Proving you're ready should take hours, not weeks.
Every major framework tells you to test your incident, continuity and crisis plans. SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, NIST CSF, CMMC, HIPAA, DORA, APRA CPS 230. The requirement is old. The tooling is new.
Why we built this.
We're Ricky and Darryl, the co-founders of Handrails. We've worked inside Big 4 Audit & Business Assurance and on the ground in Silicon Valley enterprise software for years. We've sat on every side of this table. The same broken thing shows up every time: readiness exercises that take weeks to schedule, a day to run, and another month to write up. So they don't get done. Or they get done once a year, under pressure, and the report drifts into the next quarter.
Meanwhile, the underlying requirement hasn't changed in twenty years. Get the right people in a room, walk through a realistic scenario, write down what happened, fix the gaps. The friction wasn't the work. It was the coordination, the writing up, and the price tag attached to both.
Handrails removes all three. Our AI agent generates a scenario tailored to your business, runs the session live with unlimited participants on a share link, and produces the report mapped to the framework requirement your auditor is going to ask about, within minutes of the session ending.
Four principles we built the product on.
Readiness is a verb
A policy you wrote in 2023 and never exercised is not a plan. It's a document. We make exercising it a regular cadence, not a one-off you scramble through before an audit.
Evidence beats adjectives
Customers, auditors and boards don't want to hear that you're “robust” or “mature”. They want to see a timestamped exercise, a structured report and the decisions your team actually made.
The exercise is the product
Most compliance software helps you collect evidence. Handrails produces the evidence by running the exercise, narrating the scenario and capturing the decisions in a report your auditor recognises.
What AI made possible
A scenario that reflects your actual business, not a template. A facilitator available the day you need it. A report written by the time the session ends. None of this worked a few years ago. It does now.
We're obsessed with security.
You're handing us policies, SOPs and incident scenarios. We treat them like the sensitive material they are. Handrails is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR aligned. Your content is never used to train external models. Your session transcripts, reports and uploaded documents stay yours.
Read more in our Trust Centre or on the Security page.
Three ways to improve readiness.
Tabletops for the moments that matter. Operational Simulations for the muscle memory in between. Readiness Programs when both run on an ongoing cadence.