I have personal experience working with pimartin. If you're looking for a reference, they really know what they're talking about for SOC 2. They helped me get SOC 2 at the company I co-founded, ProcedureFlow where I'm VP of Engineering.
My main concern was this: we are a growing company and I didn't want to bolt on "some corporate SOC 2 thing" just to make us seem more secure. Honestly, my attitude was similar to the OP.
Sales were getting blocked and delayed by lack of SOC 2 but also having to fill out security questionnaires for every customer. I found pimartin and they really showed us how SOC 2 is customizable and isn't black and white like most people think. SOC 2 is not prescriptive about how you do things. He also helped us find an auditor that understands our business and made the process very easy for us.
When our prospective customers now do their IT/Security reviews, we pass with flying colors because of the changes that have been made to our organization and the big attitude shift we had about it. SOC 2 is not a burden in our company.
Happy to talk more about our experience with pimartin and doing SOC 2 "right"!
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has customers that consider us vital to their business and day-to-day operations. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we're about to close over $10 million in funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process; adding an automation capabilities to static knowledge.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
Here's some recent blog posts about our Engineering team:
• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a team that cares about what we're building.
• Optional 4-day work week (four 10-hour days).
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Vacation: 3 weeks minimum. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• 11 paid holidays
• Professional development budget ~$2K/year (courses, training, events, etc)
• Good benefits plan. ProcedureFlow pays health and dental premiums.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
Here's some recent blog posts about our Engineering team:
• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
Here's some recent blog posts about our Engineering team:
• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
Here's some recent blog posts about our Engineering team:
• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
• Competitive salary
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C# or React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
We offer:
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
ProcedureFlow | Frontend Developer (React), Full Stack .NET Developer | REMOTE in Eastern Canada | Full-Time | https://procedureflow.com
ProcedureFlow is a platform for your company's procedures inspired by the way you work. We're like GitHub but for visual procedures. We have change requests, everyone can have a "draft" branch, a side-by-side diff view of the flows, etc.
ProcedureFlow has great customers that consider us vital to their business. We have ambitious goals and need your help. We've grown 600% in the last 4 years, we've more than doubled our revenue and staff in the last year, and we recently raised $2.9 million in Series A funding.
Top 3 complex problems we're working on solving:
1. GitHub for visual procedures; versioning a knowledge graph.
2. Adding a public API for flows, event data, and critical features like SCIM.
3. Bridging the gap between documentation, execution, maintenance, and insight of a process.
• Experience building cloud-based web apps in C#/React.
• Experience as a generalist working on both the frontend, backend, and anything it takes to solve problems and delight users.
• Pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems.
• The ability to stitch together many different services and processes together even if they have not worked with them before.
• Empathy with their users and are stewards of crafting great experiences.
• Skills for upholding best practices in engineering, security, and design.
We try to make our technical interview process very practical and fair. We want to understand your skills and get a sense of what it's like to work together. For example, we don't use LeetCode, whiteboarding, ask you to recite an algorithms, etc.
ProcedureFlow is not your typical flowchart tool. We took the good parts, like the visual map, and fixed all the bad things:
• The "editing" experience is secondary. Viewing and navigating the flows is the priority.
• We democratize your company's procedures. The flows are meant to be used and improved by everyone at your company.
• We only have so many shapes that can be added. You don't just drag/drop a "rectangle" and make it purple. You add an "action" shape that has semantics.
• We recommend making smaller flows and linking them together rather than one big flowchart understood by a few people.
We offer:
• Autonomous remote work and working with a great team.
• Stock options signing bonus. Topped off based on individual/company performance and each funding round.
• Vacation: 3 weeks to start. We're very flexible with additional time off (errands, family time, appointments, etc).
• RRSP matching up to 4%.
• Good health coverage.
• Good work life balance. We don’t crunch or work regular overtime – deadlines are owned by us. Rare overtime like after hours maintenance means compensated time off.
• An opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a fast growing Canadian startup. You’ll be very key to our success -- helping us grow the team into a well-oiled machine. Being an early employee means you have the possibility to grow into larger roles as the company grows (engineering IC, management, specialization, etc).
My main concern was this: we are a growing company and I didn't want to bolt on "some corporate SOC 2 thing" just to make us seem more secure. Honestly, my attitude was similar to the OP.
Sales were getting blocked and delayed by lack of SOC 2 but also having to fill out security questionnaires for every customer. I found pimartin and they really showed us how SOC 2 is customizable and isn't black and white like most people think. SOC 2 is not prescriptive about how you do things. He also helped us find an auditor that understands our business and made the process very easy for us.
When our prospective customers now do their IT/Security reviews, we pass with flying colors because of the changes that have been made to our organization and the big attitude shift we had about it. SOC 2 is not a burden in our company.
Happy to talk more about our experience with pimartin and doing SOC 2 "right"!