Startup Trust Pack — SOC 2 Core + AI Governance

Overview

The Startup Trust Pack is a 25-document bundle built for SaaS and tech startups that sell into the enterprise. It joins two policy sets in one purchase. The first is the SOC 2 Core set, which runs from your security policy through access control, incident response, and business continuity. The second is the full AI Governance pack, which covers how your company adopts, approves, and oversees AI tools. You get editable Microsoft Word policies plus Excel workbooks. Everything downloads instantly under a single-organization license.

If your prospects now ask about your security posture and your AI practices in the same review, this pack answers both. It is one purchase instead of two, sized for a team that does not yet have a dedicated compliance hire.

Most founders buy this the week a deal stalls on a security questionnaire. A prospect's procurement or vendor-risk team sends a long spreadsheet of questions. They want to see your access controls, your incident response plan, and your vendor due diligence in writing. Increasingly, the same questionnaire now asks how you govern AI. Reviewers want to know which AI tools you use, what data those tools touch, and who stays accountable for the output. Without documented policies, you have nothing to attach and the deal slows down. This pack gives you honest, written answers to the documentation questions on both fronts. That keeps a promising deal from dying inside procurement.

On the SOC 2 side, the documents map to the AICPA Trust Services Criteria. You get the Information Security Policy, the Access Control Policy, and the Encryption and Key Management Policy. You also get the Vulnerability Management Procedure, the Monitoring and Logging Policy, the Security Incident Response Plan, and the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plan, among others. The SOC 2 TSC Control Mapping workbook lines your controls up against all 38 criteria. On the AI side, the set aligns to the EU AI Act and the NIST AI RMF.

It includes the AI Governance Policy, the AI Risk Assessment Procedure, and the AI Vendor and Tool Assessment Procedure. It also includes the EU AI Act Readiness Checklist and the AI System Inventory and Classification Standard. A shared Risk Register and an Audit Evidence Checklist tie the whole program together and give you a single place to track gaps.

Drafting these documents from scratch takes weeks of senior time you do not have. These policies are already drafted by compliance professionals and structured to fit together. The SOC 2 set and the AI set share one consistent voice. So you tailor instead of compose. Drop in your company name, name your owners, and set your review frequencies. Adjust anything specific to your stack, your cloud provider, or the AI tools you actually run. Bracketed placeholders show you exactly what to decide at each step. You move from a blank page to a coherent, defensible policy set in days rather than months. That speed matters when a buyer is waiting on your answers.

Be clear about what this pack does and does not do. It is the readiness layer, not the finish line. A SOC 2 report is an independent attestation. Only a licensed CPA firm can issue one, after examining the controls you actually operate. A Type I report covers a single point in time, and a Type II report covers a period of months. AI Governance carries no certificate at all. You earn that alignment by running the program your policies describe. These documents do not make you certified, attested, or compliant.

Documentation is only the first layer. You still have to operate the controls every day, and you still have to prove they work. This pack puts your program in writing so you can implement it, run it, and stand behind it when the auditor and the enterprise buyer arrive.