Compliance ROI calculator

What does repeated compliance work cost you each year?

Enter your own numbers to see the hours spent redoing work your team has already done once, and what those hours cost.

Calculate your ROI See how it is calculated

Frameworks and evidence

Frameworks you run or plan this year

Count each standard or regulation you report against, such as SOC 2 and ISO 27001.

Evidence items per framework per year

Screenshots, exports, reports and records you hand to an auditor in a year.

Hours to collect one evidence item

Finding, exporting, naming and filing one item, including chasing its owner.

Share of a new framework's evidence you already hold 50%

How much of the second framework asks for evidence you already collect for the first.

Security questionnaires

Security questionnaires answered per year

Customer and prospect security reviews your team completes.

Hours per questionnaire

Across everyone who touches one questionnaire.

Share of questions you have answered before 60%

Questions you have answered in an earlier questionnaire.

Audits

External audits or assessments per year

External audits, certification visits and customer assessments.

Hours packaging and sending evidence per audit

Gathering, zipping, sending and re-sending evidence to the auditor.

Cost

Loaded cost per hour

Salary plus overheads for the people doing this work, per hour.

Starting values are placeholders, not benchmarks. Replace them with your own.

What drives the number

Where Certifyi removes repeated work

One control, several frameworks

Map a control once and its evidence counts for every framework in the catalogue that references it, so a second framework does not mean collecting the same evidence again.

Frameworks and controls

Answers you have already given

Incoming questionnaires are filled from your approved answer library, and AI drafts the rest from your own controls and records for a person to review.

Security questionnaires

Auditors work in your workspace

Give an auditor scoped, time-limited access to the evidence in scope instead of packaging folders and zip files for every request.

Auditor workspace

Method

How the estimate is calculated

Three sums from your inputs, added together. Nothing else goes in.

Evidence collected again = (frameworks − 1) × evidence items per framework × share you already hold × hours per item

Answers written again = questionnaires per year × hours per questionnaire × share answered before

Evidence packaged again = audits per year × hours packaging evidence per audit

Cost = total hours × your cost per hour. Full-time people = total hours ÷ 1,760 (220 working days of 8 hours).

Questions

About the calculator

What does the calculator measure?

The hours a year your team spends redoing compliance work it has already done once: evidence collected again for another framework, questionnaire answers written again, and evidence packaged again for each audit. It turns those hours into a cost using your hourly rate.

Where do the starting values come from?

They are starting points so the page shows a result, not industry benchmarks. Replace each one with your own numbers; the estimate uses nothing else.

Is this the saving Certifyi guarantees?

No. It estimates the repeated work Certifyi is designed to remove. How much of it you remove depends on your frameworks, your mapping and how your team works.

Why does the result not show a return on investment percentage?

The calculator measures the repeated work only. Bring the result to a demo call and we will show which parts of it Certifyi is designed to remove.

What happens to my email address?

We send your results to it, and the Certifyi team may contact you about the platform. You can unsubscribe at any time. Your inputs are stored with your email so we can discuss them with you.

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We will show where the repeated work sits in your programme and compare it with a quote.

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