auditRAMP(AI) builds Luca.
And Luca gives SOC2 auditors back up to $12,000 worth of their time, around 40 hours, per engagement. And they use that time to grow their business, and still have family time during the busy season. Companies getting the audit benefit too, by getting through it faster and cleaner so they can get to serving their enterprise customers as fast as possible.
The auditor is the wedge.
Auditors today sample ~50 events out of millions and attest to the result. Every qualified opinion and failed audit begins with the 99% nobody looked at. Luca tests everything and lets the auditor verify the work — including the absence of findings.
The primary buyer is the auditor: a repeat buyer who runs engagements all year. The secondary buyer is the SaaS company, who buys a single audit-readiness engagement whose output is a portable Luca report — which their auditor then re-runs. That crossing is the moat: auditees pull auditors onto the platform, and auditors pull auditees.
Why now: the capability has existed, but it was never economically buildable by a traditional software team — too many judgment calls, too much unstructured evidence to normalize. AI is the activation energy that finally clears that hill at a justifiable cost.
Defensibility
Full population
Testing everything, not sampling, is the product’s reason to exist — and the thing incumbents priced on pre-AI human economics can’t profitably match.
No-integration distribution
Evidence drop, not ERP integration. The sales cycle is a demo, not a six-month procurement.
Zero-PII architecture
Aggregate-query LLM delegation — the model never touches raw evidence rows. Cheap to run and procurable across regulated verticals.
Standards-grounded reasoning
A defensible point of view (full population, traceable assurance) becomes the thing the industry argues from.
Two-sided referral loop
A readiness engagement on the auditee side produces a report the auditor re-runs to confirm — a warm introduction across the table. Adoption on either side seeds leads on the other, lowering acquisition cost as the installed base grows.
Built by a founder with 15 years adjacent to compliance verification.
Ray Karnes, Founder & CEO
Ray founded auditRAMP(AI) to build the compliance verification architecture he’d spent 15 years working adjacent to. Direct experience leading FedRAMP deployments and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness across multiple roles, with standards-grounded ontology design spanning frameworks across cyber, finance, healthcare, industry, and government.
Advisory: direct advisory by a VP-level audit leader at a top-5 US bank.
Engineering graduate @ CU Boulder
Actively sourcing a GTM co-founder — B2B SaaS sales into security and compliance buyers. Colorado-based preferred, remote-acceptable.
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