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SOC 1 Audit Services

The Financial Controls Audit Your Clients Trust

Fintech platforms, payroll processors, and SaaS companies with financial workflows face a specific kind of scrutiny. Your clients’ auditors need a signed SOC 1 report from a licensed CPA firm, not a readiness doc, not a summary.
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What Is a SOC 1 Audit?

A SOC 1 audit examines the controls at your organization that are relevant to your clients’ financial reporting. If your platform or service touches how a client records, processes, or reports financial data, their auditors will require a SOC 1 report before they can issue a clean opinion on their own financials.

This is a formal attestation engagement governed by SSAE 18 standards. It carries weight with enterprise buyers, public companies subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), and the external auditors that those companies rely on.
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SOC 1 Type I

A point-in-time assessment confirming your controls are suitably designed as of a specific date. Good for first-time engagements or situations with a tight deadline.

SOC 1 Type II

A report covering a defined period (typically 6-12 months) that tests both the design and the operating effectiveness of your controls over time. This is what most enterprise clients and their auditors actually require.

Who Needs a SOC 1

Built for Fintech, Payroll, and Financial Workflow Companies

A SOC 1 is required when your operations affect your clients’ internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR). If a deal has stalled because a prospect’s auditors asked for one, this is the report they’re looking for.
  • Fintech and financial infrastructure companies
  • Payroll processors
  • Benefits administrators
  • SaaS companies with financial workflow tools
  • Cloud service providers hosting financial systems

Why Choose Decrypt Compliance

Most audit firms are either too big to care or too junior to help. We sit in the middle, senior-level auditors who treat your engagement like it matters.

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Big 4 Background. Same Team Throughout.

Raymond Cheng and the Decrypt team bring experience from EY, PwC, Deloitte, Google, and Salesforce. You’re not handed off to junior staff after the kickoff call. Clients describe the engagement as working with “a genuine partner” who invests in understanding your product and processes – not an auditor running through a checklist.
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AICPA-Accredited and Peer-Reviewed

Decrypt is an accredited member of the AICPA and received a Pass rating in our 2025 peer review. Your SOC 1 report is signed by a licensed CPA firm that has passed independent scrutiny – not a consulting shop offering readiness prep.
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Founder-Led, Not PE-Owned

We don’t answer to a board or a private equity firm. Your audit doesn’t get deprioritized when a larger client comes in, and your team doesn’t rotate mid-engagement. As one client put it: “Independent, reliable, and ethically sound.”
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Works With Your Existing Stack

We work alongside the GRC platforms you’re already using – Vanta, Drata, and others – so evidence collection doesn’t mean rebuilding from scratch.

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Client Stories

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Ralph Hofacker

Co-Founder Brick Towers AG

Expectation for an expected timeline was given and also adhered to which helped us a lot to manage expectations with our prospects. Decrypt accommodated our additional input to the draft audit report which helped us to stand out.

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Lior Romano

CEO, Tillion.ai

The Decrypt Compliance team truly delivered on their promises. They kept us constantly updated to ensure no surprises, while also making it easy to enable a quality audit. Decrypt’s responsiveness and high standards kept me confident throughout the process.
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Kabir Mathur

CEO, Leen Inc

Becoming SOC2 compliant was very important to us since we’re selling to other security companies. Decypt ran an efficient process to help us become compliant and close new deals.
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Eran R.

CEO · jumbomail.me

Working with Decrypt felt like their team invested in understanding our product and processes — the overall process was like working with a genuine partner.
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Zsolt B.

Mid-Market

Flexible management, wide and professional viewpoint on security. Strongly recommended because of their helping attitude, professional viewpoint, and flexible management.
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Steven F.

Small Business

Passionate leadership with Big 4 background and an understanding of what mid-sized to small SaaS customers need. Highly professional. Delivers on time.
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Alexandre C.

Small Business · France

Decrypt Compliance made our audit smooth and simple. Everything can be done asynchronously or via meeting when needed. We’re a French company and they made it work seamlessly across time zones.

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