SOC 2 for startups. A practice OS for the firms that audit them.
Polara Labs builds both sides of the small end of the compliance market: the readiness platform a startup uses to earn its first SOC 2, and the practice software a boutique firm uses to run the examination.
Two products
Pick the side you are on.
Both are live today. Both publish their prices. They are separate products with separate logins.
Polara G.R.C. · For startups
Get SOC 2 ready without a compliance team.
- $4,000 one time for Type 1. Your first examination by an independent partner auditor is included in that price.
- $600 a month for Type 2 on a 12-month term, or $6,000 for the first year on a single invoice, two months free versus paying monthly.
- Audit-ready starting at about a week. The intake takes an afternoon and the dashboard tells you what to fix.
Polara Labs is not a CPA firm. The audit opinion belongs to the auditor.
Polara Enterprise · For audit and readiness firms
Run your SOC 2 engagements on one system.
- Free to join. No monthly fee, no annual commitment.
- $600 per engagement, billed when the engagement is created. Ten engagements for $5,000 if you prefer one invoice.
- Workpapers, sampling, sign-off chains, issuance gates, a client evidence portal, and roll-forward into next year.
Works alongside the tools your firm already uses. Nothing to migrate.
How the sides fit together
Same standard, two seats at the table.
Nothing here is a promise about the future. This is how the two products work today.
Startups get ready here.
A startup answers the intake, closes the gaps the rules engine finds, and hands a complete package to an independent partner auditor.
Firms run examinations here.
A firm scopes the engagement, requests evidence through its own client portal, documents the tests, records the sign-offs, and issues the report.
Evidence moves one way.
The company produces the evidence, the auditor examines it. That is the same motion on both sides of Polara Labs, and Polara Labs writes a conclusion on neither.
Next year starts from this year.
At renewal the structure carries forward and the judgment is cleared, because prior year judgment is never reused.
What is true today