The Compliance Work, Handled. The Proof, in One Place.
Verdict is a regulatory compliance and governance firm working across federal authorization, commercial assurance, and AI governance. We run the work on your behalf and give you a portal to review every control, finding, and remediation plan behind it.
The Hardest Part of Compliance Isn't Doing It. It's Proving It.
Whether the demand comes from a federal agency, an enterprise buyer, or a regulator, it reduces to the same thing: proving, in writing, that your controls exist and that they work.
That proof is not a document you finish. It is a record that has to stay true as your systems change.
So the work never actually ends, and it lands on the people who can least afford to stop what they are doing.
The usual answer is to buy software, then hire the team to run it. That is two problems, not one.
Three Lanes. One Firm.
Operating for, or selling to, the government.
NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, StateRAMP, and the SSDF. An agency will not run your system, or buy your service, until the record shows the controls are in place and holding. We build that record and keep it current through authorization and the monitoring that follows.
Getting through your customer’s security review.
SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and HIPAA. These are what enterprise buyers, partners, and procurement teams ask for before they will sign. We run the readiness work and carry it through the audit or the certification body.
Showing how your AI systems are governed.
The EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ISO/IEC 42001. Obligations here are arriving faster than most organizations can staff for. We classify the systems, build the governance record, and keep it current as the rules move.
We Do the Work. You See All of It.
There is nothing for your team to install, configure, or operate. The platform is ours. The record it holds is yours, and you can see every part of it.
You engage us.
We work out which frameworks you actually answer to, what your systems look like, and what the engagement needs to cover. No two organizations arrive at the same place.
We do the compliance work.
Our people run it, on our own platform. Control implementation statements, findings, remediation plans, and the evidence references behind them, maintained as your systems change.
You review it in the portal.
Everything we produce lands in a client portal. What is in place, what is open, who owns it, and what changed. Review it, act on it, and hand it to whoever is asking.
What you end up with is a system of record for the proof of compliance: every control, every finding, every remediation plan, and the trail of who changed what and when.
Why Organizations Hand This to Us.
Compliance programs fail in predictable ways. The record drifts from what the systems actually do, nobody can find the evidence when it is asked for, and the person who wrote it has moved on. We are built around not letting that happen.
A firm, not a subscription.
You are not buying seats and then working out who on your team is going to run them. You engage us and we do the work. The platform is how we do it consistently, not something we hand over and wish you luck with.
A system of record, not a pile of documents.
Controls, implementation statements, findings, remediation plans, and evidence references sit in one place with a full audit trail. When someone asks how a control is met, the answer and its history are already there.
Written to be challenged.
The record is built for the person whose job is to find the hole in it: an assessor, an auditor, a certification body, a regulator. That is the standard the work is held to, not an internal one.
We prepare the record. We do not audit it.
Assessment, audit, and certification belong to the independent parties who perform them, and they should. We build and maintain what those parties examine, and we work alongside them rather than in place of them.
The Frameworks We Work Across.
Grouped by who is asking. Most organizations sit in more than one of these, and the overlap between them is where a lot of duplicated effort hides.
Federal Authorization
Commercial Assurance
AI Governance
Questions Federal Teams Ask Us.
What does Verdict actually do?
Verdict is a regulatory compliance and governance firm. We take on the compliance work for an organization and run it, which means building and maintaining the controls, implementation statements, findings, remediation plans, and evidence references that show a program is real. We use our own platform to do that work, and you review all of it through a client portal.
Do we have to install or run any software?
No. The platform is ours and we operate it. You do not license it, configure it, or staff anyone to run it. What you get is a portal where you can see the current state of the program, review what we have produced, and act on what is open.
Which frameworks do you work across?
Three lanes. Federal authorization covers NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, StateRAMP, and NIST SP 800-218 (SSDF). Commercial assurance covers SOC 2 Type I and Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, and HIPAA. AI governance covers the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ISO/IEC 42001.
Do you certify us, or audit us?
No, and we should not. Assessment, audit, and certification belong to the independent parties that perform them, whether that is an auditor, an accredited certification body, or a federal authorizing official. We prepare and maintain the record those parties examine, and we work alongside them.
What do we actually receive?
A system of record for the proof of compliance. Every control and how it is met, every open finding and who owns it, the remediation plan against it, the evidence references behind it, and a full audit trail of what changed and when. It is maintained as your systems change rather than assembled from scratch each cycle.
We fall into more than one of these lanes. Is that a problem?
It is common, and it is usually where the wasted effort sits. A control that satisfies a federal requirement often speaks to a commercial one as well, but most organizations document it twice because the two programs are run by different people in different places. Holding one record across all of it is the point.
Tell Us What You're Facing.
A conversation with a consultant, not a sales demo. Tell us what you sell, who is asking, and what you have in place today, and we will tell you what the work would involve.