How Narad, a GRC platform, chose ComplyJet for its own SOC 2 attestation

When a company that helps others with security compliance needs to get attested itself, the bar is higher. They know exactly what good looks like.

Narad is an AI-powered platform that automates security questionnaire responses, vendor risk assessments, and RFP submissions for enterprises. Their customers are in financial services, fintech, and SaaS, industries where security posture isn't just a checkbox but a dealbreaker.

For Narad, SOC 2 attestation wasn't about checking a box either. It was about practicing what they preach. If you're helping companies manage their security documentation, your own house needs to be in order.

Manoj Adwani, Narad's founder, partnered with ComplyJet to get it done.

Why It Matters More for a GRC Company

Most startups pursue SOC 2 because a customer or prospect asked for it. Narad's situation was different. As a platform that processes company security policies and helps enterprises respond to vendor assessments, their credibility depends on their own security posture.

Every prospect evaluating Narad would naturally ask: "If you help companies with compliance, are you compliant yourself?"

SOC 2 attestation was the answer to that question.

The Challenge

Narad runs lean. The core team is small, with development work handled through trusted engineering partners. That meant compliance tasks needed to be distributed across the founding team and external contractors without creating confusion about who owns what.

The other consideration: Narad doesn't handle much personal data. The platform processes company policies and professional email addresses. That simplified some aspects of SOC 2 (privacy risk assessments, for example, were minimal) but the team still needed to build a complete compliance program from scratch.

Getting Started

Narad onboarded with ComplyJet at the end of December 2025. What followed was one of the fastest paths to readiness ComplyJet has seen.

Manoj took the lead, working through tasks at a pace that reflected someone who genuinely understands compliance. Within days, the team had:

• Connected integrations and configured the platform
• Generated security policies using ComplyJet's AI-powered policy wizard
• Submitted policies for approval to Vijay, Narad's co-founder
• Completed employee security awareness training across the team
• Worked through agreements, clarifying which applied to their contractor setup and which could be skipped
• Addressed risk assessments, scoping out privacy risks that didn't apply to their data model

The questions Manoj asked were precise: Does a contractor agreement need to be signed by every individual or just the company head? Can policies be revised after submission? What's needed for privacy risk assessments when you don't handle PII?

Each question was answered on Slack, usually within minutes.

97% Ready in Weeks

By January 23, just three weeks after onboarding, Manoj messaged the team: "We are almost done with all the tasks. Let's schedule the review with the external auditor next week."

By January 27, Narad's ComplyJet dashboard showed 97% SOC 2 readiness. Manoj shared the screenshot and requested the audit engagement letter.

That's the kind of timeline that's possible when the team understands compliance, the platform does the heavy lifting, and support is responsive enough to keep momentum going.

The Collaboration Model

What made Narad's setup work was how cleanly responsibilities were divided:

• Manoj drove the day-to-day compliance work: policies, training, risk assessments, agreements
• Vijay handled policy approvals and co-founder level sign-offs
• Engineering partners joined the SOC 2 readiness sync calls to cover technical infrastructure tasks
• ComplyJet provided the platform, policy wizard, training content, audit coordination, and real-time Slack support

No compliance hire. No external consultant. Just a focused founder, a good platform, and a support team that showed up.

Why This Matters

There's something uniquely validating about a GRC company choosing your platform for their own compliance. Narad knows this space. They evaluate security tools, they help enterprises with vendor assessments, and they understand what a strong compliance program looks like.

They chose ComplyJet.

For any startup evaluating compliance platforms, that signal matters. If the people who do this for a living trust ComplyJet with their own SOC 2, it's a strong endorsement of the platform, the process, and the team behind it.

Looking Ahead

Narad is positioned to complete their SOC 2 audit and use the attestation to strengthen their own sales conversations. When an enterprise prospect asks Narad about their security posture, the answer will be a SOC 2 report, not a slide deck.

For a company that helps others prove their security readiness, there's no better proof than having done it themselves.