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v1.5: calibration for a company of one

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@ausyinn ausyinn released this 20 Aug 15:36
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Calibration for a company of one.

  • Fourteen worked calibration examples across thirteen checks record how a
    one-person company meets controls that are usually written for a team:
    background checks with no hires yet, a founder's own role description and
    dated annual self-review, a named backup with runbooks for continuity,
    provisioning and offboarding where the only events are a contractor's,
    privileged access a founder grants themself with a dated justification, one
    owner account plus scoped service accounts as role-based access, a solo
    developer's emergency-change and architecture-review records, separation of
    duties evaluated as infeasible with the compensating controls named, a
    vendor's accepted standard terms as the contract's security clauses, and an
    independent advisor's written annual review as an independent evaluation
    instrument.
  • One of the fourteen fails: a continuity plan that lives only in a spoken
    arrangement.
  • No pass criteria change. The examples add pass paths at the size of one
    person; they do not remove a requirement. The diff is in this repository.
  • method/tools.md catches up with three tools the server
    has exposed since 2026-08-13: one that asks how else a security setting could
    be changed outside the normal process (bypass routes), one that records what
    the report assumes the client's customers and cloud providers do
    (complementary controls), and one that records the SOC 2 reports held for
    subservice organizations. EVL-01/A3's typical-evidence line now lists the
    instruments the independent-evaluation page describes.