We started API4SOC2 in 2026 because Indian SaaS, BFSI, and fintech founders kept paying first-world subscription rates for compliance tooling that treated DPDP, SEBI CSCRF, RBI Master Directions, and CERT-In as afterthoughts — and shipped their evidence to S3 buckets they couldn't legally inspect.
This is a 2026-founded firm. We have not yet attested under SOC 2 ourselves; we are not a CERT-In empanelled auditor; our customer base is in the design-partner cohort. We publish all of this transparently because the compliance industry has too much aspirational marketing, and our buyers are smarter than that.
We are a static-site marketing surface today, with the platform engineering happening in parallel. Our first design partners join the cohort through Q2–Q3 2026; general availability follows.
BuildingWe do not perform audit fieldwork or sign attestation reports. For the fieldwork required by SOC 2, ISO 27001, RBI, SEBI, and CERT-In, we partner with CERT-In empanelled audit firms in our network.
Partner-ledSprinto, Vanta, Drata, and Scrut do not ship DPDP / SEBI CSCRF / RBI / CERT-In as native frameworks. We do — because every Indian regulated entity needs them and the global platforms treat them as "custom framework" upsells.
Locked-in moatAWS Mumbai (ap-south-1) plus our on-prem evidence vault in Bengaluru. We sign a data-residency clause into every customer agreement. No cross-border evidence flows. Designed for buyers selling to Indian BFSI and government.
Day-1 commitmentThe compliance market in India looks like the cloud market did in 2014: dominated by foreign platforms priced in dollars, with Indian regulator support added as a checkbox in roadmap slides. Sprinto and Scrut have done well chasing the SOC 2 / ISO 27001 segment for Indian SaaS exporters, but the deeper gap — the actually-Indian regulated stack of DPDP, SEBI CSCRF, RBI Master Directions, CERT-In Direction 20(3)/2022 — sits underserved.
We watched founders run three parallel programmes: Vanta for SOC 2 evidence, an Excel sheet for DPDP data inventory, a Word document for the SEBI CSCRF six-domain mapping, a separate Slack channel for CERT-In incident reporting. Four tools, three spreadsheets, no continuity. The auditor finds drift across all of them every cycle. That gap is what we built API4SOC2 to close — a single platform with India regulators as first-class frameworks, not afterthoughts.
Evidence belongs in Bharat. Compliance evidence is some of the most sensitive material a company holds. Routing it through US-region cloud or US-licensed CPA platforms creates regulatory and jurisdictional friction Indian buyers rightly avoid. We architected for AWS Mumbai + Bengaluru on-prem from day one, and we sign a data-residency clause into every customer agreement.
Pricing should be in rupees. Foreign platforms quote in dollars and pass FX volatility to your renewal cycle. We price every tier in INR, lock the rate for 12 months, and renew transparently. No quarterly surprise invoices.
Auditors are partners, not competitors. We do not compete with the CERT-In empanelled audit firms doing the actual fieldwork. We partner with them: the platform produces evidence, the auditor examines it, the customer gets one accountable lead per engagement. The auditor partner directory lists firms in our network.
India regulators are first-class. DPDP Section 33 penalties, SEBI CSCRF six domains, RBI Master Direction outsourcing controls, CERT-In Direction 20(3)/2022 six-hour reporting — all built into the platform as native frameworks with their own evidence collection, their own gap detection, and their own audit-ready reporting. Not "custom framework" upsells.
We are a small founding team based in HSR Layout, Bengaluru. We are not publishing names, photos, or team pages on this marketing site until we have a clean roster of customer-facing engineers and founders we can put behind real accountability. Our memory rule on this site is: do not publish aspirational credentials, logos, or team bios that we cannot stand behind today.
We will add named team profiles once the founding cohort is finalised. Most marketing sites publish stock photos and aspirational bios from day one. We chose not to. If this transparency matters to your buying decision, it should — it is an honest signal of how we will run the platform.
Through Q2–Q3 2026 we are onboarding ten design-partner customers free for six months in exchange for unfiltered product feedback and case-study rights at GA. After GA, pricing tiers are published in INR and locked for 12 months at signup. The platform roadmap targets DPDP / SEBI CSCRF / RBI / CERT-In framework parity with SOC 2 / ISO 27001, then expands to PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and IRDAI through 2027.
If your team is shopping a compliance platform in 2026 and any of the four India regulators are part of your obligation set, we want to talk. Join the waitlist or apply for the design-partner cohort.
India regulators as first-class frameworks. Bharat-resident evidence. Pricing locked in INR for the first 12 months. We are onboarding ten design partners through Q2-Q3 2026 ahead of general availability.