Using Claude to Start Your Regulatory Compliance Journey
TL;DR Regulatory compliance – SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, ISO 27001 – looks impenetrable from the outside. Hundreds of controls, dozens of policy documents, auditor-specific jargon, and no clear starting point. Before you hire a $300/hour consultant or drop $50K on a GRC platform, you can use Claude to do the initial heavy lifting: map which frameworks apply to your business, identify your biggest gaps, draft policies that match your actual infrastructure, build a prioritized remediation plan, and prepare for your first auditor conversation. This post walks through the process I used, with real prompts and outputs, to go from “we probably need SOC 2” to a concrete compliance roadmap in a single afternoon. ...