Delve, a startup that claims to be able to help you get SOC2 compliance in days

Was not surprisingly revealed to have made it all up.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-191342187

Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I

How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out

The only thing that offends me more than scammers are sloppy scammers. At least take some pride in your work and in your calling.

There’s a bunch of other compliance startups in this space worth billions of dollars. They’re all claiming to be AI-native but they’re forms stitched together (and not even doing anything remotely interesting or useful).

If you understand the tech you know that we are years away from a single AI, no matter what you say you’re doing with it, from being reliably able to perform this specific list of tasks in this order

The founders have also been on social media praising their devs for pulling all nighters

Now that this is out, I hope everyone is very proud of themselves

@skinnylatte

I've been through compliance at a mega corp and as far as I can tell someone gets appointed to be the muggins who sits in a conference room while people who are paid to tick boxes tick boxes.

Perhaps this perception came from that company already having fairly strict internal rules, perhaps from a sock puppet auditor, I don't know.

I totally understand why someone who had only ever seen the process from the next room would think this is prime sinecure territory, it certainly seemed like an expensive no-op from my desk.