Solutions
Startups and SaaS
Get through your first enterprise security review without pausing the product roadmap.
What this solution solves
For an early-stage SaaS company, compliance usually arrives as a blocker: a prospect asks for a SOC 2 report and the deal stalls. The problem is rarely that the company is insecure. It is that nothing is written down in a form anyone outside the team can verify.
Compliance appears mid-deal
The first serious questionnaire lands when a contract is already in motion, with no programme in place to answer it.
No dedicated compliance owner
The work falls to an engineering lead or founder who already has a full role.
Practices exist but are undocumented
Access is controlled and changes are reviewed, but none of it is evidenced.
Fear of committing to the wrong framework
Choosing SOC 2 or ISO/IEC 27001 too early can waste months of effort.
How NOVA helps
A small team benefits most from clear approval boundaries. NOVA drafts; a named person approves. NOVA supports the readiness decision. Final launch and risk decisions remain human decisions.
- Single-framework activation with narrow, defensible scope
- Control ownership that fits a small team
- GitHub evidence connector for engineering artefacts
- Trust Centre publication to shorten questionnaire cycles
Workflow
A practical path
Pick one framework
Activate the framework your buyers actually ask for, and record the scope narrowly and honestly.
Write down what you already do
Turn existing practice into described controls with named owners before adding anything new.
Collect evidence as you work
Capture access reviews, change approvals and incident records as they happen rather than reconstructing them later.
Report the gap
Use readiness reporting to decide when to engage an assessor, instead of guessing.
Implementation
What the rollout looks like
Weeks 1–2
Activate the framework, agree scope and assign control ownership.
Weeks 3–6
Describe controls, upload existing evidence and close obvious gaps.
Ongoing
Maintain evidence freshness and use readiness reporting to time the assessment.
NOVA supports the readiness decision. Final launch and risk decisions remain human decisions.
Capabilities
Capabilities that matter most
Framework management
Activate the frameworks your organisation works towards, record scope, and map requirements once instead of maintaining parallel programmes.
Read moreEvidence management
Collect evidence into governed storage, map it to the controls it supports, and have a person validate it before it counts.
Read moreTrust Centre
Publish approved assurance information to customers and prospects without exposing the underlying confidential evidence.
Read moreNext steps
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NOVA supports the readiness decision. Final launch and risk decisions remain human decisions.