We spent years as technology-risk consultants and IT auditors in the Big Four, issuing SOC reports for global institutions whose systems serve hundreds of millions of users. On a single engagement, we tested more than 1,500 controls ourselves, one by one.
Through that work we handled everything manually: chasing evidence through inboxes, reading configurations line by line, mapping policies to controls late into the night. We tried the compliance tools on the market and most of the process still stayed manual, just with bigger invoices.
We started Manifest to change that. Our agent writes the policies, collects the evidence and scans the code itself, so companies get audit-ready in a week instead of months, at half the price.