About Soveriq

Engagements led by the person who scoped them.

Soveriq is a Melbourne-based governance, risk and compliance consultancy. We help Australian organisations — commercial businesses and public-sector agencies alike — meet the security, privacy and quality obligations imposed on them by their customers, regulators and contracts, and we build the system inside your own environment, so it belongs to you when we've finished.

How engagements are run

A named principal, from scoping to certificate.

Most compliance consultancies sell you a partner and deliver a graduate. Every Soveriq engagement has a named principal who scopes it, leads the delivery and is in the room for the audit. As we bring on consultants and associates, they work under that named lead — who stays accountable for the outcome — rather than a rotating cast you meet on the invoice.

We scope to the capacity we actually have. If your timeline needs more people than we can put on it, we'll tell you before you sign rather than stretch the work to fit. And where an engagement needs a specialist we don't have — penetration testing, a licensed CPA firm for a SOC 2 opinion, legal advice on a privacy obligation — we say so and help you find one instead of improvising.

Engagements requiring access to classified environments are led by a consultant holding an active Australian Government NV1 clearance. For agencies, that means no vetting delay and no escort overhead where the work touches.

Cleared to work in OFFICIAL: Sensitive and PROTECTED environments.

How we are structured

Independent, onshore, and cheaper to keep than to buy.

We don't sell softwareSoveriq takes no commission, referral fee or reseller margin from any security vendor or GRC platform. Our only revenue is the fee you pay us. When we tell you a control is sufficient, there's nothing sitting behind the advice.

Built in your systemsYour policies, risk register, Statement of Applicability and evidence workflows are constructed inside the systems you already own and pay for. Comparable programs carry a compliance-platform subscription that commonly runs into five figures a year and renews for as long as you hold the certificate. Yours renews nothing.

Onshore and Australian-ownedAll work is performed in Australia by Australian personnel. Your risk register, architecture documentation and asset inventories stay in your tenant and in this jurisdiction — a hard requirement for most government work, and increasingly a question in enterprise due diligence.

Where we draw lines

The things we turn down.

WE DON'T AUDIT OUR OWN BUILD

ISO requires internal audits to be conducted objectively. Where we've built your management system and you also want us to run the internal audit, we say so in writing, explain how the two are separated, and support you engaging a third party if your certification body would prefer it.

WE DON'T PROMISE THE CERTIFICATE

The certification decision belongs to an accredited body making an independent judgement — no consultant controls it. What we do stand behind is our own work: within an agreed scope, we remediate audit findings until you're ready, rather than walking away at the first non-conformance. Any firm guaranteeing the certificate itself is either misunderstanding the process or hoping you don't.

WE DON'T OVERCOMMIT

We don't take work we can't staff. If your deadline needs more people than we have available, that's a referral, not a stretch.

WE DON'T LOCK YOU IN

The system is built in your own environment, documented so your people can run it, and handed over with the training to do so. Our maintenance retainer exists because clients want it, not because they're locked in.

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Ready to scope your program?

Tell us what you need to certify and where you're starting from. For most engagements you'll have a written scope and a fixed price within one business day.

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