Two sides of the same audit.
I spent five years at Deloitte leading SOC 2 engagements for big tech across the US and Canada. LinkedIn, Ripple, Affirm, and a long list of other names you’d recognize. Those years taught me what a high quality SOC 2 actually feels like from the inside. The judgment calls that matter. The exceptions a senior catches that a junior would miss. The difference between thorough work and work that just looks thorough.
I haven’t run audits, but I’ve worked inside the companies that get audited, and I’ve seen what every cycle costs them. The lost weeks. The status meetings. The way smart people get stuck on low-value coordination work. Yuanlun knows what good audit looks like from the inside. I know what a bad one costs the business.
Our goal is an audit that barely feels like one.
Chiaro is high quality audit work, invisibly embedded inside the AI tools your team already uses every day. No checklist bloat. No prep platform. No security theater. The work runs quietly in the background while your team keeps shipping. The best audit is one you don’t feel happening. That’s the bar we’re building to.
Here’s where SOC 2 audit is going.
AI is going to unlock a lot more builders. The bar to start a company keeps dropping, and the next generation of founders is shipping enterprise software with teams of two or three. To win real customers, all of them eventually have to prove their company can be trusted with sensitive data. Right now that proof is hard to come by. The cheap auditors rubber-stamp it. The good ones charge what only funded companies can pay. Either way, the builder bleeds time and money they don’t have, and the buyer ends up with a report that doesn’t actually tell them much. We started Chiaro because we think the same AI making all these new companies possible is also what lets us run a real audit at a price builders can afford. Trust shouldn’t sit behind a wall of money. That’s why we’re building this.