Deals stall in diligence
Security questionnaires, missing reports, and unclear answers turn a warm buyer into a waiting room.
Security · Compliance · Legal
Enterprise trust.
Startup velocity.
SES helps ambitious software companies earn SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP — and gets the legal and privacy work done alongside. Senior auditors. Product-minded counsel. No compliance theater.
- Former Big 4 auditors
- In-house product counsel
- Fixed-fee scopes
Trust posture · Q4
Audit readiness
92%
controls evidenced
SOC 2 Type II 100%
Type II · operating effectively
ISO 27001 94%
ISMS · 18 risks tracked
HIPAA 89%
PHI · 24 safeguards
Next milestone SOC 2 Type II
Nov 18 1,284 artifacts auto-collected
SOC 1SOC 2SOC 3ISO 27001ISO 27701ISO 42001PCI DSS 4.0.1HIPAAHITRUSTFedRAMPGDPRUK GDPRNIST CSF 2.0NIST 800-53EU AI ActCCPA / CPRA
The trust gap
Your product moves fast.
Trust can't be an afterthought.
Enterprise buyers now run security and legal diligence before the first demo. The teams that answer well close faster. The ones that don't lose momentum — or the deal.
Evidence lives everywhere
Screenshots, spreadsheets, and Slack threads don't scale. Good evidence should come from the systems you already run.
Legal shows up late
DPAs, BAAs, and security addenda land after the architecture is set — creating rework and unnecessary risk.
What we do
One partner from gap to growth.
Readiness, audit, and the legal work around it — scoped to your stage and architecture.
All services 01
SOC 2, SOC 1 & SOC 3
The report enterprise buyers trust — scoped to your stack, backed by evidence that stays current.
Explore SOC 2 02ISO 27001 & 27701
A risk-based ISMS that opens markets — built to survive audits and actually guide the business.
Explore ISO 27001 03HIPAA & PHI Safeguards
Security and privacy safeguards for PHI — from risk analysis to BAAs and recurring review.
Explore HIPAA 04PCI DSS Modernization
Reduce scope, choose the right SAQ, and make payment security a product advantage.
Explore PCI DSS 05FedRAMP Readiness
A pragmatic path to federal trust — gap analysis, SSP support, and assessment readiness.
Explore FedRAMP 06GDPR & Global Privacy
Data mapping, DPIAs, and a privacy operating cadence that keeps pace with your roadmap.
Explore GDPRCompliance + legal
The legal side of trust, handled.
Commercial contracts, DPAs, BAAs, security addenda, open-source and AI terms — negotiated by counsel who understands the product.
Explore fractional legal- MSAs & order forms
- DPAs & SCCs
- Security addenda
- BAAs
- Open-source terms
- AI & data use
How it works
A clear path.
No black boxes.
Every engagement starts with your architecture, not a template. Four stages, one owner, visible progress.
6–12 weeks
Typical readiness timeline for a focused first audit. Scope is confirmed before we start.
Scope
We map systems, data flows, and buyer expectations. You get a defined boundary, a timeline, and a fixed-fee proposal.
Week 0–1Gap & plan
A control-by-control baseline, prioritized by deal risk and engineering effort. No 400-row spreadsheet without a plan.
Week 1–2Build & evidence
Policies, control design, and automated evidence wired into the tools you already use. Weekly working sessions, not status theater.
Week 2–8Attest & maintain
Audit support, customer-facing trust assets, and a continuous cadence so next year is easier than this one.
OngoingThe SES difference
Senior by default. Pragmatic by design.
You work with the people who do the work — auditors and counsel who have sat on the other side of the table.
Map once. Report everywhere.
A canonical control set cross-mapped to the frameworks your buyers care about. Add a standard without starting the program over.
SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA PCI DSS FedRAMP GDPR
0
handoffs to junior staff
The auditor and counsel in the room are the ones on your account.
Evidence from the tools you already run.
$ ses evidence sync ✓ aws ......... 428 ✓ github ...... 96 ✓ hris ........ 34 ready for review
Contracts that match the architecture.
Security and legal designed together, so the DPA matches the data flow and the addendum matches the product.
No surprise invoices.
Scope is agreed up front. You always know what is included, what comes next, and what it costs.
Framework coverage
One control set.
Every framework.
We build a canonical control library and cross-map it to the standards your buyers care about. Add a framework without rebuilding the same evidence twice.
See framework coverageSOC 2
ISO 27001
HIPAA
PCI DSS
FedRAMP
GDPR
NIST 800-53
HITRUST
SES control library
Insights
Field notes on building trust.
Short, actionable perspectives on compliance, security, and the legal work that closes deals.
View all insights SOC 2
SOC 2 Type I vs. Type II: what buyers actually want
The difference is more than a date range. Here is how to choose the report that matches your sales cycle — and when a Type I is enough.
Read the note Compliance
Build a control library that scales across frameworks
Stop rebuilding the same controls for every buyer. A canonical control library turns compliance from a series of projects into an operating system.
Read the note Engineering
Automating evidence from the tools you already run
The best audit evidence is a byproduct of normal operations. A practical guide to pulling artifacts from cloud, code, identity, and HR systems.
Read the noteNext step
Make trust your unfair advantage.
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