Case Studies

Real teams, measurable outcomes

From FinTech to Digital Health, these pilot teams turned compliance into a growth motion—without sacrificing velocity.

APArcadiaPay·Payments·New York, NY

Converted SOC 2 fieldwork into merge-time proof inside 60 days.

SOC 2 CCPCI-DSS

Outcome

SOC 2 Type II passed, Series B closed at $42M.

LinearGitHubVantaServiceNow

Challenge

ArcadiaPay had a Series B audit looming with 200+ pull requests a week, all reviewed manually. Compliance teams tracked controls in Linear comments and spreadsheets—no provable trail.

Approach

Certus piloted on the highest-risk repos, wiring Semgrep, SBOM, and policy gates into GitHub while auto-exporting signed Evidence Packs to Vanta and ServiceNow. Linear tickets kept their original workflow, but every merge gained notarised proof.

<48h

Time-to-merge (down from 6.4 days)

Critical violations during SOC 2 Type II fieldwork

$6.3M

ARR unlocked via faster enterprise reviews

“Certus let us keep shipping inside Linear while evidence assembled itself. Our auditors reviewed the same ledger engineering sees—no more screenshots.”
AP
Marcus Chen
VP Engineering, ArcadiaPay

SOC 2 Type II passed, Series B closed at $42M.

SHSundial Health·Digital Health·Austin, TX

HIPAA-grade auditing with zero loss in delivery velocity.

HIPAAISO 27001 Annex A

Outcome

HIPAA attestation with zero findings in the external audit.

LinearGitHubSplunkNotion

Challenge

Sundial’s clinic platform needed HIPAA attestation and enterprise logos, but their 15-person engineering team feared compliance gates would stall feature work.

Approach

ChromaFlow continued to open PRs from Linear issues; Certus enforced PHI access logging, Cosign image signing, and 7-year evidence retention. Outputs were pushed into Notion and Splunk, giving security real-time posture without interrupting engineers.

23%

Faster release cadence post-pilot

15 min

Signed HIPAA Evidence Pack delivered per merge

99.8%

Enforcement pipeline uptime (SLA 99.5%)

“With Certus we stopped playing telephone with auditors. Evidence is born inside every merge gate, and Linear tasks close with compliance already satisfied.”
SH
Dr. Priya Malhotra
CTO & Co-founder, Sundial Health

HIPAA attestation with zero findings in the external audit.

LALumen AI Cloud·Enterprise SaaS·Seattle, WA

Scaled compliance across 42 services without slowing AI delivery.

ISO 27001SOC 2 Type II

Outcome

ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II, three Fortune 100 contracts signed.

LinearGitHubDrataDatadog

Challenge

Lumen needed ISO 27001 + SOC 2 across a polyglot microservice fleet. Existing security checks were ad hoc, no SBOM lineage, and auditors demanded deterministic proof per release.

Approach

Certus deployed blueprint bundles for container signing, IaC drift, and supply chain attestations. Evidence Packs streamed into Drata and Datadog; exec dashboards consumed the signed ledger through GraphQL.

Services under automated governance

10×

Reduction in manual evidence prep

$280K

Audit consulting cost avoided

“Certus is the first compliance platform that feels like a product team designed it. Our AI launch cadence increased even while audit scope doubled.”
LA
Jamie Rodriguez
Director of Platform Engineering, Lumen AI Cloud

ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II, three Fortune 100 contracts signed.

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