SecureSlate for Startups
You are not a compliance team. So stop doing compliance work.
SecureSlate gives early teams a dedicated compliance lead and an AI platform that does the audit prep founders and engineers usually absorb. SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001, HIPAA, and GDPR on fixed pricing, so the deal that is waiting on your security report stops waiting.
Why now
Compliance landed on your plate, and nobody warned you how long it stays there.
Every startup hits the same three walls, usually in the same week.
A deal is waiting on a report you do not have
Security review shows up late in the sales cycle, usually from the largest customer in your pipeline. The certification takes months. The deal will not wait that long, so the quarter slips.
Nobody at the company has done this before
There is no security hire, no GRC function, and no one who knows which of SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or GDPR actually applies to you. Scoping alone eats weeks before a single control gets written.
Your engineers become your compliance team
Evidence screenshots, policy drafts, and access reviews land on the people who should be shipping product. The cost is not the hours. It is the momentum you lose at the worst possible time.
How it works
We run the program. You approve the decisions that matter.
Four stages from the first call to a report you can send a buyer, with a named person accountable at every one.
Free scoping call
We look at your product, your data, and who is asking for proof. You leave the call knowing which framework to start with, what the audit will cost, and how long it takes. No obligation and no sales retainer.
Gap analysis and roadmap
Your dedicated compliance lead maps your current state against the framework and hands you a dated plan. You see every control you are missing and who owns it before any work starts.
We do the build, you approve it
Policies drafted for your business, controls implemented, integrations connected, evidence collected automatically. Your team reviews and approves rather than researching and writing from scratch.
Audit, then continuous monitoring
We run the readiness review, manage the auditor relationship, and stay with you through fieldwork. After the report lands, monitoring keeps the program current so year two is a renewal, not a rebuild.
What is included
Your first security hire, without the headcount.
Expert work, the platform, and the security scanning arrive together under one fixed price.
A dedicated compliance lead
An experienced practitioner who owns your program end to end, joins your Slack, and answers your auditor's questions. Effectively your first security hire, without the headcount.
Fixed pricing, no hourly billing
One price agreed before we start, covering the platform and the expert work. No surprise invoices, no open-ended retainer, and no per-seat penalty for hiring.
Automated evidence collection
Connect your cloud, identity provider, and code host once. Controls are tested continuously and evidence is captured on a schedule, so audit prep is not a two-week fire drill.
A Trust Center buyers can self-serve
Publish your posture, subprocessors, and documents on a live page you can link from your website. Prospects get answers before they open a questionnaire.
Questionnaire automation
Security questionnaires get answered from your existing evidence and past responses instead of from your founders' evenings. Long spreadsheets stop being a bottleneck.
Security scanning included
Code security, secrets detection, dependency and license risk, and dark web monitoring ship as part of the engagement, not as a separate subscription you buy later.
Testimonials
Teams that had no compliance function either
What founders and operators say after their first audit.
HIPAA isn’t something you do once. SecureSlate connected our tools, owners, and evidence so we can prove our program without the constant scramble, and we get 50+ hours a week back.
Edward CEO at HealthHaven
We always knew the next step. SecureSlate made ISO 27001 feel manageable for a non-security team, and we reclaimed 200+ hours while getting audit-ready in under seven weeks.
Catherine Director at Quality Early Years
One dashboard for the whole ISO 27001 process. It’s intuitive, saves time, and brought everything together so we could certify without slowing operations.
Tristan CEO at Senbee A/S
Reasons teams wait
The best time to get compliant was before the deal. The second best time is today.
“We are too early for this.”
Early is exactly when it is cheapest. A twelve-person company has a small control surface, few vendors, and no legacy systems to retrofit. The teams that struggle are the ones who start after a deal forces their hand.
“We do not have the time to run this.”
You are not running it. Your compliance lead does the scoping, the policy drafting, and the auditor coordination. Your team's time goes into approvals and the handful of technical changes only they can make.
“We cannot justify the spend right now.”
Compare it to the deal that is currently blocked. Our pricing is fixed and agreed up front, so you can put a real number next to the revenue it unblocks instead of guessing at a consultant's hourly total.
“We only need SOC 2 today.”
Then start with SOC 2. The controls you implement carry over, so when a customer in Europe asks for ISO 27001 or a health system asks for HIPAA, you are adding a framework rather than starting a second program.
FAQs
What founders ask before they start.
It depends on your framework and starting point, but startups move fastest because there is less to untangle. Our customers have reached ISO 27001 audit readiness in under seven weeks. Your scoping call gives you a dated plan before you commit to anything.
Start with whatever your buyers are asking for. SOC 2 Type II is the usual answer for US SaaS, ISO 27001 for European and enterprise buyers, and HIPAA if you touch protected health information. We work this out with you on the free scoping call rather than selling you the largest scope.
No. It is the situation most of our startup customers are in. Your dedicated compliance lead does the work an in-house GRC hire would do, which is why teams with zero compliance function can still run a credible program.
SecureSlate is fixed price. You agree the number before work starts and it covers the platform and the expert work together. There is no hourly billing, no upfront fee, and no separate subscription for the security scanning. Audit fees are paid to your auditor directly and we tell you what to expect for those up front.
We run the readiness review, introduce you to auditors we work with regularly, prepare the evidence package, and stay with you through fieldwork. The audit opinion comes from an independent auditor, which is what makes the report worth anything to your buyers.
The program keeps running. Controls are tested continuously, evidence keeps collecting, and drift is flagged when it happens rather than a month before your surveillance audit. Year two becomes a renewal instead of a second first-time project.
Yes, and it is often the cheapest moment to do it. If you are pre-revenue and trying to work out sequencing, book the scoping call anyway. If the honest answer is that you should wait, we will tell you that.
Get the compliance work off your founders
Bring us the framework your buyers are asking for. You will leave the call with a scope, a timeline, and a fixed price, whether or not you work with us.
