Regulatory compliance

Compliance failures are rarely defiance. They are almost always an obligation nobody knew applied, in a jurisdiction nobody was watching, discovered by someone external.

This structures the work and names what to ask. Which regulations apply, and what they require, are legal determinations that vary by jurisdiction and change — they belong with qualified counsel. Nothing here substitutes for that.

Start with an obligation map, not a framework

The first question is not "are we SOC 2 compliant" but "what are we actually obliged to do, by whom, and what happens if we do not." Build the map from facts about the business: