The trail
What the tool actually looks like
Audit readiness
Varða takes your team control by control through the framework, tests what you can actually show, and turns every gap into an owned task.
Click a stone, or a mark on the screen, to see how each part connects.
Two ways in
Same engine either way. One is a full evidence-first assessment; the other tells you whether a single policy holds up.
Framework assessment
Work the whole control set with your team. Attach the evidence you actually have, test it, and see exactly where the file is thin, then hand a board-ready report to the people who need to sign it off.
Quick policy test · free
Drop in a single policy. Varða reads it against the framework you pick and tells you what a reviewer would question. No login needed to try it.
The trail
How it works
Each step sits on the one below it. Skip a stone and the stack won't hold, which is exactly how audits fail.
Stone one
Pick the framework and tell Varða what's in scope: entities, systems, the bits you outsource. It loads the control set and drops the questions that don't apply to you.
Stone two
One control at a time, in plain language. Answer, attach what you have, assign what you don't. Varða marks the difference between a claim and evidence for it.
Stone three
Test the controls that matter, record what you found, and chase the open evidence requests until the list is empty. This is the work an auditor would otherwise find for you.
Stone four
Export the readiness picture as a PDF your board or your auditor can read cold: gaps, owners, remediation order. Then walk into fieldwork knowing what they'll find.
In practice
You open the control, see two quarters evidenced and one empty, and raise the request against the owner, before anyone asks you for it.
The Quick Policy Test flags the clause a reviewer would push on: an obligation with no owner and no review cycle attached to it.
Export the report. The risk committee gets the gap list and the remediation order in language they already use, no screenshots of a tool.
Comparison
Between a spreadsheet you maintain by hand and a full GRC platform you have to implement. Readiness, not continuous compliance theatre.
Who built it
Varða is solo-built by an audit and risk advisory practitioner with Big 4 background across Deloitte and KPMG, plus public-sector audit work at the Queensland Audit Office. Every control question in the product is written the way it would be asked in a real assessment, because it has been.
That also means you talk to the person who built it. No tiering, no handoff.
Request a walkthrough
A short walkthrough, direct with the founder. Not a sales queue. Thirty minutes, your framework, your scope, we'll walk the assessment with your own controls in front of us.
Prefer to just try it? Run a free Quick Policy Test →