Platform / Compliance Workflow
A compliance workflow platform purpose-built for consulting firms guiding startups through international standards certification — ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, and adjacent frameworks.
The Market Gap
CORVUS is a ground-up replacement for legacy GRC products whose assumptions were shaped by investment banking regulation. The target market is entirely different: small consulting firms who act as the de facto compliance function for early- and growth-stage technology companies pursuing international standards certification.
These clients are not banks. Their consultants do not work inside a single organisation — they manage multiple client engagements simultaneously, often across ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR technical readiness work in parallel.
Existing products cannot serve this market well. Their data models were designed for single-organisation internal compliance teams. Their workflow assumptions reflect regulated financial institutions. Their reporting outputs were designed for internal audit committees, not external certification bodies or board-level management summaries.
CORVUS addresses an underserved and growing segment of the GRC market — consulting-led startup compliance — with a product that is architecturally correct for the way that work is actually done.
The platform targets the intersection of two growing trends: rapid growth in startups pursuing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification as a commercial prerequisite, and the emergence of specialist consulting firms that serve these companies as their outsourced compliance function.
Core Workflow
Each client engagement has its own scoped workspace. Consultants see only assigned clients. Framework baseline, milestones, team assignments, and outputs are managed per engagement.
Select the framework release (e.g. ISO 27001:2022) that applies to the engagement. This baseline is pinned — it does not change silently when a new framework version is imported.
CORVUS compares the client's current control implementation state against every requirement in the selected framework baseline. Gaps are surfaced with severity, effort, and owner classification.
Using the Secure Controls Framework (SCF) crosswalk, CORVUS maps work done for one framework to equivalent controls in others. Show clients how their ISO 27001 work addresses SOC 2 requirements.
Structured, publication-ready reports: readiness reports, gap analysis exports, evidence packs, management summaries, and auditor-ready packs. Reports go through consultant approval before client visibility.
A clean, at-a-glance view of engagement progress. Readiness by domain, open tasks, and upcoming milestones. Designed to be shown in a management meeting without explanation.
Clients upload evidence items directly into CORVUS against specific controls or requirements. File integrity is recorded at upload time. Consultants review and accept or reject evidence items within the platform.
Controlled documents (policies, procedures) that require client sign-off are presented for acknowledgement. Acknowledgement is recorded with acting user, timestamp, and document version.
CAPA tasks and assessment responses that are owned by client staff are visible and actionable. Clients complete their tasks without needing access to the consultant workspace.
Readiness reports and management summaries approved by the consultant are made available in the client portal for download. Clients see only what the consultant has explicitly published.
Platform Capabilities
Manage multiple client engagements from a single login with strict data isolation. Junior consultants scoped to specific engagements, senior principals hold approval authority firm-wide. This is the default operating model, not custom configuration.
Work done against ISO 27001 controls is automatically mapped to equivalent SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2, and DORA controls using the Secure Controls Framework (SCF). Show clients cross-framework coverage from day one of a new engagement.
File integrity checksums recorded at upload time. Document versions are immutable. Every approval, workflow transition, and publication event writes an immutable audit event with denormalised actor identity.
Distinguish between live preview (always available, computed dynamically) and published snapshots (persisted, formally approved, tied to the engagement baseline, and client-visible only when explicitly published).
When new framework versions are imported, live client engagements are not automatically migrated. Existing baselines remain in place until the consultant makes a deliberate decision to adopt the new version.
Non-conformances, findings, and gaps are managed as cases. Cases generate Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) records with tasks, owners, deadlines, and effectiveness verification. Full lifecycle is traceable and append-only.
Key Differentiators
Every major GRC platform on the market assumes the user is an internal compliance function operating within a single organisation. CORVUS is designed from the data model upward for the consulting delivery model. A consultant's operating context — their membership of a consultancy party, their scope across specific clients and engagements, their approval authorities — is the core security and permission model, not an afterthought. A consultant can manage eight client engagements from a single login, with strict data isolation between clients.
The most significant commercial pressure facing compliance consulting firms is clients asking for multi-framework coverage without multi-framework budgets. CORVUS imports the Secure Controls Framework (SCF) and its crosswalk mappings between frameworks. Work done against ISO 27001 controls is automatically mapped to equivalent SOC 2, GDPR, NIS2, and DORA controls. Consultants can show clients a cross-framework coverage summary from day one of a new framework engagement.
The credibility of a compliance programme rests on the integrity of its evidence. CORVUS implements this at the data model level. File integrity checksums are recorded at upload time. Document versions are immutable — superseding a document creates a new version, not an edit. Every approval, every workflow transition, every publication event writes an immutable audit event with the acting user's identity denormalised at write time.
Most GRC tools offer a readiness dashboard. Dashboards are useful for working views but are not formal deliverables. CORVUS's readiness model distinguishes between live preview — always available, computed dynamically, used for working consultations — and published snapshots — persisted, formally approved, tied to the engagement baseline, and client-visible only when the consultant explicitly publishes them. The published snapshot is the deliverable.
When a new framework version is imported into CORVUS, live client engagements are not automatically migrated. The existing baseline remains in place until the consultant makes a deliberate decision to adopt the new version for a specific engagement. The consultant can compare the new release to the current engagement baseline, see what has changed, and make an informed decision about adoption timing.
Market Opportunity
The global GRC software market is large and mature, but it is dominated by products designed for large enterprises, internal compliance teams, and regulated sectors. These products are expensive, complex to implement, and require dedicated compliance staff to operate.
The segment we are targeting sits at the intersection of two growing trends: the rapid growth in startup technology companies pursuing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certification as a commercial prerequisite, and the emergence of small specialist consulting firms that serve these companies as their outsourced compliance function.
Certification is becoming a commercial prerequisite. Enterprise procurement teams routinely require ISO 27001 or SOC 2 certification from software vendors before contract signature.
The legacy GRC tool market has not kept pace. The dominant tools in the sub-enterprise segment were built for internal compliance teams, not for consulting-led external delivery.
Framework proliferation is creating complexity. Companies that achieve ISO 27001 certification are increasingly asked to also demonstrate SOC 2, GDPR technical readiness, NIS2, or DORA alignment. Consultants who can map and reuse compliance work across frameworks efficiently have a significant competitive advantage.
Competitive Gap
| Capability | Spreadsheet + Drive | Generic GRC SaaS | Enterprise GRC | CORVUS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-client consultancy model | Manual / ad hoc | Single-org only | Single-org only | Native — first class |
| Framework cross-mapping (ISO↔SOC 2↔GDPR) | Manual | None | Partial, expensive | Built in via SCF/STRM |
| Client-facing evidence portal | Shared folder | None / admin clone | Complex / costly | Dedicated clean portal |
| Formal readiness reporting | Manual Word docs | Dashboard only | Complex templates | Structured, publishable |
| Audit-grade evidence integrity | None | Basic metadata | Varies | Checksums + immutable trail |
| Engagement baseline pinning | None | None | Partial | Explicit policy, native |
| CAPA and gap-to-remediation | Spreadsheet | Basic task lists | Complex setup | Integrated workflow |
CORVUS is designed for consulting firms who need a platform that works the way they work — managing multiple clients, across multiple frameworks, with audit-grade rigour.
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