When founders ask us how long SOC 2 readiness takes, the honest answer is: as long as it takes to fix the engineering work the audit will surface anyway. The compliance platform is just a tracker.
We approach SOC 2 readiness as four engineering streams: identity, logging, change management, and resilience. Each has a target end state, an evidence artifact, and an owner. The auditor's questionnaire is the side-effect, not the goal.
Teams that try to game it with a checklist tool spend 9 months and miss Type 2. Teams that treat it as engineering ship it in 8–12 weeks and stop worrying about it.
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