AI Compliance Policy Generator for SMBs
Generate SOC 2-ready privacy, security, and retention policies plus a gap checklist in minutes — the paperwork starter kit priced under Vanta and Drata.
A five-person SaaS startup closes its first six-figure enterprise deal, and the buyer's security team sends over a questionnaire: 120 rows asking for a privacy policy, an information security policy, a data retention schedule, an incident response plan, and evidence of "SOC 2 readiness." The founder has none of it. They Google "SOC 2 for startups," land on Vanta or Drata, and discover the entry price is a five-figure annual contract before an auditor has looked at their environment. So they do what almost every early-stage team does: copy a policy template off GitHub, swap the company name, and hope nobody asks a follow-up question.
Built for Solo Founders, Non-Technical, Developers.
The global governance-risk-compliance software market was valued at roughly $72.4 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $203.7 billion by 2033, a 13.7% CAGR (Grand View Research) — large and growing, but that growth is concentrated in mid-market and enterprise contracts, not the sub-10-person segment.
Suggested stack: Next.js 14 (App Router) + Vercel, Supabase (Postgres + Auth), Claude Sonnet with structured JSON output, @react-pdf/renderer, Stripe Billing, Resend. Weekend scope: about 10 hours.
The Problem
A five-person SaaS startup closes its first six-figure enterprise deal, and the buyer's security team sends over a questionnaire: 120 rows asking for a privacy policy, an…
The Solution
A guided questionnaire that turns fifteen minutes of structured input about a company's stack, data flows, and vendors into a starter compliance pack: a privacy policy, an…
Market Research
The global governance-risk-compliance software market was valued at roughly $72.4 billion in 2025 and is projected to reach $203.7 billion by 2033, a 13.7% CAGR (Grand View…
Competitive Landscape
Vanta — The category leader; continuous monitoring integrations across AWS, GCP, GitHub, Okta, and 375+ other tools, plus a Trust Center and vendor risk workflows. Core plan…
Business Model
Free ($0) — One pack generation (privacy policy + info security policy only), watermarked PDF, basic 10-item gap checklist
Recommended Tech Stack
Next.js 14 (App Router) + Vercel — Questionnaire flow, document editor, and dashboard in one repo; Vercel Edge for fast marketing/comparison pages that drive SEO traffic.
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1. Project Setup
Create a Next.js 14 (App Router, TypeScript, Tailwind) project called "PolicyKit" for generating SOC 2-adjacent starter compliance documents. Provision Supabase with these tables: companies (id, name, industry, employee_count, plan default 'free'), questionnaire_responses (id, company_id, category CHECK IN 'infrastructure'/'data_handling'/'access_control'/'vendors'/'incident_process', answers JSONB, updated_at), documents (id, company_id, doc_type CHECK IN 'privacy_policy'/'info_security_policy'/'data_retention_policy'/'incident_response_plan', content_markdown, version default 1, generated_at, pdf_url), gap_checklist_items (id, company_id, criterion, category, status CHECK IN 'met'/'partial'/'missing', notes). Enable row-level security so each user only reads/writes rows where company_id belongs to them. Wire Stripe with three products: Free, Starter ($29/mo + $149 one-time pack SKU), Team ($79/mo). Add env vars ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, STRIPE_SECRET_KEY, RESEND_API_KEY.
2. Questionnaire-to-Document Generation Pipeline
Build the core generation pipeline. Step 1: a multi-step questionnaire form (5 categories, ~25-30 questions) that writes structured answers into questionnaire_responses as typed JSON (cloud_provider, sub_processors array, encryption_at_rest boolean, log_retention_days, incident_contact_email, etc). Step 2: store four Markdown templates (privacy policy, information security policy, data retention policy, incident response plan) with named fill-in slots. Step 3: a server action that assembles the full questionnaire profile, sends it to Claude with a system prompt instructing it to (a) fill every slot using ONLY facts present in the profile, (b) never invent a vendor, date, or contact not present in the input, (c) flag any slot it cannot confidently fill instead of guessing, and (d) return strict JSON with one filled Markdown document per doc_type. Step 4: render each document to PDF via @react-pdf/renderer, store both the Markdown and PDF URL, increment the version number on regeneration, and store a diff summary of what changed since the last version.
3. SOC 2 Gap Checklist Scoring
Build a gap-checklist feature that scores a company's questionnaire answers against roughly 40 SOC 2 Type I trust-service criteria, grouped into 5 categories: access control, change management, monitoring and logging, vendor management, and incident response. For each criterion, write a rule that maps to specific questionnaire answers (e.g. "MFA enforced on all admin accounts" maps to answers.mfa_enforced === true) and sets status to met, partial, or missing. For criteria that can't be deterministically scored, send the relevant answers to Claude with a prompt asking it to classify status and write a one-sentence explanation, returning strict JSON with criterion, status, and explanation fields. Render the checklist as a dashboard with a completion percentage per category and an overall readiness score, plus a "what to fix first" ranked list sorted by which missing items are cheapest to close (writing a policy) versus hardest (implementing a new monitoring tool).