
Compliance and Self-Assessment Guide
A control model, seven frameworks and a 42-question self-assessment. Not legal advice, not a certification.
PDF · 20 pages · 1.6 MB · QODIQA-CG-1.0 · v1.0 · 2026-10-29
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SOC 2AICPA Trust Services CriteriaStandard · Conformance
The conformance documents let an implementer check their own system against the standard. They are not a certification, and no one is currently able to issue one.
Self-assessment is not certification
| Aspect | Self-assessment (available) | Certification (not available) |
|---|---|---|
| Who decides | You, against the published framework and checklist. | An independent body. None exists yet. |
| What you can say | “We assessed our implementation against the qodiqa conformance framework.” | Nothing: there is no certified status to claim. |
| Evidence | Your own results and the evidence your deployment produces. | Not applicable. |
1 · How self-assessment works
Every control point of the 68-Point Enforcement Framework becomes one yes-or-no condition.
What you get
A profile is met only when all its mandatory points are satisfied: 24 of 24, 44 of 44 or 68 of 68. No partial score.
Per unmet point: the control point, the gap, the responsible team and a target remediation date. Classed BLOCKING, MARGINAL or EVIDENCE.
Tests for twelve control points (QCC-01 to QCC-12) and eight verification conditions (VC-01 to VC-08) are defined in two further documents.
2 · The checklist, by domain
The same structure as the published checklist. Choose the profile you are aiming for, open a domain to read its conditions word for word and tick what your system demonstrably meets.
The domain tiles need JavaScript. Read the checklist in full in the Implementation Conformance Checklist.
Read the framework

A control model, seven frameworks and a 42-question self-assessment. Not legal advice, not a certification.
PDF · 20 pages · 1.6 MB · QODIQA-CG-1.0 · v1.0 · 2026-10-29
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A runtime answer to seven frameworks: one control layer.
PDF · 14 pages · 970 KB · Vol. 01 · Edition 2026
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