In 2024, I was closing my first enterprise deal. The prospect's legal team asked for our SOC 2 Type II report. I'd been expecting this, so I'd already gotten quotes from the compliance tools everyone recommends.
Vanta: $11,200/year. Drata: $10,800/year. Secureframe: "Let's get on a call."
We were a 3-person team doing $8K MRR. There was no version of reality where we paid $11,000 for a compliance tool before we'd even closed the deal that required one.
So I spent the next four months building ComplianceGuard. A desktop app that:
I'm not trying to compete with Vanta on integrations or auditor marketplaces. I'm trying to make SOC 2 prep accessible to the thousands of founders who get quoted $10K before their first enterprise dollar clears.
ComplianceGuard is self-funded, built in public, and priced for real teams.
Current release
SOC 2 controls covered
Pro plan, billed annually
Tests passing across backend, frontend, and Electron
Green CI workflows on every commit
Evidence categories collected from your OS
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Your data is yours. We don't want your evidence. We don't want your AWS credentials in our database. We don't want your compliance data as a product.
Privacy tools shouldn't have privacy problems. A compliance tool that requires you to send sensitive infrastructure data to a third-party cloud is a contradiction. We chose the harder path.
Small teams deserve professional tools. The market has a $10,000 floor. Below that, there's almost nothing. That gap is intentional — we're building in it.
Your data. Your infrastructure. Self-host ComplianceGuard anywhere — Docker, Railway, Render, or DigitalOcean. One command, your evidence, your control plane.