The hidden SOC 2 bill

Your audit does not need another 150-hour handoff.

GRC tools find the gaps. Your team still has to interpret them, trace the infrastructure, draft the fix, collect approvals, and prove the work. That coordination is where the calendar disappears.

Estimated engineering effort per audit 150–300 hours

RedSecLabs' estimate for a SOC 2 audit, even with a GRC platform already in place.

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One company's 150 hours

The audit pulls in the people building the company.

A founder shared his company's actual time breakdown. Engineering carried the largest share, while executive and operating roles absorbed another 42%.

  1. Head of Engineering55h · 36.7%
  2. CEO35h · 23.3%
  3. Chief of Staff28h · 18.7%
  4. Security / compliance support14h · 9.3%
  5. Additional contributors18h · 12.0%

~$90,000reported fully loaded time before the auditor invoice

Head of Engineering 55 hours, CEO 35 hours, Chief of Staff 28 hours, security and compliance support 14 hours, and additional contributors 18 hours. REPORTED TOTAL 150 hours
One founder's reported breakdown. Treat it as a single data point.
The coordination tax

One finding. Six separate queues.

01GRC findingDetected
02TicketAssigned
03EngineerInvestigated
04Pull requestReviewed
05DeploymentVerified
06EvidenceMapped

Every handoff adds waiting, context loss, and another place for evidence to go missing.

A different operating model

Keep the decisions. Compress the work between them.

Without Tudovu

Engineering runs the audit queue

  • Translate findings into technical work
  • Reconstruct context across tickets and consoles
  • Draft and test infrastructure changes
  • Return later to capture screenshots and evidence

With Tudovu

Engineering reviews the decision

  • Receive a prioritized finding with infrastructure context
  • Review the proposed change in the repository
  • Approve through the existing deployment pipeline
  • Keep the result attached to the control and evidence trail

Tudovu drafts work for review. Your team decides what merges and deploys. Your independent auditor determines the audit outcome.

From our own audit

We cleared our SOC 2 gap assessment in two focused days.

We built the workflow because we needed it ourselves. Read how infrastructure-as-code, evidence discipline, and agent-assisted remediation changed the pace of our assessment.

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Start with your environment

See the queue your team would not have to build by hand.

We will review a sandbox or scoped AWS account and show how findings become reviewable fixes and evidence.