Room setup
Scoped, read-only auditor access to exactly the evidence in scope, with access logged.
Warden · Continuous Compliance
Audit cost is mostly the cost of interrupting the people who build things
Warden runs the auditor-facing side of your audit: a read-only evidence room, managed sample requests, and a single channel between the audit team and your organization.
The expensive part of an audit is coordination
Fieldwork itself is finite. What consumes the quarter is requests arriving by email to whoever the auditor met, chased individually, answered inconsistently and then asked again.
- Requests fan out uncontrolledWithout one channel, the same question reaches three engineers and gets three different answers.
- Ad hoc sharing overexposesEvidence emailed as attachments leaves the boundary and cannot be withdrawn.
- Nobody tracks the stateHalfway through fieldwork it is unclear what is outstanding and what is blocked on whom.
How the engagement runs
Request intake
One channel, tracked, with an owner and a due date per request.
Response drafting
Warden drafts from existing evidence and only escalates to your team when the answer genuinely requires them.
Close-out
A complete record of what was asked, what was provided and when, retained for the next audit.
What you hold at the end
- A read-only auditor room with per-artifact access logging
- A tracked request register with owners, status and dates
- Drafted responses grounded in evidence already held
- A close-out pack that becomes the starting point for the next cycle
- A measured record of engineering hours consumed, so the next audit can be planned
What it runs on
Give the auditor a room, not your engineers
The audit still happens. It just stops being the thing your platform team did that quarter.