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Free SOC 2 Readiness Assessment
How ready are you for SOC 2? Answer a few questions about your current security and compliance practices. Get a practical readiness score and see which areas may need attention.
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20 questions · about 3–5 minutes
This is not an audit, not a certification, and not an official AICPA checklist. Actual SOC 2 work depends on scope, Trust Services Criteria, your controls, and an independent auditor.
About 4 minutes
20 questions. A planning score. Not an audit.
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What is a SOC 2 readiness assessment?
It is a way to inspect your current habits — access, people, vendors, incidents, evidence — before you spend money on fieldwork. You are looking for missing owners and missing records, not a score that replaces an auditor.
What does this assessment check?
Twenty practical questions across scope, access, people, security operations, policies, vendors, change, incidents, backups, risk, and evidence. They are readiness indicators. They are not every control an auditor may test.
Weighted high-impact habits
MFA, leavers, incidents, risk tracking, and evidence count more than a single nice-to-have.
Gaps you can act on
The result lists next actions from your lowest, highest-weight answers — not a generic blog list.
What it does not check
Legal opinions, Trust Services Criteria selection, auditor sampling, or whether Type 1 or Type 2 is right for a buyer.
How to interpret your SOC 2 readiness score
The number is 0–100, normalized from weighted answers. It is labeled a readiness score on purpose. Do not read it as “X% SOC 2 compliant.” Early stage, foundations, building audit readiness, and a strong foundation are planning bands — not pass/fail.
What happens after a readiness assessment?
Pick a few gaps, assign owners, and start producing evidence that matches the policies you will claim. If you want company-specific drafts, AuditBird is built for that work later — still with human review, still with an independent auditor at the end.
Related reading: SOC 2 for small SaaS teams, SOC 2 for startups, SOC 2 checklist, policy templates, and AI compliance.
SOC 2 readiness assessment vs SOC 2 audit
Readiness is internal. An audit is an independent examination that produces a report a customer can request. No software questionnaire, including this one, issues that report or decides your opinion rating.
SOC 2 readiness for startups
Enterprise buyers usually trigger the work — not headcount. A five-person team can prepare if someone owns it. You still do not need a 2,000-person GRC operating model. You need scoped practices, honest policies, and evidence you can find.
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It is a structured way to see whether your current security and compliance practices would hold up as a starting point for a SOC 2 program. It is planning work — not the examination an independent CPA firm performs.
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