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goes agentic

Your AI is already smart enough to handle SOC 2 prep. What it doesn’t have is the guardrails: what counts as evidence, what a control actually needs, where an auditor will push. That’s what we give it, and we ride the AI to do the rest. So there’s no reason left to pay a compliance platform $10,000 a year for prep. We bring that down by 95%.

Same for the audit. We cut the human work that never needed a human, collect your evidence right inside your own AI, and keep a licensed auditor on the judgment. Better quality, faster, and a fraction of the price.

And if you’d rather not take our word for any of it, don’t. Our entire audit methodology is open source and battle tested. It’s all on GitHub: what we test, what counts as evidence, what passes and what doesn’t. Verify it yourself, dig as deep as you want.

Two ways. A one-time readiness fee for the Chiaro platform, which covers getting you audit-ready and keeps your controls monitored. And the audit itself, which we run as a licensed CPA firm, so you pay us directly. Your Trust Center comes free with any audit. Nothing recurs. The readiness fee is about 95% cheaper than the big compliance platforms, and there’s no separate auditor marking up the audit. No data resale, no hidden fees.

Yes, the real thing. Not a summary, not a cleaned-up version for show. It’s the exact methodology we run on every engagement, published on GitHub, and you can read all of it before you pay us a cent. The only things not in the repo are the platform itself and the exact phrases our anti-gaming gates match on, and the README says so.

We designed our process specifically to comply with the AICPA’s newest independence rules, effective June 2026. Doing readiness and then the examination for the same client is explicitly permitted (ET 1.295.040) and is normal practice across the profession. You make every decision and you own your controls. That is written into our engagement letter, so your security team can read it there.

The platform is what keeps it clean in practice. Readiness runs inside your own AI, on your own machines, so control design stays yours. We tell you what is missing and what good looks like; you build it. At the audit we collect the evidence fresh and examine what you built. The full mechanism and citations are in the Field Manual write-up.

MCP is just the standard way today’s AI tools connect to outside services. You add Chiaro to the AI tool you already use, like Claude or Cursor, in one line. After that you talk to it in plain English, and it does the work with you: gathering what’s needed from your own systems, checking it, and pointing out what to fix. Nothing leaves your machine unless you approve it, and there’s nothing new to learn.

No. Chiaro collects the evidence for you, automatically, through your own AI. There is nothing else to buy or connect.

Yes. It finds your gaps, guides you through the fixes, collects the evidence, manages the audit engagement and billing, and publishes your trust center. One product, start to finish, inside the AI tool you already use.

Of course. The Chiaro platform is yours, and you can take your work to any auditor you like.

This is exactly who we built Chiaro for. We shape everything around how your team actually works, instead of forcing you into controls and paperwork meant for a big company. You won’t have to invent an org chart, approvals, or processes you don’t really have. You get a real, honest report that holds up, sized to a team like yours.

That’s where most people start, and it’s completely fine. You don’t need to know anything about SOC 2 or have anything in place first. Chiaro looks at how you run things today, tells you in plain terms where the gaps are, and walks you through fixing them one step at a time until you’re ready for the audit. You make the calls. We tell you what good looks like.

Yes. When you create your account, pick the audit instead of starting the readiness trial, and you skip the readiness fee entirely.

Just know that there’s no prep step to fix things first, so anything we find during the examination goes in your report as an exception. If your controls are already in place, that’s fine. Most teams run readiness first.

Start with 30 days free, with full access. Cancel before the 30 days are up and you are never charged. After that the readiness fee is a single charge, and you can stop before any audit charge you have not paid yet. We’d rather you leave than feel stuck.

We’re US-based, in Austin, Texas. Chiaro is a product of Y Assurance PLLC, a licensed CPA firm regulated by the Texas State Board of Public Accountancy (Firm Registration No. C12398), working under AICPA attestation standards. We’re enrolled in the AICPA Peer Review Program, the profession’s own quality check on firms that issue reports like these. Our founder is a dual-licensed CPA in California and Texas. Want to verify any of it, or need more from us? Just ask us.