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SOC 1 for startups. From $2,000.

The report a customer's financial auditor asks for when your system touches their books. A SOC 1 Type 2 report is issued by an independent licensed U.S. CPA firm, never by us. We build the program, the policies and the evidence behind it.

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From $2,000
Platform onboarding
Attestation report
a SOC 1 Type 2 report
Scoped on a call
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Independent
Issued by an independent licensed U.S. CPA firm

What you get for SOC 1.

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

Control objectives, not criteriaSOC 1 is built around control objectives you define for payroll, billing or ledger processing, and the platform drafts them from your questionnaire.
Financial reporting policiesChange management, access and processing integrity policies drafted from your own stack, scoped to what affects a customer's financial statements.
Evidence per control objectiveJob logs, reconciliations, access reviews and change tickets filed against each objective, plus the system description your customers' auditors read.

How SOC 1 runs here.

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

  1. Step 1

    Describe the financial process

    In an afternoon you describe how transactions enter, move through and leave your system, and which customers rely on those numbers for their own reporting.

  2. Step 2

    Map objectives and gaps

    A deterministic pass turns your answers into control objectives and lists the controls and evidence each one still needs before a CPA firm would test it.

  3. Step 3

    Draft policies and collect evidence

    Policies are written from your answers for you to approve, then evidence is filed against every objective, including the user controls your customers must run.

  4. Step 4

    Hand off to the CPA firm

    The examination is arranged through partner firms. An independent licensed U.S. CPA firm tests the objectives and issues the Type 1 or Type 2 report.

What SOC 1 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.

A SOC 1 Type 2 report is arranged with an independent licensed U.S. CPA firm and quoted before it begins.

SOC 1 is scoped to controls that affect your customers' financial reporting, so it does not replace a SOC 2 for security questionnaires.

Polara Labs is not a CPA firm. SOC 2 examinations are performed by independent licensed U.S. CPA firms.

SOC 1 questions.

What buyers ask, and what the work actually involves.

Platform onboarding starts at $2,000. The SOC 1 examination itself is arranged through partner firms and priced by the CPA firm on your scope, after a short call to confirm that scope.
SOC 1 if your customers' financial auditors need assurance over the controls in your system, which is common for payroll, billing and fintech vendors. SOC 2 if buyers are asking about security. Many vendors carry both.
An independent licensed U.S. CPA firm. Polara Labs prepares the objectives, policies and evidence but is not a CPA firm and does not issue the opinion.
Complementary User Entity Controls (CUECs) are the steps your customers must take on their side, like reviewing their own user access, for your controls to work. The platform drafts them so the report can list them.

Unblock the deal.

Tell us where you are with SOC 1 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.