# SimpleAudit

> AI-powered SOC 2 compliance for startups. Get audit-ready through conversation, not spreadsheets.

> Last updated: 2026-10-03

SimpleAudit is a B2B SaaS platform that helps startups, small companies, and mid-size teams (1-299 people) achieve SOC 2 compliance without dedicated compliance staff, expensive consultants, or enterprise-grade tools.

Website: https://simpleaudit.io

## What Makes SimpleAudit Different

- **AI-native, not AI-assisted**: The AI generates your SOC 2 policies, identifies your risks, discovers your vendors, and builds your task plan through natural conversation. You review and approve — the AI does the compliance work.
- **Conversation-first interface**: Start with a chat, not a dashboard full of empty integrations. The AI asks plain-English questions about your company and generates everything from your answers.
- **Zero integrations required**: No endpoint agents, no weeks of technical setup. Sign up and start immediately.
- **Built for non-compliance people**: Designed for startup founders and CTOs who wear the CISO hat, not compliance professionals managing 40+ frameworks.
- **Startup-friendly pricing**: From $40/mo (Starter, billed annually at $480). Essentials is $199/mo billed annually. Enterprise alternatives like Vanta, Drata, and Secureframe run $8,000-50,000/year.
- **The lean SOC 2 stack**: a security-only Type 2 audit for $5,000-$8,000 (3-month observation period, peer-reviewed boutique CPA firm), agentic penetration tests from $99 via SimpleAudit partners, and tabletop exercises (incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity) included in the Pro plan — a lean first year runs ~$21,000-$47,000 all-in for a startup vs $37,000-$84,000 the traditional way.
- **US data residency**: All data stored in Azure US regions (East US 2 / Central US). AI inference runs on Azure AI Foundry US Data Zone deployments and stays in the US — on every plan.

## Core Features

1. **AI Policy Builder** — Generate SOC 2 policies through guided AI conversation. Rich text editor, version history, approval workflows.
2. **Risk Register** — AI-suggested risks based on your company profile. 5x5 risk matrix, mitigation tracking, Excel export.
3. **Vendor Management** — AI identifies vendors from your tech stack. Risk classification, security questionnaires with OTP verification, document gap alerts.
4. **Evidence Vault** — Version-controlled file storage with full audit trail. Organized by SOC 2 control area with tagging and search.
5. **Access Reviews** — AI discovers your applications. Scheduled reviews, calendar integration, access decision audit trail.
6. **Task Management** — AI-generated task plans from compliance gaps. Cross-linked to policies, risks, vendors, and controls.
7. **Journey Readiness** — Real-time readiness scoring across 6 compliance areas. Know exactly when you're audit-ready.
8. **Evidence Push for AI Agents (Pro)** — Your AI agents and scripts push evidence straight into the vault via SimpleAudit's MCP connector or REST API. Agentless in the other direction: SimpleAudit never connects to your systems.
9. **AI Three-Way Reconciliation (Pro)** — Continuously reconciles your policies, your evidence, and the SOC 2 standard against each other; drift becomes a flagged gap with a task, so you stay audit-ready between audits.
10. **AI Tabletop Exercises (Pro)** — Guided incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity exercises with audit evidence captured as you go (traditionally $8,000-$10,000 consultant engagements each).

## Target Audience

- Startups (1-25 employees), small companies (26-150), and mid-size teams (151-299) needing SOC 2 to close enterprise deals
- Companies where the CTO, VP Engineering, or ops lead owns compliance (no dedicated CISO)
- Teams that need SOC 2 Type 1 or Type 2 but can't justify $8k+/year for Vanta or Drata
- Non-technical compliance owners who need plain language, not GRC jargon

## How It Compares

| | SimpleAudit | Vanta / Drata / Secureframe |
|---|---|---|
| Setup time | Same day | 2-6 weeks |
| Integrations required | Zero | 200-400+ available |
| AI policy generation | Full generation from conversation | Templates + AI assist |
| Pricing | From $40/mo (Starter, billed annually at $480). Essentials is $199/mo billed annually. | $8,000-50,000/yr |
| Best for | Startups and small teams 1-299 people | Companies 50-500+ people |
| Compliance expertise needed | Low (AI guides you) | Medium |
| Frameworks | SOC 2 (focused excellence) | 30-40+ frameworks |

## Pricing

- **Starter**: $480/year, billed annually only. Gets a small team audit-ready for its first SOC 2 audit: Security criteria, 1 user. 3-day free trial, no credit card required. The $480 is always credited toward the first year of Essentials, billed annually.
- **Essentials**: $199/month billed annually ($2,388/year), or $299/month month-to-month (no annual commitment). The live plan today — full platform access. Includes a Public Trust Center (Coming soon).
- **Pro**: available today at $599/month, or $399/month billed annually ($4,788/year). Adds AI three-way reconciliation (policies vs evidence vs the SOC 2 standard, with drift watching between audits), AI evidence auto-tagging and control mapping, programmatic evidence push from your AI agents (MCP connector / REST API — SimpleAudit never connects to your systems), and AI tabletop exercises for incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Pro also includes custom branding, AI answers to customer security questionnaires (Coming soon) and AI contract review (Coming soon).
- **Partner**: $599/month billed annually ($7,188/year), or $899/month month-to-month; 14-day free trial, for compliance consultancies and vCISOs. Resell client subscriptions at wholesale rates (about 40% below retail) with a co-branded partner experience; partners get everything in Pro, plus new features as they launch.
- **Free trial**: 7 days on Essentials and Pro (14 days on Partner), a 3-day trial on Starter, full access. No credit card required.

## Resources

- Full product reference: https://simpleaudit.io/llms-full.txt
- Product guides: https://simpleaudit.io/guides
- Competitive comparisons: https://simpleaudit.io/compare/vanta, /compare/drata, /compare/secureframe, /compare/sprinto, /compare/comp-ai
- Open source (policy templates, checklists, evidence guide): https://github.com/joesimpleauditio/simpleaudit
- Pricing: https://simpleaudit.io/pricing
- Contact: joe@simpleaudit.io
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/simpleaudit
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@simpleaudit