The real cost of compliance isn't the price tag it's the deal sitting frozen for 3 6 months while you scramble to get audit-ready.
I kept watching promising contracts stall the moment a buyer's security team asked for SOC 2 or ISO 27001. The process was brutal: gather evidence manually, write policies from scratch, coordinate with an auditor all while trying to actually run the company.
I'm launching Veridion here this Tuesday (July 21), and I wanted to start a conversation before the day itself.
Quick background on why it exists: every startup eventually hits the same wall a big customer says "we can't sign until you're SOC 2 or ISO 27001 compliant." You go get a quote, and it's $20k+ on an annual contract, right when the deal (and your runway) can least afford it. Compliance ends up blocking the very revenue it's supposed to unlock.
So I built Veridion to make it self-serve instead: