Vanta starts at $10,000/year. Drata at $7,500/year. And that's before the auditor. Compliance Fabric delivers the same audit-ready compliance automation for as low as $300/month — guided by weekly 10-minute check-ins, not a dashboard your team ignores.
When a prospect asks for your SOC 2 report, you have a choice — and neither option works well for small businesses today.
Most compliance platforms assume you have a dedicated compliance manager. You don't. So we built something different.
We integrate with your existing stack — Slack, Teams, Google Workspace, AWS, GitHub, and more — to pull evidence automatically where possible.
Every week, 3–5 plain-language questions arrive via Slack, email, or SMS. Your ops person answers them in 10 minutes. Each answer becomes timestamped compliance evidence.
Answers are organized into controls automatically. Policies are pre-drafted from templates and refined to your environment. Your audit package assembles in the background.
When you're ready for your auditor, export a complete evidence package. Our auditor partners know our platform — they spend less time gathering, more time reviewing. Lower audit bills for you.
Prompts continue weekly. You never fall out of compliance. Annual re-certification becomes a formality, not a fire drill.
Were any employees onboarded or offboarded this week? If yes, were their system access permissions updated within 24 hours?
For a 10–30 person startup pursuing SOC 2 Type 2 certification in year one.
| Cost Category | DIY / Spreadsheets | Enterprise Platform (Vanta / Drata) |
Compliance Fabric |
|---|---|---|---|
| Platform / Software | $0 but pay elsewhere | $10,000–$50,000/yr | $3,600–$7,200/yr |
| Compliance Consultant | $15,000–$25,000 | $5,000–$15,000 | Included in platform |
| Internal Staff Time | 600+ hrs (~$60,000 fully-loaded) | 200–400 hrs (~$25,000) | <50 hrs (~$5,000) |
| SOC 2 Audit Fee | $20,000–$40,000 | $20,000–$40,000 | $12,000–$25,000 partner rate |
| Time to Certification | 12–18 months | 6–12 months | 6–9 months |
| Re-certification (Year 2+) | Repeat the pain | $10,000–$50,000/yr + audit | Platform subscription only |
| Year 1 Total (est.) | $65,000–$125,000 | $40,000–$100,000 | $20,000–$37,000 |
* Estimates based on a 10–30 person company. Internal time valued at $100/hr fully loaded. Audit fees vary by auditor and scope.
Too small for enterprise compliance platforms. Too exposed to ignore compliance. Sound familiar?
You're losing or stalling enterprise deals because you can't produce a SOC 2 report. The $10,000 minimum for Vanta or Drata isn't in budget yet — but losing a $120,000 contract hurts more.
HIPAA compliance is the law, not optional. And if you want hospital or health system contracts, SOC 2 isn't far behind. We cover both — together — so you don't pay twice.
Government and enterprise vendor onboarding now requires SOC 2. Your 10-person team doesn't have a compliance manager. Our weekly prompts make it manageable for whoever you assign it to.
Client data means regulatory exposure. Whether it's SOC 2, ISO 27001, or both, your clients expect a compliance posture that matches the sensitivity of what they've entrusted you with.
Small-client SOC 2 audits are historically unprofitable. You spend 60–80% of your engagement hours just gathering evidence from disorganized clients. Compliance Fabric changes that math.
Every tier includes the weekly prompt system, evidence vault, and policy templates. Pick the framework count and support level you need.
The compliance software market is valued at $36 billion in 2025 and growing at 12.7% annually. Within SMB software, security and compliance is the single fastest-growing segment — at 16% CAGR.
But every platform in the market is built for companies with 100+ employees and a dedicated compliance team. The 60,000+ startups and small businesses that need SOC 2 or HIPAA certification have been left to choose between expensive enterprise tools or painful DIY approaches.
Compliance Fabric occupies the gap: automated, affordable compliance for businesses with 5–100 employees who can't justify a $50,000/year compliance investment but absolutely need the certification to grow.
We're onboarding a limited number of early-access customers. Founding customers lock in current pricing permanently and get direct input into the product roadmap.
Whether you're a business pursuing compliance, an audit firm looking for a partner program, or an investor or SBA evaluator — we'd love to talk.