Vanta is excellent software, and it is honest about what it is: a platform that monitors your controls and shows you what needs attention. It does not write your policies, remediate your failing tests, chase your engineers for access reviews, or sit on calls with your auditor. Someone still has to do that work — and at most companies it lands on an engineer or founder who has a full-time job already.
A managed Vanta service closes that gap. Agency’s forward-deployed compliance engineers work inside your Vanta tenant as operators, not advisors: they configure the platform, connect and maintain integrations, collect and validate evidence, fix what monitoring flags, and run the audit end to end. You keep full visibility in Vanta; the checklist stops being your team’s problem.
Agency is a top-ranked Vanta and Drata partner, with 1,000+ companies onboarded to Vanta through Agency — which means the people running your instance do this across hundreds of environments, not one. Patterns that take a first-timer a week to debug are usually things we have fixed dozens of times before.
Week-in, week-out operation — not a readiness assessment that leaves the work with you.
Automated evidence validated and gap-filled by engineers, so every control has current, audit-grade proof — no screenshot-and-spreadsheet cycles. See evidence collection for how auditors evaluate it.
When a Vanta test goes red, Agency remediates it — cloud misconfigurations, missing MDM coverage, stale access — and documents legitimate exceptions instead of letting them rot.
Policy drafting, annual reviews, employee acceptance tracking, and security-awareness training campaigns, mapped to the controls Vanta monitors.
Cloud, identity, HR, MDM, and ticketing integrations connected, deduplicated, and kept healthy so monitoring reflects reality instead of sync errors.
Onboarding and offboarding checklists, quarterly access reviews, and background-check tracking run on schedule and evidenced in the platform.
Auditor selection support, PBC list handling, evidence delivery, and finding remediation — through the observation period and the audit itself.
From kickoff to a clean, operated instance — without pulling your engineers off roadmap.
If you don’t have a Vanta license yet, don’t buy direct before checking partner pricing. Agency resells Vanta at preferred partner pricing that isn’t available through direct sales, backed by a published guarantee: best available price on Vanta or Drata — or Agency matches it or pays you $1,000. Same product, same onboarding, same support — details on the Vanta Best Price Guarantee page.
Already on Vanta? Nothing changes contractually — Agency operates the instance you already own, and can take over renewals at partner pricing when your term is up.
DIY Vanta works when someone on your team genuinely has the hours and the compliance context — budget a real fraction of an engineer through readiness and every audit window after. The math changes when that engineer is your CTO. Our Agency vs Vanta page covers the software-versus-operated decision in depth, and if you’re still choosing a platform, start with the Vanta vs Drata comparison — Agency operates both, so the recommendation isn’t tied to a resale commission.
Case in point: Gorgias, the e-commerce helpdesk, cut compliance costs by $100,000+ a year and took security-questionnaire turnaround from 7 days to 48 hours by handing the program to Agency.
Yes — Vanta is your platform and your data; Agency operates inside it. If you don’t have a license yet, buying through Agency gets preferred partner pricing with the published Best Price Guarantee; if you do, we simply take over operations and can handle the renewal at partner pricing.
For startups, Agency publishes all-in packages — platform, audit, pen test, and the managed work — from $2,500 to $12,500 depending on funding stage and stack, versus the $25,000–$60,000+ most teams spend assembling the same outcome. Later-stage pricing is scoped to your environment and framework mix.
Fixing them is the point. Agency’s engineers push the actual remediation — infrastructure-as-code changes, access cleanup, MDM enrollment, policy rollout — and document legitimate exceptions properly, rather than emailing you a list of red tests. If you’re mid-fire-drill, that remediation sprint can start immediately.
You do, always. Agency works with scoped, auditable access inside your tenant. If we ever part ways, you keep the instance, the evidence history, the policies, and every artifact — there’s no lock-in mechanism.
Everything Vanta supports that you need — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, CMMC 2.0, ISO 42001, HITRUST, and US data privacy laws. Cross-framework mapping means work done for SOC 2 carries forward to ISO 27001 and beyond instead of starting over.
