Partnerships.
A compliance program rarely sits on its own. Counsel, assessors, cloud providers, integrators, and investors are usually already involved, and the record touches all of them. Verdict partners with the firms in that picture so the work is built once and fits what everyone else is doing.
About Verdict
At Verdict, we are a regulatory compliance and governance firm. Organizations engage us to run their compliance function, and our people do the work on our own platform: control implementation statements, findings, remediation plans, and the evidence references behind them, maintained as the systems change. The client reviews all of it through a portal. There is nothing to license, install, or staff.
We work across three lanes, because they answer to different regulators and different buyers. Federal authorization covers NIST SP 800-53, FedRAMP, FISMA, GovRAMP (formerly StateRAMP), and the SSDF. Commercial assurance covers SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, and HIPAA. AI governance covers the EU AI Act, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and ISO/IEC 42001.
Most organizations sit in more than one of those lanes, and the overlap is where duplicated effort hides. A control written to satisfy a federal requirement often speaks to a commercial one as well. Holding one record across all of it is the point, and it is the same reason partnerships matter: the fewer places the record is rebuilt, the more likely it is to stay true. How we work sets out what an engagement actually involves.
Who we partner with.
Assessors, auditors, and certification bodies
Independent parties examine what we prepare. We work alongside them, respond to what they raise, and keep the record in a state that can be examined without a scramble. The line between the two roles is the whole basis of the relationship, and it does not move.
Law, accounting, and advisory firms
A client facing a security review, a federal authorization, or a new AI obligation often raises it with the firm they already trust. Where that obligation sits outside your scope, we take on the compliance work itself rather than adding a workstream you have to staff and supervise.
Cloud providers, integrators, and managed service providers
Your customers inherit controls from what you build and operate for them. We map what is genuinely inherited, document what remains the customer’s responsibility, and keep that split current as the environment changes.
Investors and portfolio operators
A portfolio company that cannot produce proof loses deals and stalls in diligence. We can take the compliance function on directly so the obligation is met by a firm rather than by a founder learning it during a raise.
What a partnership does not change.
The value of the record is that an independent party can challenge it. A partnership that blurred that would make the work worth less, not more.
We prepare the record. We do not audit it.
Assessment, audit, and certification belong to the independent parties who perform them. Verdict does not perform assessments, audits, or certifications, and no partnership puts us in that seat or a partner in ours.
We prepare, we do not attest.
Whether a control is met is decided by an auditor, an accredited certification body, or a federal authorizing official. Nothing about a working relationship changes who signs, or what they are free to conclude.
We do not hand over the platform.
The platform is how our people do the work consistently. It is not licensed, resold, or white-labeled through a partner, so there is no arrangement in which someone else operates it as their own.
We publish no partner claims.
This page carries no logos, tiers, or badges, and it will not. We make no claim on a partner’s behalf and ask for none in return. If a relationship is worth describing, it is described by the work.
Raise a partnership.
Tell us what you do, who you serve, and where our work would meet yours.