Be the answer.
Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude who to hire — and the AI names a few firms. We make sure yours is one of them. We're a holistic marketing agency focused exclusively on SOC 2 and compliance: wherever you sit in the compliance stack, getting you recommended by AI is all we do. Nowhere else, nothing else.
This is what your buyers see now.
No ten blue links. No ads to buy your way in. One synthesized answer with two or three names — and a short list of sources the engine trusted. If you're not in the answer, you're not in the deal.
- We run the exact prompts your buyers type, on every major engine
- You see who gets recommended instead of you — and which pages get cited
- Then we fix the gaps: your facts, your content, your citations
- Your firm here — this spot is the product. It's earned from the sources the engine trusts, not bought.
- A competitor the engine already knows
- Another competitor with stronger citations
Illustrative mockup. Your free audit shows the real answers for your category.
“Buyers aren't searching anymore. They're asking — and they shortlist whoever the AI names. We built this agency for exactly that moment.”
Tyler Blake · Editor, SOC 2 Type 2One stack. One industry.
Every service exists for a single purpose: making security and compliance firms the names AI engines recommend and buyers find. If it doesn't serve that, we don't sell it.
AI Visibility Audit
We ask the engines the exact questions your buyers ask and record who gets named, who gets cited, and why. You see the real answers — not a sales deck.
Answer Engine Optimization
We restructure your site and your facts so AI models can find, understand, and recommend you: entity clarity, structured data, llms.txt, citable data, and presence in the third-party sources models pull from.
Search Strategy for Compliance Buyers
Keyword and content strategy aimed at the prompts and searches that turn into pipeline — mapped to your frameworks: SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC, NIST.
Technical SEO
Crawlability, site architecture, internal linking, and the fixes that let both Google and AI crawlers actually read what you sell.
Content & Digital PR
Original cost data, guides, and research that journalists, directories, and AI models cite — the mentions that move both rankings and recommendations.
Tracking & Reporting
Monthly reporting on the prompts that matter: who the engines recommend, your share of voice against named competitors, and which citations you gained or lost.
From invisible to recommended.
See the real answers
The free audit runs your category's buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude — and shows you exactly where you stand today.
Fix what's missing
We work the gaps the audit finds: your site's structure and facts, the content the engines cite, and your presence in the sources they trust.
Track it monthly
AI answers shift as models recrawl and retrain. We monitor your prompts every month and keep building whatever moves them.
The preferred independent directory of SOC 2 auditors.
This site began as — and still is — a working directory buyers use every day. Every firm below is a real, operating, licensed audit practice with a verified website. Listings are not endorsements, and auditor listings are never pay-to-rank.
Zero Day CPA
Zero Day CPA is a Michigan-based boutique accounting firm focused on SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits, with HIPAA mapping, for B2B SaaS and cloud-nati…
$7K–$10K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
2–6 wk
Thoropass
Thoropass pairs an auditor-led assurance practice with compliance technology. The SOC 2 report is issued by its licensed CPA entity, Laika C…
From $9,995 (firm-published price)
2–6 wk
Prescient Assurance
Prescient Assurance, founded in 2021, positions itself as the security-testing-led SOC 2 auditor for SaaS companies, pairing audit teams wit…
Not published — request a scoped quote
Varies — confirm in proposal
MJD Advisors
MJD Advisors is a CPA firm concentrated on SOC reporting rather than tax or general financial-statement audit work. Its narrow service model…
$15K–$35K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
2–6 wk
Johanson Group, LLP
Johanson Group, LLP is a licensed CPA firm dedicated to security and compliance audits. It publishes detailed public guidance on the SOC 2 p…
Not published — request a scoped quote
Varies — confirm in proposal
Sensiba
Sensiba is a top-75 U.S. accounting and consulting firm that expanded its cybersecurity audit practice by acquiring AssuranceLab in 2025. It…
Not published — request a scoped quote
Varies — confirm in proposal
KirkpatrickPrice
KirkpatrickPrice is a Nashville-based assurance specialist with a long-running SOC practice supporting SaaS, managed services, fintech, and …
$12K–$45K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
3–8 wk
360 Advanced
360 Advanced, founded in 2004, delivers integrated audit, advisory, and testing services across SOC, ISO, HITRUST, PCI, and FedRAMP framewor…
$15K–$80K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
3–12 wk
BARR Advisory
BARR Advisory specializes in cybersecurity consulting and compliance for companies with high-value data in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, G…
$15K–$50K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
8–16 wk
Armanino
Armanino is a national CPA and consulting firm with a broad assurance practice covering SOC, ISO certification, healthcare, and payment-fram…
$15K–$40K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
3–12 wk
Aprio
Aprio is a national CPA and advisory firm with an assurance practice spanning SOC, ISO, HITRUST, PCI, CMMC, and FedRAMP. Its breadth suits m…
$22K–$75K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
4–10 wk
Withum
Withum is a national advisory, tax, and accounting firm founded in 1974, with more than 3,500 professionals. Its dedicated SOC services team…
Not published — request a scoped quote
Varies — confirm in proposal
A-LIGN
A-LIGN describes itself as the number-one issuer of SOC 2 reports, trusted by more than 6,400 organizations. It pairs audit services with it…
$15K–$50K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
3–12 wk
BDO
BDO is one of the largest U.S. accounting firms, with a risk advisory practice performing SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 examinations alongside int…
Not published — request a scoped quote
Varies — confirm in proposal
RSM
RSM is a national professional-services firm focused on the middle market. Its risk consulting practice performs SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 rea…
Not published — request a scoped quote
Varies — confirm in proposal
Grant Thornton
Grant Thornton describes itself as one of the leading SOC report issuers nationwide, with a dedicated Strategic Assurance & SOC Services pra…
Not published — request a scoped quote
Varies — confirm in proposal
Schellman
Schellman is a top-50 CPA firm focused on IT audit and compliance. It states that it is 100% independent with no consulting agenda, does not…
$20K–$100K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
3–12 wk
Coalfire
Coalfire is a cybersecurity assessment firm serving enterprises with SOC, FedRAMP, PCI, and HITRUST work. Its assessment-led model suits lar…
$40K–$120K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
4–12 wk
Deloitte
Deloitte is one of the Big Four global professional-services networks. Buyers choose it when a customer contract, board, investor, or multi-…
$60K–$400K (published planning range (Sept 2026))
6–18 wk
SOC 2, explained honestly.
SOC 2 Cost Guide
Published audit-fee ranges, what drives price, and an interactive estimator.
SOC 2 Timeline
How long each phase takes, from readiness to a signed Type 2 report.
Readiness Check
A 2-minute scored quiz that tells you if you're audit-ready.
2026 Pricing Report
A meta-analysis of published SOC 2 cost data, every number cited.
Choosing an Auditor
Nine questions to ask before you sign an engagement letter.
Type 1 vs Type 2
Which report your customers actually need — and when.
Best Auditors by Use Case
Buyer-matched picks: startups, SaaS scaleups, healthcare, enterprise.
RFP & Quote Comparison
What to put in your brief, a printable comparison worksheet, and engagement-letter red flags.
Our Methodology
How we vet firms, label every price, and keep rankings unbought.
AI visibility & SOC 2 basics.
What is AEO (answer engine optimization)?
AEO is the work of getting AI assistants — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude — to name and cite your company when buyers ask them for recommendations. The engines build their answers from search indexes, directories, reviews, and citable content, then synthesize a short list. AEO makes sure your firm's facts are present, consistent, and citable in the sources those engines trust.
Do you work with companies outside SOC 2 and compliance?
No — and that's the point. We are a marketing agency for one industry only: SOC 2 and compliance. Wherever you sit in the compliance stack — licensed audit firm, readiness or GRC platform, penetration testing, vCISO, HIPAA, PCI DSS, CMMC, or ISO 27001 consulting — that's our whole world. We don't take clients anywhere else, so every playbook, prompt set, and citation source we build is specific to how compliance buyers actually buy.
Which AI engines do you work on?
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude — the assistants compliance buyers actually ask — plus Google's AI answers through classic SEO. We track the buyer prompts in your category on each engine and report who gets recommended.
What does the free AI visibility audit show?
The real answers. We run the buyer prompts for your category — questions like "best SOC 2 auditor for a startup" — across the major AI engines and show you which firms get recommended, which pages get cited, where your firm appears or is missing, and the top gaps to fix. No charge and no obligation.
How long before AI engines recommend us?
It depends on how often the engines recrawl your market and how thin your current presence is. Early movement usually shows within weeks as fixes and citations land; a durable share of recommendations is built over months. We report monthly against your buyer prompts so you can watch it move — and we never guarantee a ranking or a recommendation.
Who can issue a SOC 2 report?
Only a licensed CPA firm can issue a SOC 2 report under AICPA attestation standards. Compliance software can prepare you, but it cannot sign the report. The firms in our auditor directory are licensed firms.
How much does a SOC 2 Type 2 audit cost?
Published ranges put the audit fee between $7,000 and $100,000 depending on company size and scope, with first-year all-in costs of $30,000 to $150,000 in published 2026 sources. See our cost guide for sourced numbers.
See what ChatGPT says about your firm.
Ask us for the free audit. We'll run your category's buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude and send you the real answers — who gets recommended, who gets cited, and what it would take for that to be you.
SOC 2 & compliance only — that's the whole point