Risk & Compliance

Control gap assessment (SOC 2 / ISO 27001)

Extracts documented controls and framework requirements, then grades every requirement covered, partial or absent for SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness.

  • Risk & Compliance
  • Traceable reasoning
  • Runs anywhere
Preview methodology

2–3 weeks ~15 minutes

For one complete, review-ready pass

No coding required

Input
Your process or policy documentation
Output
Covered / partial / absent status per requirement
Runs in
Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
Export
SKILL.md · MCP
Time saved
~2–3 weeks per run

— USE CASES

What people use Control gap assessment (SOC 2 / ISO 27001) for

SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness

Get a requirement-by-requirement position before an external assessor produces it for you.

Post-acquisition control review

Assess an acquired entity's documented controls against your own framework in one pass.

Annual control refresh

Re-run the same mapping after process changes to see which controls have drifted to partial.

What it works from

  • Your process or policy documentation
  • The framework reference, uploaded or pasted
  • Any scoping decisions or exclusions

What you get back

  • Covered / partial / absent status per requirement
  • Missing and weak controls flagged with remediation priority
  • A reusable mapping for the next audit cycle

— HOW IT BEHAVES

How Control gap assessment (SOC 2 / ISO 27001) produces its result

The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.

Coverage, both directions

A coverage pass shows what is supported and what is not — including requirements with nothing behind them and material that supports nothing.

Composed as work product

Findings are written up as a document that reads like professional output rather than raw model text.

Criteria-based analysis

Material is assessed against explicit criteria you control, so the same standard is applied on every run.

Structured extraction

Facts, fields and entities are lifted out of unstructured material and held in a consistent shape.

Why this is expensive by hand

Certification readiness stalls on mapping what you actually do to what the framework requires. SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness is the typical trigger — get a requirement-by-requirement position before an external assessor produces it for you. Done properly it is defensible; done at pace it becomes a judgement call nobody can retrace. And "properly" usually means 2–3 weeks of manual work.

How this Skill produces it

Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; covered / partial / absent status per requirement comes out, alongside missing and weak controls flagged with remediation priority. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. In effect, 2–3 weeks of senior time compresses into ~15 minutes — and the output is comparable across clients, quarters and colleagues instead of shaped by whoever ran it.

Who it's for

  • Independent consultants codifying their own methodology
  • Strategy and transformation teams standardising delivery
  • Internal advisory functions under pressure to produce faster
  • Operators who need defensible output, not a one-off chat answer

Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere

Control gap assessment (SOC 2 / ISO 27001) exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.

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