Audit readiness and pre-audit validation
Preparing organizations for SOC 2, ISO, PCI, and AI governance expectations before formal audits begin.
Engineering-grade cybersecurity, AI readiness, and audit support for growing companies
Helping teams operationalize controls, evidence, and governance before audits, customers, or regulators force the issue.
The Reality of Audit Readiness
Companies don't fail audits due to lack of intent. They fail because systems, evidence, and governance evolve faster than structure can keep pace. Security controls often exist in practice but lack consistent documentation. Evidence lives across tools, people, and time. AI capabilities advance faster than governance frameworks can adapt.
By the time an audit is scheduled, teams are forced into reactive reconstruction of decisions and controls that should have been captured systematically. The result is stress, disruption, and avoidable gaps not caused by negligence, but by missing operational structure.
What We Do
Persow supports technical leaders across four outcome-driven areas:
Cybersecurity and infrastructure foundations
Establishing practical security and infrastructure patterns that scale with growth rather than slowing it down.
AI readiness and governance alignment
Helping organizations design practical AI governance structures, including executive councils, risk frameworks, policy guardrails, and decision models that balance innovation velocity with responsible oversight. Clarifying which risks are truly AI-specific and which are broader technology risks that require consistent governance across tools.
Fractional advisory for founders, CTOs, and boards
Providing senior-level guidance to founders, CTOs, and boards without the overhead of full-time roles.
Assess Reality
Centralize Evidence
Validate Controls
Identify Gaps
Clean Handoff
This approach turns audit preparation into a repeatable operational discipline
How We Work
A pragmatic, engineering-driven approach
We start by assessing what exists today, not what policies claim. Evidence is centralized and structured against control frameworks. Readiness is validated through systematic mapping, not assumptions. Gaps are identified early, giving teams time to remediate without panic. When auditors engage, they receive organized documentation and clear control narratives. No surprises, no excavation projects. The process emphasizes clarity, traceability, and defensibility at every stage.
Technology That Supports Clarity
Persow uses a supporting platform to help teams centralize evidence, map artifacts to controls, and validate readiness before engaging auditors.
The platform accelerates the mechanical work of organization, traceability, and validation. It surfaces gaps early, tracks remediation, and preserves audit context.
Judgment, accountability, and decision-making remain human-led. Software supports clarity, it does not replace expertise. The result is greater clarity, reduced friction during audits, and confidence in the defensibility of evidence.
Who We Work With
Persow works with organizations where growth, regulation, and technical reality intersect. Engagements are shaped by organizational maturity, regulatory context, and growth trajectory.
Growth-stage and regulated companies
Organizations preparing for audits, scaling security programs, or responding to increasing customer and regulatory scrutiny.
Fintech and regulated SaaS
Companies handling sensitive data and operating under frameworks such as SOC 2, PCI DSS, and sector-specific regulatory expectations.
Healthcare and biotech-adjacent firms
Teams building in regulated environments that require strong data governance, security controls, and audit readiness without slowing innovation.
Security and audit partners
Collaboration with selected firms such as 5Tattva and Sedna Consulting to provide complementary readiness, validation, and audit execution support for shared clients.
About
Persow focuses on what comes next, not just what passes today.
Persow is led by a senior technology executive with over 30 years of experience spanning software engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, AI, and audit-driven environments.
The work draws on experience across startups navigating rapid growth, large enterprises managing complex regulatory requirements, and advisory roles supporting technical leadership through audits and governance transitions.
Engagements are delivered through a small, senior-led team and trusted partners to ensure depth of expertise without diluting accountability.
Persow works with a limited number of clients at a time to ensure direct involvement, clarity of outcomes, and defensible results. Engagements are led directly and supported by senior partners to maintain continuity and accountability.
Persow means day after tomorrow.
Start a Readiness Conversation
No sales pitch. Just clarity.
If you're preparing for an audit, building governance around AI capabilities, or establishing cybersecurity foundations that can scale, let's discuss your specific context.
Initial conversations focus on understanding your current state, timeline constraints, and desired outcomes. From there, we can determine whether an engagement makes sense and what structure would deliver the most value.
Reach out to explore readiness, validation, or fractional advisory support.