask for
Every artifact below is generated inside the workspace, versioned, timestamped and shareable via a signed link — no last-minute PDF assembly, no "wait, which version did I send them?"
Who it's for
Pain: A Fortune-1000 buyer said 'send us your SOC 2 report'. You don't have one, and the deal is Q3.
With ISO-STANDARD.app: 60–90 day path to a Type I report with a live Trust Center you can share this week to keep the deal warm.
Pain: Every deal now brings a security questionnaire. Your CTO is losing a day a week to compliance email.
With ISO-STANDARD.app: One workspace, one Trust Center, one place your answers live. Reuse 80% of every questionnaire response.
Pain: Same evidence, second audit, twice the work — SOC 2 feels like starting over.
With ISO-STANDARD.app: Crosswalk between ISO 27001 Annex A and SOC 2 TSC so evidence is reused once, mapped everywhere.
"Publishing our Trust Center cut our average enterprise security review from 21 days to 4. Two deals closed that would have slipped."
Answers buyers, procurement and auditors want
Does ISO-STANDARD.app issue the SOC 2 report itself?+
No — a SOC 2 report is issued by a licensed CPA firm. The platform gets you audit-ready, hosts your evidence, manages your controls and helps your auditor run testing without a war-room week.
Can I start with Type I and grow into Type II?+
Yes. The same control set, evidence and policies carry through. Type II simply adds a monitoring period — the platform is already collecting evidence continuously.
How does this help me close deals, not just pass audits?+
Every deal-blocking artifact — Trust Center, questionnaire answers, subprocessor list, gated report download — lives in the same workspace. Your GTM team stops waiting on Security to reply to email.
What if my buyer asks a question my controls don't cover?+
Add the answer once. It's stored against your organisation, tagged, versioned, and reused on every future questionnaire.
Do I need a consultant?+
No. The workflow is self-serve. If you want a partner, our directory lists practitioners who work in the platform with you.
Related
Compare with Vanta, Drata and Secureframe. Read the SOC 2 compliance guide or see how it pairs with ISO 27001.
Sample SOC 2 evidence you can download now
Every artifact below is a redacted, anonymised export from the workspace — the same shape auditors and buyers receive under NDA. Download, share with your team, use them as a spec for what 'good' looks like.
Reviewer sign-off across AWS, GitHub, Okta, RDS, Datadog, PagerDuty — with findings, remediation and attestation.
PDF · ISO 27001 A.5.15–18 · SOC 2 CC6.2/6.3 · Cyber Essentials
100% MFA coverage across the IdP and all federated SaaS, phishing-resistant factor distribution and exception log.
PDF · ISO 27001 A.5.17/A.8.5 · SOC 2 CC6.1 · PCI Req 8.4
Monthly authenticated ASV scan of the production perimeter with SLA-tracked remediation and risk acceptance log.
PDF · ISO 27001 A.8.8 · SOC 2 CC7.1 · PCI Req 11.3 · CE+
Right-sized supplier assessment covering certifications, data protection, access, incident notification and exit plan.
PDF · ISO 27001 A.5.19–22 · SOC 2 CC9.2 · GDPR Art. 28
100% completion register with quiz scores and simulated-phishing outcomes for the annual awareness programme.
PDF · ISO 27001 A.6.3 · SOC 2 CC1.4 · GDPR · Cyber Essentials
Facilitated ransomware tabletop: participants, decisions, target vs observed timings, gaps identified and closed.
PDF · ISO 27001 A.5.24–27 · SOC 2 CC7.4 · PCI Req 12.10
Samples are anonymised for public preview. Real exports carry your workspace branding, signed timestamps and per-control mappings.
Start your SOC 2 programme today
Load the Trust Services Criteria, publish a Trust Center your buyers can verify, and be Type I ready in one quarter — with a workspace you can grow into Type II without switching tools.
Prefer a conversation? Email hello@iso-standard.app — a practitioner responds within one business day.