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ISO/IEC 27001 for startups. From $2,000.

The certificate international and enterprise buyers ask for when SOC 2 is not enough. An ISO 27001 certificate is issued by an independent accredited certification body, never by us. We build the program, the policies and the evidence behind it.

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Platform onboarding
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an ISO 27001 certificate
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What you get for ISO 27001.

The same platform every framework runs on, pointed at this one: your answers, your evidence, your documents.

Statement of ApplicabilityEvery one of the 93 Annex A controls marked in or out of scope, with the reason, built from your own answers rather than a blank template.
Risk register and treatment planYour assets, threats and likelihoods scored in one register, with a treatment plan that ties each accepted risk to an owner and a date.
Internal audit and management reviewThe two things startups most often miss before Stage 1: an internal audit record and a management review with minutes an auditor can read.

How ISO 27001 runs here.

Four steps, in this order, with the handoff at the end.

  1. Step 1

    Answer the intake in an afternoon

    One questionnaire about how your company actually runs: people, systems, vendors, data. Most founders finish it in a single sitting.

  2. Step 2

    See the gaps against all 93 controls

    A deterministic gap analysis maps your answers to Annex A and the clause 4 to 10 requirements, so you know what is missing before you write anything.

  3. Step 3

    Get policies and the binder drafted

    Policies, the Statement of Applicability and the risk register are drafted from your answers, then you review, edit and collect evidence into one binder.

  4. Step 4

    Stage 1 and 2 with an accredited body

    An accredited certification body, arranged through partner firms, checks your documentation in Stage 1 and tests operation in Stage 2, then issues the certificate.

What ISO 27001 costs.

Published where it can be published, and arranged with the firm that signs it where it cannot.

$2,000 one time for platform onboarding.

That is the intake, the gap analysis, your policies, the evidence binder and the handoff package.

An ISO 27001 certificate is arranged with an independent accredited certification body and quoted before it begins.

ISO 27001 certificates are issued only by accredited certification bodies. Polara Labs prepares your management system and evidence; the body's Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits and its fees are arranged through partner firms.

Polara Labs is not a certification body. Certification audits are performed by independent accredited certification bodies.

ISO 27001 questions.

What buyers ask, and what the work actually involves.

Platform onboarding starts at $2,000 and covers the gap analysis, policies, Statement of Applicability, risk register and evidence binder. The Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits are arranged through partner firms and priced separately by the certification body.
Roughly seventy percent. Access control, change management, vendor management and incident response map straight across. What is new is the management system: the Statement of Applicability, the risk treatment plan, an internal audit and a management review.
No. Only an accredited certification body can issue an ISO 27001 certificate, and the standard requires that body to be independent of whoever helped you prepare. We build the system and the evidence; the body audits it.
Most startups reach Stage 1 in two to three months and Stage 2 a month or two after that, depending on how quickly evidence accumulates. The certification body's schedule is the other variable and is confirmed on the scoped call before anything is billed.

Unblock the deal.

Tell us where you are with ISO 27001 and we will tell you what is left.

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Polara Labs builds both sides of the audit: the readiness platform startups use to earn a SOC 2 report, an ISO 27001 certificate or whatever their buyers ask for, and the practice OS audit firms use to run the examination. Every price is published on the page it belongs to.

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Polara Labs is not a CPA firm. SOC 2 examinations are performed by independent licensed U.S. CPA firms in our network; the audit opinion is theirs alone and is not regulated by Polara Labs. We generate custom policies, evidence checklists, and remediation guidance. You remain responsible for implementing controls and owning audit outcomes. Replace placeholders with your actual controls and have final documents reviewed by qualified professionals before your audit.