Internal audit, between your SOC 2 examinations.
Your business changes every week. Your understanding of its risks should keep up. Skadi runs AI-supported internal assessments on your own evidence — so you find gaps before an incident or an examiner does.
A SOC 2 report is a milestone, not a permanent clean bill of health
It covers a defined scope and period. Engineers join, infrastructure changes, vendors are introduced, and AI tools enter everyday workflows. An internal review gives management a way to assess controls between independent examinations — and to ask three questions.
Are our controls actually working?
A policy does not prove access is restricted, and a plan does not prove the team can execute it. We connect each control to real evidence — access lists, termination records, remediation tickets, and activity logs — and show the difference between what you intended and what happened.
What risks are we missing?
The most valuable findings are rarely missing documents. They are conflicting records, excessive permissions, unclear ownership, or a process that has not kept up with the product — including AI data flows and agent permissions.
What should we improve first?
A missing policy acknowledgment and unrestricted production access should not carry equal weight. You get a short, defensible action list: what needs attention, why it matters, who owns it, and how to confirm the change worked.
How an internal review works on Skadi
Bring your evidence
Connect Drata, Vanta, or any GRC platform, or upload read-only exports. No GRC platform? We work with you to collect the evidence directly.
Audit intelligence analyzes it
Evidence is organized and mapped to control requirements. Dates, records, and procedures are compared. Missing, outdated, or contradictory evidence is flagged as possible exceptions.
A reviewer validates the findings
A flag is not a conclusion. A person validates the facts, assesses the significance, and records scope, evidence dates, and limitations — so every finding is easy to challenge and confirm.
Models run on AWS Bedrock, with no training on customer data and no model-provider retention. Skadi's basic retention is 30 days; longer retention only by written agreement.
Internal audit automation — and where people stay in charge
Skadi automates the repetitive audit work so your team spends its time on decisions, not documents.
Automated by audit intelligence
- Collecting and organizing evidence from your GRC platform or uploads
- Mapping each piece of evidence to the control it supports
- Cross-checking dates, records, and procedures across systems
- Flagging missing, outdated, or contradictory evidence
- Tracking owners and follow-ups until each finding is closed
Decided by people
- Whether a flagged item is actually an exception
- How significant a finding is for your business
- What to fix first, and who owns the fix
- Accepting a risk consciously instead of remediating it
No black box: every automated result links back to the evidence it came from, so you can verify it yourself.
Review controls when the business changes
Start with a regular, risk-based cadence, then add focused reviews when something material changes.
Before your first SOC 2 examination
Assess readiness, assign owners, and address gaps before relying on your controls.
After infrastructure changes
Revisit access, configuration, monitoring, and change approval for the affected systems.
After a hiring surge
Check onboarding, role assignment, and access review coverage.
When adding an AI feature or critical vendor
Review data flows, provider terms, agent permissions, and escalation paths.
After an incident
Assess the affected controls and verify that corrective actions operate as intended.
Internal assessments and independent SOC 2 examinations are different things
An internal assessment helps you understand and improve your own controls. It does not issue a SOC 2 report, replace an independent CPA firm's testing, or shorten the period needed to demonstrate operating effectiveness.
SOC 2 Type II examinations are delivered on Skadi by a network of independent CPA audit firms. Skadi supports evidence analysis and the workflow; the independent firm applies professional judgment and takes responsibility for its report.
Find the gap while you can still do something about it
Instead of asking only "Are we ready for the auditor?", ask what you need to improve in your business right now.