Find your nonconformities first.

Adfirma reads your policies and records the way a certification auditor will — grades every clause and control in real audit vocabulary, and tells you what to fix, in order, every day of the year. Not a gap assessment. A workspace.

ISO/IEC 27001 · ISO 9001 · NSQDMH — manage the compliance you need.

4 — Context of the organisation

Built for the person who actually owns the management system.

The ISMS manager. The quality manager. The digital-health provider carrying NSQDMH. Usually one overworked person, holding the management system together with a spreadsheet, a SharePoint folder, and a calendar reminder. We know the week before the audit feels like this:

the week before the CB visit

You don't know where it will hurt.

Somewhere in ninety-three controls and seven clauses, there's a finding waiting. A gap assessment six months ago doesn't answer it. You need today's picture, graded the way the auditor will grade it.

the document system

Your policies live in SharePoint. Your compliance tool doesn't.

Every copy you upload somewhere else is stale the moment someone edits the original. Review dates lapse quietly. The SoA says one thing; the procedure says another. Nobody notices until someone external does.

the audit itself

The auditor asks. You scramble.

Show me how you meet A.8.12. The answer exists — in a document, somewhere. And every evidence request becomes another email thread, another attachment, another sorry, which version is this? — with no record of what was shared, or when.

9 — Performance evaluation

Green ticks are for checkboxes. Audits are graded.

Checkbox compliance tools were built for SOC 2 SaaS startups: connect an API, collect a tick. Your management system doesn't live in APIs — it lives in documents: policies, procedures, records, minutes. Adfirma reads them the way an auditor reads them, and grades every requirement in the vocabulary auditors actually use:

The dashboard is coverage across the standard. The backlog is whatever isn't green. The order is severity. No invented scores, no percentages that mean nothing at the closing meeting.

8 — Operation

Those three pains, taken off your desk.

Not features for a comparison grid — each of these exists to make one of those bad weeks stop happening to you.

01 · when someone asks "show me"

Answer with the citation already in hand.

The auditor, the client questionnaire, your CEO — ask "how do we control access for leavers?" and your answer arrives with citations into your own procedures, section and paragraph. Nothing is asserted that you didn't confirm — so the answer holds up when it's read back to you at the closing meeting.

And when your evidence doesn't support an answer, you're told plainly — while it's still your private problem to fix, not a finding with your name on it.

Ask · cited answers only
How do we control access for leavers?
Access is revoked within 24 hours of termination; HR raises the ticket and IT confirms removal from the identity provider.
Offboarding Procedure §4.2Access Control Policy §7
Not supported by your evidenceNothing in your documents covers revocation for third-party contractors. That's the gap — not an answer we'll invent.
02 · when documents drift

Keep working in SharePoint. The flags come to you.

Your documents stay where your organisation already keeps them — SharePoint / OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox. No re-uploading, no stale copies to babysit. When a colleague edits the Risk Methodology, exactly the assessments resting on it flag themselves for you to re-check. Not the whole programme. Not nothing. Exactly those.

Every version is kept immutably — so when you're asked for the policy as it stood at the audit date, you have it, without having ever thought about it.

Documents · connected to SharePoint
ISMS › Controlled Documents
31 documents synced · change detected 2 h ago
Syncing
Risk Methodology v3
Changed after last assessment → 2 requirements flagged
Re-assess
Access Control Policy
Review was due 30 Jun · owner J. Rivers
Review overdue
03 · when the auditor arrives

Evidence requests, answered in a click — on the record.

Audits run on evidence requests. Instead of email threads and drive links, you invite your auditor into a purpose-built room: the document register, current versions, originals downloadable — and a request line. They ask; you share the exact records they need in a click, each grant logged with date and scope. That log is the evidence-request record both sides keep for the closing meeting.

Sharing gets easier, and cleaner: the auditor gets precise, current evidence fast, instead of excavating a drive — and your working drafts and internal notes stay what they are, working papers. Structured requests in, exact evidence out, one shared record.

Audit room · disclosure log
24 Jul
Access review records disclosed to M. Osei (re: A.5.18)
24 Jul
Request: "Latest access review records" Fulfilled
23 Jul
Request: "Full risk register export" Declined — scope
22 Jul
M. Osei invited as Auditor — sees the register and disclosures only
6 — Planning

If your evidence is documents, checkbox tools were never built for you.

Checkbox compliance platformsAdfirma
Built forSOC 2 SaaS startups with API-connected stacksDocument-based management systems — ISO 27001 & 9001
ReadsIntegration checkboxesYour actual policies, procedures and records
VerdictsPass / fail ticksThe real audit scale — Adfirmant → Major NC
AI answersGenerated, unattributedCited to your documents, human-confirmed — refuses when unsupported
Your documentsRe-uploaded copies going staleRead in place — SharePoint, Drive, Dropbox — changes trigger re-assessment
The auditorEmail threads and drive linksA purpose-built audit room — requests and evidence, logged for both sides
ISO/IEC 27001:2022 ISO 9001:2015 NSQDMH — next SOC 2 — next Essential Eight — next

Manage the compliance you need — one standard is the normal case. And when you do carry more than one (27001 + 9001, or a sector scheme like NSQDMH on top), they ride the same document set on a shared skeleton, crosswalked — so the second standard is a plus, not a second job.

10 — Improvement

The certification body books the date.
You decide what they find.

Bring your real documents — thirty minutes in, you'll be looking at your own graded worklist, not a demo dataset.

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In-region hosting (Sydney) · your evidence stays yours · originals stored immutably.