In the fast-paced tech industry, achieving compliance isn’t just a checkbox exercise—it’s the foundation for scaling globally. For premium technology companies in Australia, their success comes from combining the best of modern compliance technology, with a responsive human touch. At AssuranceLab, we’ve been a trusted partner to leading companies like Culture Amp, Go1, Octopus Deploy and Rokt, to empower their journey toward compliance success, fueling growth, without compromising their operations.
The challenge with legacy audits
When people hear ‘audits’ they often think of slow, manual, labor-intensive processes that often feels like you’re airing out dirty laundry. These audits often bring rigid processes, outdated methodologies, and a lack of flexibility when it comes to adapting to modern technologies. Tech companies can be frustrated by these legacy audit models that simply don’t fit their fast-moving, innovative and empowered cultures.
Take Culture Amp, for example. Before working with us, they had experienced the challenges of working with larger firms that still use traditional audit methods. Despite their efforts, they struggled to achieve the compliance outcomes they needed. The rigid approach left Culture Amp struggling to meet the requirements, while maintaining their desired culture and ways of working. After working with AssuranceLab to develop controls and a process that suited their ways of working, it made all the difference for Culture Amp who achieved their SOC 2 and GDPR audits seamlessly.
The AssuranceLab difference: A modern, flexible approach
Our approach to compliance is built around modern technology, flexibility, responsiveness and human expertise. We ensure our clients don’t just meet compliance standards, but do so in a way that makes sense for them.
The human support makes all the difference to our premium clients working towards compliance. Being in the same timezone, with a flexible mindset and wealth of experience working with modern technology, our audit team is naturally seen as trusted advisors to our clients working through the compliance requirements. Although we maintain strict independence to avoid designing or implementing the controls for our clients, our ability to guide them from our experience working with over 500 modern technology companies, helps them problem-solve things in the context of their business. Giving them confidence in the audit process and compliance outcomes.
“As an innovative audit firm, we’ve worked on building tools and platforms to support clients with their audits and compliance. But when it comes down to it; our client reviews, case studies and NPS feedback, regularly cite the AssuranceLab team as the difference in why they love working with us. We invest heavily in our people, while other firms are offshoring, because we know it’s what our clients value.” - Paul Wenham, Cofounder and Co-CEO at AssuranceLab
For tech innovators like Go1, Rokt and Culture Amp - auditors adapting to their way of compliance makes all the difference. They each use different platforms to manage their compliance, with unique control sets, all undergoing different compliance frameworks with AssuranceLab; ranging across SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and ISO 42001 (AI). Managing these together with flexibility in their chosen platform means they avoid duplication or disruption. Allowing them to meet their respective customers compliance needs.
"Working through the project at our own pace was very beneficial. At Rokt, we are a fast moving and efficient team, so moving quickly through all deliverables was always going to be desirable. This approach allowed for flexibility in allocating our team resources as they were available to maximise efficiencies.” - Guido Santo, VP of CyberSecurity at Rokt.
We’ve worked with them for years, delivering audits that not only meet the global standards but also fit seamlessly into their workflows. It’s this partnership mindset that allows us to strike the perfect balance between thorough compliance reviews and supporting our clients’ fast-paced innovation. Experience the difference!