From first conversation to audit-ready

The deal is waiting on a spreadsheet. A prospect sends a SIG Lite, and the deal waits until it comes back. Someone copies last year's answers and promises a few things you don't actually do. Your auditor finds the mismatch later. Each answer cites your policy or your records. Questions SimpleAudit can't back become plain questions for you, and any new promise puts a policy update on your to-do list. The questionnaire goes back in days, your answers match what your auditor sees, and saved answers make the next one faster.

Exhibit C. Your customer's security exhibit says you will report a breach within 24 hours. Your policy says 72. Legal reads the liability clause and sales reads the price. Nobody reads Exhibit C, and you sign a promise you don't keep. SimpleAudit marks every security clause Covered, Partly covered or Not covered, and quotes your policy where it is covered. Each gap says how to fix it: update your policy when the ask is normal, or push back with replacement wording when it goes beyond SOC 2 norms for a company your size. On a supplier's contract, it asks for stronger terms and never lowers your bar. You sign knowing every security promise in the contract is one you already keep.

The policy says quarterly. Your access policy says you review who has access every quarter. Your records show one review, last year. Nobody compares the two until your auditor does. The missed reviews become a finding in your SOC 2 report. Policy vs. Reality checks what your policies promise against your evidence and flags the gap when the two stop matching. It opens a task to close it, and you decide whether to run the missing reviews or update the policy. You close the gap before your audit starts, and your auditor sees a policy and records that agree.

The plan nobody has tested. Your auditor asks when you last tested your incident response plan. The plan exists, but nobody has ever run it. You hire a consultant for a day, or you skip the test and hope the question does not come up again. SimpleAudit writes an incident exercise around your own systems and vendors, and your team works through it on your usual video call. You record each decision as the ransom note and the news headline appear on screen. You sign off the after-action report, it is saved as evidence, and your answer to the auditor is a date and a document.