Argos GRC.
18• compliance frameworks with live evidence — assembled from the same platform that is already running your tickets, your assets and your detections. Not a connector reaching into your tools. The tools.
Scope: 18• distinct frameworks mapped once and reused across tenants, counted as distinct names rather than rows. Measured on our own environment.
Compliance as a byproduct of operations,
instead of a second job.
Every control in every framework is ultimately a question about something you already do: who has access, how fast you patch, whether the change was approved, whether the incident got worked. Argos GRC answers those questions from the systems that did the work — because they are the same platform.
18• frameworks, mapped once
SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST CSF and 800-171, CIS Controls, CMMC, NYDFS, SMB1001 and more. A control mapped once is reused across every client that needs it, so your second HIPAA engagement is not a second mapping project.
Assembled, not collected
Ticket and change records from Service. Device and patch state from the estate. Detections and response times from Red. Identity, MFA and access reviews from Identity. Training completions and signed policies from the platform. The evidence is the operational record, dated and hash-chained.
Continuous, and honest about gaps
A live readiness position per framework per client, with the failing controls named rather than averaged away. Drift raises work in the service desk, so a control that quietly stopped being true becomes a ticket instead of a surprise in month eleven.
The retainer work, productized
Maturity scoring, risk register, policy library, third-party and vendor risk, privacy, AI risk, business continuity and incident-response planning — the deliverables a vCISO retainer produces, generated from live data and re-generated when the data changes.
A Trust Center your clients can read
A branded public trust page per client, published from live GRC data instead of a PDF somebody last updated a year ago — with sensitive reports gated behind an NDA and evidence anchored for independent verification.
A practice, not a checkbox
Compliance is the easiest security service to sell to an SMB, because their customers and insurers are already demanding it. Argos GRC is built so an MSP can run that practice at margin without hiring a compliance analyst first.
Vanta. Drata. And the vCISO retainer
you have been quoting by the hour.
Vanta and Drata are capable products that did something genuinely useful: they made continuous compliance normal for companies that used to do it in a spreadsheet once a year. Our argument with them is architectural, not moral.
A compliance platform sits outside your stack and reaches into it — a connector to the identity provider, a connector to the ticketing system, a connector to the cloud, a connector to the endpoint tool. Each one is a permissioned integration with its own scope, its own failure mode and its own idea of what a “user” is.
It works. It is also a copy of the truth, taken on a schedule, from systems that were never designed to be asked. When a connector breaks, the evidence does not disappear loudly — it goes stale quietly.
And it is priced per company under management, which is exactly the wrong shape for an MSP carrying twenty-six of them.
Argos GRC does not connect to your ticketing system, your asset inventory or your detection platform. It reads the same tables they wrote to, under the same client object, inside the same Kernel.
- No connector to authorize, maintain, or discover has been silently failing since March.
- Evidence carries the timestamp of the work itself, in an append-only• log.
- A control that depends on patching, change approval or incident response is answered by the system that performed it.
- Mapped once, reused across every client — the marginal cost of your next framework is not another subscription.
When to buy Vanta or Drata instead. If you are a software company that needs SOC 2 for your own sales cycle, you do not run an MSP, and your stack is entirely cloud SaaS, buy one of them. They are mature, well staffed and pointed directly at your problem. Argos GRC is for the provider running compliance for other companies, on the same platform that already runs their operations.
We ran it on ourselves first,
including the parts that scored badly.
Our own compliance program is the reference implementation. Same frameworks, same evidence pipeline, same failing controls sitting in the queue with our names on them.
A change-management control is answered by the approval that was recorded on the change request, by the two people who approved it, at the time they approved it. An access-review control is answered by the identity graph that granted the access. An incident-response control is answered by the ticket that worked the incident.
None of that is generated for the auditor. It is the operational record, which is the only kind of evidence that survives being questioned.
- We are not an auditor, an assessor or a certification body, and no compliance platform is. A CPA firm still signs your SOC 2 report.
- A percentage on a readiness dashboard is a management tool, not an opinion. We will not put a number on this page pretending otherwise.
- Zero• Argos OS customers today. The 18• frameworks are mapped and running against our own program, not across a fleet.
- Compliance is not security. We sell both and we keep the distinction, because conflating them is how people end up certified and breached.
The evidence and the work
are the same record.
Every other platform in this category has to fetch the truth. Ours already wrote it.
This is the structural claim, stated so it can be checked: Argos GRC has no integration with Argos Service, Argos Red or Argos Identity, because there is nothing to integrate. They are the same system reading the same client graph. The evidence for a control is a foreign key away from the work that satisfied it.
That produces two properties a connector architecture cannot reproduce at any engineering budget. First, evidence cannot go stale without the operational record going stale — and if your tickets stop, you will notice for reasons unrelated to compliance. Second, evidence cannot be edited after the fact, because it lives in a table the database refuses to let anyone update.
And the chain head of that log is stamped into the public Bitcoin blockchain, so the integrity of your compliance evidence is checkable against a ledger we do not control.
Evidence integrity — the chain of custody
Our own program, gaps included.
Compliance demos are usually a green dashboard. Ours will have amber on it, because a readiness view with nothing failing on it is a readiness view nobody is using.
- A control opened all the way down to the ticket, the change approval or the identity event that satisfies it.
- The same control mapped across two frameworks at once, satisfied by one piece of evidence.
- Drift raising a real ticket in the service desk, on the same client object.
- A client Trust Center published from live data, and the NDA gate in front of the sensitive documents.
- The evidence chain head, and its Bitcoin anchor, opened on a block explorer we do not run.
- A perfect score. Ours is not perfect, and a vendor whose own program is perfect is showing you a sandbox.
- A promise that the platform gets you certified. It gets you ready and it gets you evidence. An auditor still audits.
- Customer logos or reference programs — zero• customers today.
- Pricing invented on the call. Published at launch•, same number for everyone.
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