SOC 2 Type II in 90 Days: Our Compliance Playbook
How we got to SOC 2 Type II from zero in 90 days — and how our customers do the same with continuous evidence collection.
When we started LumixSys, our investors gave us nine months to land a Type II audit. We did it in 93 days. Here's the playbook — and how we now ship it to our customers.
Day 0–14: Scope ruthlessly
Pick the Trust Service Criteria that match your customers. We started with Security, Availability, and Confidentiality. Adding Processing Integrity and Privacy at this stage doubles the work for almost no commercial value.
Day 15–30: Wire up continuous evidence
Most teams collect evidence manually and panic two weeks before the audit. The audit is not the moment to start. Every control needs a signed, timestamped, immutable evidence stream from day one. SpectraShield does this automatically for 117 SOC 2 controls; if you don't use SpectraShield (yet), build a one-evidence-per-control source-of-truth in whatever you have.
Day 31–60: Live the controls
A control isn't real until your engineers can describe it without reading from a page. We do weekly drills where a randomly-chosen control is exercised end-to-end. By week eight the team can run any control unrehearsed.
Day 61–80: Pick the right auditor
Three auditors will give you three different reads of the same evidence. Pick one with a security-software portfolio and a partner you trust personally. Don't pick on price.
Day 81–93: The audit itself
If your evidence streams are continuous and signed, the audit is read-only access to a dashboard. The audit window we operate in is now zero minutes — auditors fetch what they need at any time.