Software ate compliance first. Platforms like Vanta and Drata automated the monitoring and the evidence gathering, and the market called it compliance automation. Compliance as a service is the step after that: instead of buying a tool and then staffing the work it surfaces, you subscribe to the outcome. Someone else configures the platform, works the findings, prepares the audit, and answers the buyers — on a recurring basis, for a recurring price.
A note on names, because search blurs them: compliance as a service, CaaS, and managed compliance all describe this same model. Agency’s own term is managed compliance services — everything on this page is that offering, described through the label buyers actually search for.
The test that separates a genuine service from repackaged consulting is simple: after the kickoff deck, who does the work? If the remediation list routes back to your engineers, you bought advice on a payment plan. In a real CaaS engagement the provider’s team executes inside your environment, and your involvement narrows to decisions and approvals.
