Compliance is documented after the fact. HiveComply proves it as it happens.
Eleven framework profiles — SOC 2, ISO/IEC 27001, EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, SOX, DORA, NIST CSF 2.0, FedRAMP, ISO/IEC 42001 — answered from one cryptographically-anchored receipt stream. SOC 2 Type II evidence packs that took twelve weeks of forensic reconstruction now resolve in three days. A regulated enterprise spending $50K–$500K a year on Drata, Vanta, ServiceNow GRC, OneTrust, or AuditBoard keeps those tools and runs HiveComply underneath them as the cryptographic evidence layer auditors actually verify.
The ROI on a single audit cycle
HiveComply ingests events from the Hive verticals stack — DeedLock, ProcureLock, TradeGuard, prove.birth, CLEAR, NewsShield, LEX-Contract, ALCOA+, HIPAA-Hive, StormLock — or any internal event bus you already run. Every event becomes a dual-signed receipt mapped to one or more framework controls. The numbers a CISO reports to the audit committee are these.
A regulated enterprise running roughly five million compliance-relevant events a month across SOC 2 + ISO 27001 + GDPR + HIPAA spends about $500 / month on receipts at the Pro overage rate. That is a rounding error against a single audit invoice and a smaller rounding error against a single regulatory penalty.
HiveComply is a horizontal evidence layer over Drata, Vanta, ServiceNow GRC, OneTrust, and AuditBoard — not a replacement. Those platforms own workflow, policy management, and vendor risk lifecycle. HiveComply owns the cryptographic evidence those platforms reference. Banks, insurers, hospital systems, fintechs, public companies, and defense contractors keep their existing GRC investment and bind it to a tamper-evident receipt stream auditors verify offline.
Evidence layer, not another GRC
GRC platforms document compliance after the fact. They collect screenshots, schedule control owners, and warehouse policy artifacts. HiveComply does one thing they do not: it produces the cryptographically-anchored receipt that every collected artifact ought to be sitting on. That separation is the point.
Every regulated enterprise produces the same kind of evidence under different framework names. The evidence is platform-neutral — that is what makes it defensible to an auditor, a regulator, or a court.
How HiveComply makes a SOC 2 Type II audit fall apart in three days instead of three months
A specific, narrated example. The audit is for the period 2026-05-01..2026-05-08. Trust Services Criteria, Common Criteria CC6.1 — logical and physical access controls. Standard scope.
CC6.1 (logical access). The dashboard returns 12,847 dual-signed access events for the period — every privileged login, every IAM mutation, every break-glass session, with prior-event chain pointers.hivecomply_bundle_export with framework, control, and period. HiveComply emits a canonical evidence bundle — CBOR envelope, SHA-256 manifest, dual signatures — plus an offline verifier binary. Bundle hash is recorded in the audit workpaper.hivecomply_bundle_verify walks every receipt, checks Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65, validates chain pointers, reconciles the manifest. Output: OK 12847/12847.Live verification — what an auditor sees
The bundle is CBOR-canonical and verifies offline against the issuer’s published public keys — no Hive call required at audit time. The panel below is the same shape every auditor renders.
k1:8c2a…kq:b71d…That panel is the entire product surface an auditor needs. No demo. No login. The evidence is its own proof, and the proof works in fifty years on a laptop with no internet.
Frameworks — what HiveComply proves
Eleven framework profiles ship in the box. Each profile maps HiveComply event types to the specific controls a regulator, auditor, or examiner asks for. The third column is what receipts produce that a screenshot-based GRC stack does not.
| Framework | Coverage | What HiveComply proves |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II | Trust Services Criteria | All 5 categories — Security, Availability, Processing Integrity, Confidentiality, Privacy — with dual-signed event streams |
| ISO/IEC 27001 | ISMS controls (Annex A) | All 93 Annex A controls with cryptographic evidence and chain-of-custody |
| EU AI Act | Article 12 (high-risk system logging) | Tamper-evident logs verifiable offline by competent authorities |
| GDPR | Articles 5, 25, 30, 32, 33, 35 | Records of processing, breach-notice timing, DPIA evidence, data-by-design attestations |
| HIPAA | 45 CFR § 164.312 audit controls | Access, modification, and transmission attestations with cryptographic chain |
| PCI DSS 4.0 | Requirements 10, 11, 12 | Logging, monitoring, and information-security-policy evidence |
| SOX | Section 404 ICFR | Cryptographic ICFR evidence for public-company financial reporting |
| DORA | Articles 17–23 | ICT incident logging, third-party ICT risk evidence, resilience test attestations |
| NIST CSF 2.0 | Govern / Identify / Protect / Detect / Respond / Recover | Cross-framework evidence mapping — one event satisfies many controls |
| FedRAMP | Moderate / High baselines | Continuous monitoring evidence aligned with NIST SP 800-53 |
| ISO/IEC 42001 | AI management system | AI lifecycle attestations — data, training, deployment, monitoring, retirement |
3-step integration path
iam_mutation, for instance — maps to SOC 2 CC6.1, ISO 27001 A.9.2, HIPAA 164.312(a), PCI DSS 8.x, NIST CSF PR.AC simultaneously.The 8 MCP tools
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
hivecomply_event_ingest | Ingest a compliance event with a dual-signed receipt envelope. |
hivecomply_evidence_query | Query evidence by framework + control + period. |
hivecomply_bundle_export | Export a canonical evidence bundle for an auditor. |
hivecomply_bundle_verify | Verify a canonical bundle offline against published public keys. |
hivecomply_framework_map | Return all frameworks and controls covered by the active profile set. |
hivecomply_control_status | Return control satisfaction for a framework over a window. |
hivecomply_pricing | Read live pricing surface. |
hivecomply_health | Health probe. |
Eight tools, all live in production. Contact for MCP integration credentials and the full well-known manifest.
The compliance envelope
Every hivecomply_event_ingest call returns an envelope containing event id, event type, framework codes, control codes, subject DID, actor DID, evidence hash, prior-event id, timestamp, and dual signatures (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65). The signatures bind every field. Any tamper attempt invalidates verification.
The envelope is CBOR-canonical. Verification works offline against the issuer’s published public keys. ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) is the post-quantum signature; Ed25519 (RFC 8032) provides classical assurance. Both must verify for the receipt to be valid. Receipts remain valid through key rotation via signed key history.
What this is not
Calibrated expectations are part of the product. HiveComply is narrow on purpose.
The cryptographically-anchored evidence layer that all of those tools should be sitting on. SIEMs, SOARs, GRC platforms, audit firms, and policy systems all run cleaner with a dual-signed receipt under each compliance-relevant event.
Pricing
| Tier | Per event | Events / month | Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | up to 1K | $0 (read-only dashboard) |
| Pro | $0.0001 | up to 50K | $5,000 |
| Enterprise | $0.0001 (volume) | unlimited + custom frameworks | $50,000 |
Annual contracts $60K–$600K. Custom framework profiles (state privacy laws, sector-specific guidance, internal control catalogs) are available at the Enterprise tier. Settlement: USDC on Base 8453 via x402. Treasury exists. Receipts settle in seconds; invoicing is monthly net-30 by default.
Field map
HiveComply binds every compliance-relevant event to a dual-signed receipt that drops cleanly into existing SIEM, GRC, and audit pipelines. Each ingest call accepts the correlation fields below; the envelope round-trips through standard JSON / CBOR transports via the Hive Receipt primitive.
| Field | Format | Maps to |
|---|---|---|
event_id | UUID | Internal correlation id; SIEM event id; GRC artifact id |
event_type | enum | HiveComply event taxonomy — iam_mutation, privileged_login, break_glass, data_access, config_change, … |
framework_codes | array<string> | Framework identifiers — SOC2, ISO27001, EUAIACT, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, DORA, NISTCSF, FEDRAMP, ISO42001 |
control_codes | array<string> | Specific controls satisfied — CC6.1, A.9.2.3, 164.312(a), 10.2, … |
subject_did | did:hive:… | Subject of the event — user, service account, agent, dataset |
actor_did | did:hive:… | Actor performing the event — admin, automated job, agent |
evidence_hash | sha256 hex | Snapshot digest of the underlying artifact (log line, config, screenshot, ticket) |
prior_event_id | UUID | Chain-of-custody pointer to the prior event in the same control thread |
Cross with DeedLock, ProcureLock, TradeGuard, or prove.birth when those verticals are in scope — HiveComply ingests their receipts natively, so a single audit answers across every Hive vertical your enterprise uses.
A real conversation, not a demo black hole
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Questions buyers actually ask
What does HiveComply prove?
Compliance is documented after the fact. HiveComply proves it as it happens. One cryptographic evidence stream answers SOC 2, ISO 27001, EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, SOX, DORA, NIST CSF 2.0, FedRAMP, and ISO/IEC 42001 from a single dashboard.
Does HiveComply replace my GRC tool?
No. HiveComply is the cryptographic evidence layer underneath the GRC tools, attestation auditors, and policy systems already in place. Receipts drop into existing audit workflows; auditors verify offline.
How fast is a SOC 2 Type II window?
Standard SOC 2 Type II evidence collection is three months of after-the-fact log scraping. With HiveComply the evidence stream is already cryptographically captured, so the auditor's evidence pull becomes three days.
How are receipts verified?
Each evidence event is bound to a dual-signed (Ed25519 + ML-DSA-65) post-quantum-ready receipt. ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) is the post-quantum signature; Ed25519 (RFC 8032) provides classical assurance. Both must verify for the receipt to be valid.
Which frameworks are covered today?
SOC 2, ISO 27001, EU AI Act, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS 4.0, SOX, DORA, NIST CSF 2.0, FedRAMP, and ISO/IEC 42001. Field semantics align with each framework's evidence taxonomy.
What does HiveComply cost?
Per-event evidence pricing across the eleven aligned frameworks. Annual contracts for regulated enterprises with multi-framework scope. Settlement is in USDC on Base 8453 via x402.
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