Compliance automation that fetches the audit evidence your systems already have.

The evidence collection and monitoring patterns we use apply across most major frameworks: SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and CCPA. The specific controls differ but the underlying automation, pulling access logs, monitoring configuration state, tracking policy acknowledgments, generating control evidence, is the same pattern applied to different control families. We have the most production depth in SOC 2 Type II (common for SaaS companies) and HIPAA (healthcare and health tech clients). For frameworks with custom control sets, we scope the automation against your specific control requirements during discovery rather than assuming a generic framework map applies.

Evidence collection automation pulls proof of control operation from the systems your controls depend on. For access control evidence: user access logs from your identity provider (Okta, Azure AD, Google Workspace), system access logs from your cloud provider, and privilege escalation logs. For configuration management evidence: infrastructure-as-code state, cloud configuration snapshots using AWS Config or Azure Policy, and security baseline compliance checks. For change management evidence: deployment logs, pull request approvals, and code review records from your source control system. For vendor management evidence: vendor access records and contract metadata. The automation runs on a defined schedule, stores the evidence with metadata (what was collected, when, from which source, for which control), and surfaces gaps where evidence is missing or a control has failed. Your compliance team reviews the populated evidence library rather than assembling it.

Continuous control monitoring watches your control environment in real time and fires alerts when a control fails. Examples: an IAM policy that should have MFA enabled is changed to allow password-only login. A production database that should not be publicly accessible has a security group rule added that exposes it to the internet. A user who was offboarded two weeks ago still has active access to a system they should not. A backup job that runs nightly did not complete last night. Without continuous monitoring, these failures are discovered during audit preparation, weeks or months after they occur. With monitoring, they are caught when they happen and can be remediated before they become findings. Continuous monitoring also produces the monitoring evidence that auditors require, demonstrating that controls are checked on an ongoing basis and not just at audit time.

Neither. Compliance automation tools like Vanta, Drata, and Tugboat Logic are excellent products for standard control frameworks and are the right choice for many organisations. We build custom compliance automation for organisations whose compliance requirements do not fit the standard platform templates: heavily regulated industries with custom control sets, organisations with complex legacy infrastructure the platforms cannot integrate with, or companies that need compliance workflows embedded in their existing internal tools rather than managed through a separate SaaS platform. We also build compliance automation components that sit alongside existing platforms: custom evidence collection for systems the platform does not support, custom risk assessment workflows, and compliance reporting that aggregates across multiple frameworks. If your situation fits a standard platform, we will tell you. We do not build custom systems to replace tools that would serve you better.

Compliance automation projects at RaftLabs are scoped and priced individually based on the number of frameworks, integrations, and workflows required. A focused engagement automating evidence collection for a single framework with 3-5 integrations typically runs 8-14 weeks. More complex builds covering multiple frameworks, custom risk assessment workflows, and a compliance dashboard take 16-20 weeks. Every engagement is fixed-price after a discovery phase that maps your control environment and manual overhead. We provide the cost in writing before development starts.

Yes. We sign NDAs before any discovery conversation involving your control environment or audit data. Compliance automation by definition touches sensitive access logs, configuration data, and audit records. We handle data in transit over TLS, store evidence in encrypted S3 buckets with Object Lock for tamper-proof retention, and scope access controls so only authorised team members can view your compliance data. For HIPAA clients in the US we operate under a Business Associate Agreement.