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ISO/IEC 27001 for startups. $5,000.

The certificate buyers outside the United States ask for instead of a SOC 2 report. An ISO/IEC 27001 certificate is issued by an accredited certification body, never by us. We build the program, the policies and the evidence behind it.

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$5,000
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an ISO/IEC 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.

Risk assessment and Statement of ApplicabilityThe two documents a certification body opens first. Your risks are scored and treated, and every Annex A control is marked applicable or justified as excluded.
All 93 Annex A controls, evidencedEach control gets an owner, an implementation note and the evidence behind it, drafted from your answers rather than copied from a sample manual.
Internal audit and management reviewThe two clauses that most often stall a Stage 1 review. Both are run and minuted in the platform, so the certification body finds them already done.

How ISO 27001 runs here.

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

  1. Step 1

    Scope the management system

    You define which products, teams and locations the information security management system covers. Scope decides everything downstream, including what the certification body charges.

  2. Step 2

    Build the Statement of Applicability

    Risks are identified, scored and given treatments, then each of the 93 Annex A controls is marked applicable or excluded with a written justification.

  3. Step 3

    Operate the management system

    Policies are drafted for you to approve, evidence is collected per control, and the platform runs the internal audit and the management review to completion.

  4. Step 4

    Stage 1 and Stage 2 audits

    An accredited body reviews your documentation, then audits it in practice. Your package is handed over in the structure they expect, with every clause cross-referenced.

What ISO 27001 costs.

Our figure is published. The certification body prices its own audit on your scope, so that half is quoted rather than guessed at.

$5,000 one time.

That covers the intake, the gap analysis, your policies, the evidence and the finished package.

Consultancies and platforms publish $15,000 to $60,000 for first-year readiness, before the certification body.

An ISO/IEC 27001 certificate is issued by an accredited certification body, and the certification audit is arranged through partner certification bodies and quoted before it begins.

What the certification body charges turns on your headcount and the scope you set, which is why scope is the first step here and not a formality.

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.

The Polara Labs side is $5,000 one time, which covers the management system, the Statement of Applicability, the policies, the evidence, the internal audit and the management review.
That is a separate engagement and we do not publish a figure for it, because the body prices it on your headcount and scope. Certification bodies commonly bill Stage 1 and Stage 2 together for a small company, and we introduce you to partner bodies and get it quoted before anything is committed.
No, and neither can any platform that tells you otherwise. Under ISO/IEC 17021-1 the body that certifies you cannot also have consulted for you, which is exactly why the two are separate and always will be.
SOC 2 is a report a CPA firm writes about a point in time or a period. ISO 27001 is a certificate that says you run a management system, so it carries an internal audit, a management review and annual surveillance. Buyers outside the United States usually ask for the certificate.
The readiness work is measured in weeks once your answers are in. The certification body then schedules Stage 1 and Stage 2, and their calendar is usually the longest part of the timeline.
The certificate runs three years with a surveillance audit in each of the two years between, then a full recertification. The management system keeps running in the platform, so the surveillance visits find live evidence rather than a scramble.

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 or an ISO 27001 certificate, 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.