SOX Evidence Collection Took 6 Weeks. Now Takes 4 Days. 🔥

Duy Bui

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25d • General Discussion 💬

Public company. Annual SOX compliance. 127 controls requiring evidence.

The old process:

- Email control owners requesting documentation

- Chase people for 6 weeks

- Manually compile evidence binders

- Auditor reviews, requests additional items

- More chasing

- Finally complete

Total effort: 6 weeks of someone's life. Every year.

Built an evidence collection system.

Control matrix uploaded. System identifies required evidence types per control. Monitors document repositories for matching files. Extracts relevant sections automatically. Compiles evidence binders. Tracks completeness. Alerts for missing items.

This year's results:

- 127 controls documented

- 89% of evidence auto-collected from existing repositories

- 4 days to complete compilation (was 6 weeks)

- Auditor had zero additional requests

The system finds evidence that already exists. Most SOX evidence lives in email attachments, shared drives, and ticketing systems. People just can't find it fast enough.

Freed up 240 hours of staff time. Better audit outcome.

What compliance evidence are you manually hunting for?

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