v0.1 · Internal technical brief, now a working product

Compliance, mathematically reproducible.

Vanta charges $10–80k to format your evidence. Your CPA charges another $15–50k to read it. We collapse both into a single delivered certification — anchored to a public transparency log, signed by a licensed CPA, by a guaranteed date.

Type II, all-in
$12,500 flat
▮ SYS.LOADAnchoring evidence000%
PWR ░░ boot· · · · · · · ·
> INSERT_COIN · merkle root pending · rekor anchor queued
SHA-256every artifact, at capture
RekorSigstore anchoring, daily Merkle root
AICPAlicensed CPA signs the opinion
MCP375+ systems, zero hand-coded glue
[01]The bet

Vanta's moat is trust intermediation — and AI routes around it.

Their "400 integrations" are now a depreciating asset. MCP and agents ingest any system from natural-language docs. Control mapping is a single prompt. Policy templates are commodity output.

What's actually defensible — auditor relationships, buyer-side brand recognition, reliability of continuous monitoring — are trust moats, not technology moats.

So we don't build a better Vanta. We build the platform their auditors run instead — and we collapse the two bills into one outcome.

[02]Structural impossibility matrix

Every row is a commitment Vanta has already made — to a pricing model, a channel, a data substrate, an investor narrative — that is now a constraint, not an asset.

Capability
Vanta
Audit-Native
Outcome pricing — fixed fee for delivered cert
○ no
● yes
CPA white-label as primary channel
○ no
● yes
Cryptographically anchored evidence
○ no
● yes
One bill collapsing platform + audit
○ no
● yes
Sub-$15k Type II, all-in
○ no
● yes
Live signed attestation API (not a static PDF)
◐ partial
● yes
Behavioural-fabric nudges that fix human findings
◐ partial
● yes
Date-guaranteed delivery
○ no
● yes
Greenfield agent stack, no legacy plumbing
○ no
● yes
[03]Five-layer architecture

The deep moat is the evidence substrate.

Vanta's evidence lives in a normalised database. Retrofitting cryptographic anchoring would re-timestamp eight years of history — meaningless. A greenfield build ships it on day one and compounds with every artifact captured.

L05
Trust Surface
Live signed attestation API + buyer UI. Replaces the static Trust Center PDF.
L04
Auditor Workspace
CPA-native review. Agent-drafted findings, evidence chains, opinion section.
L03
Agent Mesh
7-agent orchestration with a Governance meta-agent that vetoes uncited claims.
L02
Evidence Substrate
SHA-256 at capture · daily Merkle root · Sigstore Rekor anchor. The compounding moat.
L01
System of Record
Customer systems via MCP. Read-only, scoped, immutably logged.
[04]One bill. One date. One outcome.
SOC 2 Type I
$7,500
delivered 30 days
Money-back guarantee if we miss the date for reasons within our control.
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SOC 2 Type II
$12,500
delivered by guaranteed date
Money-back guarantee if we miss the date for reasons within our control.
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ISO 27001
$14,500
delivered 90 days
Money-back guarantee if we miss the date for reasons within our control.
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HIPAA
$9,500
delivered 45 days
Money-back guarantee if we miss the date for reasons within our control.
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Today's combined Vanta + auditor spend: $30–80k per Type II, plus ~120 hours of internal team time. We deliver the same outcome at ~80% lower cost because we collapse two payments into one workflow — auditor labor drops from 60+ hours to ~10.

The single-sentence test

"We deliver a cryptographically auditable SOC 2 Type II, signed by a licensed CPA, by a guaranteed date, for under $15,000 — and any auditor in the world can reproduce our work."