One evidence chain. Multiple framework lenses.
Frameworks & Standards
Frameworks and regulations describe what an organization must govern. Pulse helps determine what applies, translate those obligations into an approved operating standard, close what is missing, connect the standard to execution evidence, and preserve traceability for later review.
Framework environment
Start with the organization and workflow, not a generic checklist.
Pulse should not assume every framework applies to every organization. Applicability depends on industry, geography, system role, customer commitments, data handled, contractual obligations, regulatory status, and the workflow being evaluated.
Trust Services Criteria
Pulse can help assess readiness, close evidence gaps, and connect selected criteria to operating evidence. The formal SOC 2 examination remains with an independent CPA firm.
Controls relevant to user entities’ financial reporting
Relevant for financially significant processes such as payments, payroll, billing, disbursement, and access/change controls. Formal examination remains separate.
Information security management
Pulse can support applicability, operating evidence, closure, and mapping. Accredited certification remains the role of the authorized certification body.
AI management systems
Translate AI-management obligations into client-fitted operating standards and evidence requirements, then prove relevant execution where the workflow allows it.
Govern · Map · Measure · Manage
Map organizational AI-risk practices to concrete operating criteria and evidence without representing NIST alignment as a certification.
HITRUST · CMMC · PCI DSS · AI laws · contractual standards
The same method can fit other applicable obligations, but each framework retains its own criteria, assessment model, and authorized evaluator where one is required.
Forward mapping
Turn external requirements into operating evidence.
Pulse can reuse common facts, documents, controls, and evidence while preserving the distinct language, scope, and conclusion required by each framework.
Evaluator reversal
Make the same evidence traversable backward.
A regulator, CPA, Internal Audit function, customer auditor, or authorized assessor often starts with the conclusion and asks which procedures, populations, controls, and criteria support it.
Commercial value
Do the mapping once. Reuse the evidence across the loop.
For operators
Less duplicated applicability work, fewer disconnected documents, clearer evidence requirements, and a direct path from standard to execution.
For evaluators
Traceability from the criterion to the standard, evidence population, procedure, exception, and conclusion without rebuilding the chain from scratch.