Software leaves you alone with the checklist. Consultancies leave you a bill.
There are three ordinary ways to get certified, and each of them breaks in a specific place. Here is where, and what we do differently.
Other platforms leave you alone with the checklist. Ours comes with a consultant.
There have been two ways to get compliant: buy software and do everything yourself, or buy a consultancy and pay by the hour. Onwyn joins the two halves — a platform you run yourself, with senior help one click away.
Software-only platforms
Self-serve, no one to call
- Integrations and dashboards — but when a requirement is unclear or the auditor pushes back, you're on your own
- Template controls; the judgment calls and the policy writing stay with your team
- Expert help means a separate consultancy contract on top of the platform fee
- Mostly US-hosted; EU data residency is the exception, not the rule
Traditional consultancy
Human-only delivery
- Senior expertise on the pitch — often junior delivery on the partner's rate card
- Hourly meters and change orders; scope drifts upward as you go
- Months of elapsed time between workshops; documents go stale on delivery
- Status lives in email threads and spreadsheet versions
Platform + consultant, together
The third way
- Self-serve Compliance Engine from €149/month — guided requirements, live in under a day
- A senior consultant one click away on any requirement — review, call, or done-for-you
- Consultant-led engagements at one fixed fee — never an hourly meter
- Your auditor works in the same portal, so fieldwork shrinks
- EU data residency, EU-routable AI, full AI opt-out included
What clients say
Audit-ready in 10 weeksWe went from a blank page to ISO 27001 audit-ready in ten weeks. The AI drafted our whole policy set in the first fortnight, our consultant tuned it to how we actually work — and my team always knew which evidence was due that week.
Fieldwork cut to 6 daysOur SOC 2 Type II fieldwork took six days instead of the three weeks we budgeted. The auditor pulled evidence from the portal instead of emailing us for it.
2 enterprise deals unblockedTwo enterprise deals were stuck on security review. Onwyn ran HIPAA and ISO 27001 in parallel — the AI crosswalk mapped one evidence base onto both — and both deals closed the following quarter.