Yes, that is who we build our services for. Pre-revenue to around £1m, pre-seed to Series A, SaaS, fintech, healthtech, marketplace, or AI-led. We give proportionate advice scoped to your stage and runway, not an enterprise framework applied at a quarter of the scale.

Yes. Our core focus is digital startups, but the fundamentals, like Secure Foundations, apply just as well to any small business that needs the basics properly in place, whether or not you are raising investment. Some of our services, such as Commercial Readiness, are built around investor and enterprise-procurement scrutiny specifically, and may be less relevant if that is not your situation, but we will tell you honestly which of our services actually fit.

They are not direct equivalents, they work differently. SOC 2 is a US-style attestation report against a set of trust criteria, assessed annually. ISO 27001 is an internationally recognised, certifiable management-system standard. In practice, UK investors and UK enterprise clients typically ask for ISO 27001 rather than SOC 2, so that is usually the more useful one to hold if you are selling or raising in the UK. If you are selling into the US or raising from US investors, SOC 2 may still come up. Commercial Readiness maps out which one actually applies to you before you spend money on either.

Your development team keeping the product running and your business being able to demonstrate, with evidence, that it can be trusted at scale are two different things. Investors, enterprise clients, and regulators ask about the second one. That is usually the gap we get called in to close.

A compliance platform automates evidence collection, it does not tell you what controls you actually need, whether your architecture is sound, or what an investor will find when they look closely. We do not resell these platforms, and we will tell you honestly whether one fits your stage. Advisory and a platform work well together; a platform alone is not the same as being investor-ready.