Assent Risk Management

Is Assent Risk Management Right for You?

• You need an affordable first SOC 2 audit (starting from $16K)
• You're on a tight deadline — they can start and deliver in as few as 3 months
• You're in healthcare and need HIPAA-aware auditors
• You're in financial services with regulatory audit requirements
• You're a SaaS company going through SOC 2 for the first time
• You want a firm that focuses primarily on SOC 2 and compliance audits

Questions to Ask Assent Risk Management Before Hiring

A buyer-side checklist. Bring these to your first call — the answers separate firms that have run hundreds of SOC 2 engagements from firms that are bidding on them.

1. Your team is sized at 25-38+. How many auditors will be assigned to my engagement, and who is the engagement lead — a partner, a senior manager, or a staff auditor?
2. You quote 3–9 months. What pushes a project to the longer end of that range, and what does "audit-ready on day one" look like to you?
3. Your Type II range is $16K–$40K. What's included at each end, and what scope changes would push pricing above the top of that range?
4. We've talked to similar firms in the specialist tier. What's a question buyers like us should be asking that they usually don't?
5. Who reviews and signs the report on your side — is that a partner-level CPA, and how involved are they during fieldwork versus only at sign-off?
6. How do you handle subservice carve-outs (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) versus inclusive subservice organizations when defining our scope?
7. When you find an issue mid-audit, what's your remediation cadence — same-day flagging, weekly checkpoints, or an end-of-fieldwork rollup?
8. Do you have surge windows (e.g., Q4 financial-year close) when start dates slip, and how far in advance do we need to lock the engagement to avoid them?