SOC 2 for AI startups. Flat $199/month.
Policies, evidence, gap analysis, and hands-on support until you pass your audit. The standard route — platform, consultants, auditors — runs $30–65k in year one. We cut that to your audit fee plus $199/month.
No sales team — you talk to the founder. No per-seat pricing, no upsells mid-way.
Your enterprise deal is stuck on a security questionnaire.
You built the product. A real customer showed up. Then procurement asked for a SOC 2 report — and the deal went quiet. For a 5-person AI startup the standard answer looks like this:
- ~$10–12k/year for a compliance platform you'll use 10% of
- ~$20k for consultants to tell you what the platform meant
- an audit on top — and months of your engineers doing paperwork instead of shipping
That math is built for 200-person companies. You need the audit report, not the enterprise stack.
Audit-ready in weeks, not quarters. Your team spends 2–4 hours total.
- 1
Tell us about your company
one structured onboarding questionnaire (~45 min). Stack, data flows, how you use AI models — we take it from there.
- 2
Get your compliance package
a full SOC 2 policy set written for how AI startups actually operate (model risk, customer data in training, LLM subprocessors — covered), plus a plain-English evidence checklist: what to collect, where, with examples.
- 3
Close the gaps, pass the audit
AI gap analysis against SOC 2 criteria, an auditor-ready export, and a human on your side until you pass: we answer auditor questions with you, not disappearing after the PDF.
The audit itself is performed by an independent CPA firm (that's how SOC 2 works — nobody selling you prep can also audit you; walk away from anyone who says otherwise). We prepare you, hand your auditor a clean package, and stay until you pass.
One flat fee. Here's exactly what it buys.
Included at $199/month
- SOC 2 policy set generated for your company and reviewed by a human — not generic templates
- AI-specific coverage: model risk, training-data boundaries, AI vendor/subprocessor mapping
- Evidence checklist with owner, cadence, and examples for every item
- Gap analysis against SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria — rerun as you fix things
- Auditor-ready package export (policies + evidence index)
- Hands-on support until you pass your audit (email/Slack) — including updates when your company changes
Not included (so you can budget honestly)
- The audit itself — an independent CPA firm, typically $5–20k for Type I (market range, July 2026)
- Penetration testing (we'll point you to providers)
- Continuous-monitoring integrations — at 2–20 people you don't need them; that's the cost we cut
- HIPAA / FedRAMP / PCI (SOC 2 only; ISO 42001 & EU AI Act support is on our roadmap)
The $199 route vs. the $30–65k route
| Standard route | AttestKit | |
|---|---|---|
| Compliance platform | ~$10–12k/yr | $199/mo flat ($2,388/yr) |
| Consultants to run it | ~$20k | Included — concierge support until you pass |
| Policies | Generic templates you adapt | Written for your company, AI-specific, human-reviewed |
| Audit (independent CPA firm) | $5–20k (Type I) | $5–20k (Type I) — same audit, cleaner package |
| Your team's time | Weeks of engineer-hours | ~2–4 hours total |
| Year-one total | $30–65k | ~$7.4–22.4k (mostly the audit fee) |
Built for 2–20-person teams. If you're 50 people with a compliance hire, Vanta or Drata is honestly the better fit — we'll tell you so on the call.
Generic SOC 2 templates don't know what a model is.
Auditors and enterprise security teams are already asking AI vendors questions template libraries can't answer: Where does customer data end up — training, fine-tuning, retrieval? Which model providers are subprocessors? What's your rollback story when a model misbehaves?
Our policies and evidence checklist are built AI-first, so the answers are in your package before the questionnaire arrives. And when EU AI Act transparency obligations start applying (August 2026) and buyers ask about ISO 42001 — you'll already have the foundation.
Pricing that fits on one screen
Design PartnerFirst 5 | Core | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $149/month | $199/month |
| Who | First 5 companies | Everyone after |
| Everything included | ||
| In exchange | A named case study + 30-min feedback call each month | — |
| Price lock | 12 months | Flat, no per-seat, cancel anytime |
Add-on — Audit-prep package, $1,490 one-time: final evidence review, a mock run of auditor questions, and we join your audit kick-off call. Optional, most useful 2–4 weeks before the audit.
The audit fee goes to your CPA firm, not to us — see What's included.
Frequently asked questions
Do you perform the audit?
No — and nobody credible can both prep you and audit you. An independent CPA firm issues the report (typically $5–20k for Type I). We get you audit-ready, introduce you to auditors who work with startups our clients' size, and support you until you pass.
Will an auditor accept AI-generated policies?
Auditors evaluate whether policies fit your company and whether you actually follow them — not what software wrote the first draft. Every policy set is reviewed by a human (us) and approved by you. The AI-specific coverage is the part generic templates get wrong.
Type I or Type II — which do we need?
For unblocking a first enterprise deal, Type I (point-in-time) is usually enough and is faster. Type II (3–12 months of evidence) comes next. We map the route on the first call.
How fast can we be audit-ready?
Policies land in days; audit-ready depends on your gaps — for a typical 2–20-person cloud/SaaS stack it's weeks, not quarters. The gap analysis after your questionnaire gives a real date.
Is $199/month actually flat?
Yes. No per-seat pricing, no "premium framework" upsells, no renewal jump. What's not included is listed above — it's the audit fee, pen testing, and monitoring integrations you don't need at this size.
Are you SOC 2 compliant yourselves?
We're a new company walking the same path with the same package — and we'll sign an NDA before you share anything. Your documents and evidence live in your own storage (your Drive/Notion), not on our servers.
We're bigger than 20 people / need HIPAA.
Then we're not your tool — Vanta/Drata (scale) or a specialized firm (HIPAA/FedRAMP) will serve you better. Happy to point you in the right direction anyway: oleg@attestkit.io.
The next security questionnaire shouldn't stall your deal.
15 minutes: you describe the deal and your stack, we tell you exactly what SOC 2 will take — timeline, audit cost range, and whether we're the right fit. If we're not, you leave with a straight answer and a checklist.