Colorado CPA Firm Serving Northern Colorado
SOC 2 Audit Services in Fort Collins
SOC 2 Type I and Type II examinations from a licensed Colorado CPA firm serving Fort Collins and the Northern Colorado tech corridor. Senior-level involvement at every stage, transparent pricing, built for SaaS and technology companies.
- Colorado-licensed CPA firm (FRM.5000785)
- Flat-rate engagements scoped upfront
- Draft report within 2 weeks of fieldwork
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Big Four Training. Boutique Firm Pricing.
We are Northern Colorado locals, and it shows. We are up in FoCo constantly anyway, meeting clients, seeing friends and family, or camping up the Poudre, so sitting down with your team in person is not a special trip, it is a normal week. We came up through Big Four public accounting, then built Sage Audits so CSU spinouts, Harmony corridor SaaS teams, and I-25 hardware shops get that same rigor at a price a growing company can actually plan around. We work on your timeline, we give you straight advice, and we grow with you: whether your stack lives in AWS, Azure, or GCP, your firmware ships from a lab bench, or your evidence already sits in Vanta or Drata, we have sat on your side of the table.
As an independent CPA firm, we test your real control environment and form our own opinion under AICPA standards. No templated checklists, no rubber stamps, and a fixed fee agreed before fieldwork starts, so a first-time Fort Collins startup can budget the engagement as confidently as a funded scaleup.
Colorado SOC Compliance Firm
Colorado Licensed. Northern Colorado Served.
Most firms ranking for "SOC 2 audit Fort Collins" are headquartered in other states. We are a Colorado CPA firm based in Westminster, licensed and insured and accredited by the AICPA to issue SOC reports, with roots that run deeper into Northern Colorado than our office address suggests: our managing partner grew up in Loveland, graduated from Loveland High School, and went on to the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley (go Bears). Northern Colorado is home, not a target market. We are happy to drive up I-25 and meet your team at your Old Town, Harmony corridor, or CSU-area office. Coffee is on us, and the compliance talk is free too.
Licensed and insured AICPA CPA firm. Authorized to issue SOC 1 and SOC 2 reports under AICPA SSAE No. 18.
An actual CPA firm
A Colorado CPA firm (License FRM.5000785) accredited by the AICPA to issue SOC reports under SSAE No. 18. You are hiring auditors, not renting a compliance dashboard or signing with a consulting reseller.
The partner runs the work
The partner on your Fort Collins scoping call is the one doing the fieldwork. No pod of account managers, and no quiet handoff to a first-year once the contract is signed.
Fixed fee, locked on day one
Scoped and quoted before kickoff, then locked. Seeing the full fee upfront matters when you are an early-stage Northern Colorado team watching runway, not getting a surprise invoice on day ninety.
Draft in about two weeks
We aim to put a draft report in your hands within two weeks of wrapping fieldwork. The enterprise prospect holding up your deal will not wait a quarter, so we do not make you.
Fort Collins SOC 2 Engagements
SOC 2 Type I and Type II for Fort Collins Organizations
Which report you need comes down to who is asking for it, how soon they need it, and whether your controls have been formally tested yet. Here is how we scope each one for Northern Colorado teams.
Learn about our processThe Put-In: Scout the Water
Readiness Assessment
Time on the bank: 4 to 8 weeks
Nobody drops into the Poudre without walking the bank first. Readiness is that scout: we line up what you already run against the Trust Services Criteria, show you exactly where the holes are, and leave you a fix-first list to work through in private. None of it lands on the record, because no audit period has started yet.
Best if this is your first SOC 2, or you would rather not find out mid-audit whether your controls hold.
About the Readiness AssessmentThe First Rapids
SOC 2 Type I
Time on the water: 1 to 2 months
Your first real whitewater. A Type I is a CPA opinion on the design of your controls at one fixed date, with no operating history required yet, which makes it the shortest route from kickoff to a report sitting on a buyer's desk.
Best if a deal is waiting on paperwork and the buyer will accept design-only assurance for now.
How a Type I WorksThe Long Run to the Takeout
SOC 2 Type II
Time on the water: Typically 6 to 12 months
The endurance leg. A Type II does not ask whether your controls existed on one date; it tests how they held up across the whole observation window, and a first window can run as short as 3 months. This is the report that carries real weight in procurement, and once you are in market you will run it again every year.
Best if enterprise security teams are asking how your controls performed over time, not just how they were designed.
How a Type II Works
Past the takeout: the run does not end when the Type II is issued. Between report cycles we stay on as a year-round adviser, pick up the phone for one-off control questions, and give you an early heads-up when AICPA SOC 2 guidance shifts, so the next season on the water starts with no surprises.
Not sure which report fits your timeline?
Compared all three above and still weighing it? Answer a few quick questions and we will point you to Readiness, Type I, or Type II, based on your customers and your timeline.
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Custom Quote
Our pricing is structured and fixed-fee. What drives it is the complexity of your environment, the key vendors that support your system, and the commitments you have made to customers, along with how you want those aligned to the Trust Services Categories you put in scope. Share a few details about your situation and we will follow up personally, usually with a quick call, to walk through scope and get you a clear fixed quote you can plan around.
Real numbers, a real conversation with a qualified CPA. No obligation.
Industries We Serve
Serving Northern Colorado's Technology Sector
From CSU spin-outs to the I-25 hardware corridor, we scope SOC 2 engagements around the way Northern Colorado companies build.
SaaS Companies
B2B platforms and application providers closing enterprise deals.
Hardware & Semiconductors
Chipmakers, hardware, and connected-device companies in the I-25 manufacturing corridor.
Fintech & Payments
Payment processors, lending platforms, and financial data providers.
Healthtech & Bioscience
Health data platforms and bioscience companies managing protected information.
Cleantech & Agtech
Clean energy, water tech, and agtech companies, many spun out of CSU research.
Startups
Early-stage companies that need a SOC 2 to close their first enterprise contract.
Serving Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley, Windsor, and companies across Northern Colorado.
What to Expect
How the Engagement Works
Every engagement is partner-led and fixed-fee. We have audited the kind of stacks Northern Colorado runs on, from cloud-native SaaS to firmware and lab systems, so we ask the right questions the first time and your report holds up when your customer's security team reads it.
Scoping Call
A free 30-minute call to learn your stack, your deadline, and which customer is asking for the report. You leave with a fixed-fee proposal, no surprises later.
Readiness Assessment
We map your existing controls to the Trust Services Criteria, flag the gaps, and hand you a prioritized fix list while there is still time to act on it, before the audit window opens.
Fieldwork & Testing
Independent testing, walkthroughs, and evidence review, run by the partner you met on the scoping call. Evidence is pulled from your real tools, not a generic questionnaire.
Report Delivery
A draft in your hands about two weeks after fieldwork wraps. You review it, we finalize, and we walk you through sharing it with the prospect who has been waiting.
SOC 2 Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the questions we hear most from Northern Colorado technology companies evaluating a SOC 2 engagement.
Most Fort Collins engagements price on scope, head count, and how many Trust Services Criteria you include. Every engagement is fixed-fee, agreed before any work begins. Run our pricing calculator or book a scoping call for a number specific to you.
Plan on roughly one to two months for a Type I from kickoff to issued report. A Type II runs as long as its observation window, anywhere from six to twelve months, and we issue the final report within five to seven weeks of that window closing.
No. We are a Colorado CPA firm about an hour south of Fort Collins, and we offer in-person meetings for Northern Colorado organizations along the I-25 corridor. All engagements can also be conducted entirely remotely. We work with SaaS and technology companies across Colorado and nationwide.
Type I is a snapshot: it checks that your controls are designed correctly on a single date. Type II watches those same controls run over an audit period of typically six to twelve months and confirms they held. Most enterprise buyers eventually ask for the Type II. Learn more about our SOC 2 services →
Yes. Vanta, Drata, Secureframe, TrustCloud, we pull evidence straight from whatever you already run, then test it independently rather than taking the dashboard's word for it. See how we use technology in our audits →
A readiness assessment is strongly recommended for first-time SOC 2 engagements. It maps your controls to the Trust Services Criteria, identifies gaps, and produces a prioritized remediation roadmap before the audit period clock starts. Many Northern Colorado SaaS companies use readiness as a way to avoid costly findings during fieldwork. Learn about our readiness assessments →
Security is mandatory on every SOC 2. Whether you add Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, or Privacy depends on what you have promised customers. Most first reports run Security only, Confidentiality is the most common add-on, and Availability follows, especially for SaaS teams with uptime commitments. We settle that with you during scoping.
There are five: Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, and Privacy. Every SOC 2 includes Security, which covers how systems and data are protected day to day. The optional categories follow your customer commitments: Availability for uptime promises, Processing Integrity for complete and accurate processing, Confidentiality for protecting business-sensitive data, and Privacy for personal information. Security alone is the usual starting point, Confidentiality is the most common addition, and Availability comes third, particularly for SaaS. Read our breakdown of all five categories.
Yes. We currently map one control set across SOC 2, NIST CSF, and SOX ITGC in a single engagement, with ISO 27001 mapping on our roadmap, so a Fort Collins company satisfying several frameworks at once is not paying to gather the same evidence three times.
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