Jay Mac

Delve, a YC-backed compliance startup that raised $32 million, has been accused of systematically faking SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR compliance reports for hundreds of clients. According to a detailed Substack investigation by DeepDelver, a leaked Google spreadsheet containing links to hundreds of confidential draft audit reports revealed that Delve generates auditor conclusions before any auditor reviews evidence, uses the same template across 99.8% of reports, and relies on Indian certification mills operating through empty US shells instead of the "US-based CPA firms" they advertise. Here's the breakdown: > 493 out of 494 leaked SOC 2 reports allegedly contain identical boilerplate text, including the same grammatical errors and nonsensical sentences, with only a company name, logo, org chart, and signature swapped in > Auditor conclusions and test procedures are reportedly pre-written in draft reports before clients even provide their company description, which would violate AICPA independence rules requiring auditors to independently design tests and form conclusions > All 259 Type II reports claim zero security incidents, zero personnel changes, zero customer terminations, and zero cyber incidents during the observation period, with identical "unable to test" conclusions across every client > Delve's "US-based auditors" are actually Accorp and Gradient, described as Indian certification mills operating through US shell entities. 99%+ of clients reportedly went through one of these two firms over the past 6 months > The platform allegedly publishes fully populated trust pages claiming vulnerability scanning, pentesting, and data recovery simulations before any compliance work has been done > Delve pre-fabricates board meeting minutes, risk assessments, security incident simulations, and employee evidence that clients can adopt with a single click, according to the author > Most "integrations" are just containers for manual screenshots with no actual API connections. The author describes the platform as a "SOC 2 template pack with a thin SaaS wrapper" > When the leak was exposed, CEO Karun Kaushik emailed clients calling the allegations "falsified claims" from an "AI-generated email" and stated no sensitive data was accessed, while the reports themselves contained private signatures and confidential architecture diagrams > Companies relying on these reports could face criminal liability under HIPAA and fines up to 4% of global revenue under GDPR for compliance violations they believed were resolved > When clients threaten to leave, Delve reportedly pairs them with an external vCISO for manual off-platform work, which the author argues proves their own platform can't deliver real compliance > Delve's sales price dropped from $15,000 to $6,000 with ISO 27001 and a penetration test thrown in when a client mentioned considering a competitor

Over the last few years, it's been observed more and more that the real world actually has a lot to offer. the current generations has gone through a complete 30+ year cycle on the digital trail, and thus entered a new stage. A stage of slight repulsion. Much like the 60's and 70's revolted against the generation before them. But the interesting play here is that there is a revolt against millennials and to some degree the boomers, but clearly the millennials are revolting against themselves too. Continuous learning, and higher self-awareness has made the millennial generation better positioned to lean into change than their pre-cursors. So when I saw explode, its an understatement. We are already seeing it with music festivals and low hanging fruit of sorts being sold out a year in advance. We see it with large gatherings a conferences bringing in more people than ever. But we also see it in neighbourhoods, boots on the ground sort of grass roots movement. Run clubs, matcha clubs, listening cafes, sauna clubs, book clubs, walking clubs, €%&/ clubs. You name it. But analog does not mean = IRL only, it also means love for tangibility. We see vinyl outselling digital downloads. We see a love for single purpose tech, like corded phones for our homes (albeit still powered by our phones or a digital backbone) but we long for the simplistic and understandable. A counter to the black piece of glass that has become synonymous with technology today. We want quirk. we 3d print. we make. At first this was only observed as a fringe, perhaps, lowkey slow movement. Of people choosing to offload their social media apps, install app blockers, and go outside to touch grass. This feels like the hard-core group. But the thing is, from that group an emergent behaviour and pattern has emerged. A pattern that cleary shows a high degree of disdain for technology, social media and AI. Definitively hate for AI. It's very clear at this stage, this is not some fringe movement in the back waters of society, this is a movement front and center in the zeitgeist today. Seriously just open the explore page on IG after dwelling in this subject for a day, and the algorithm will show you exactly whats going on in this part of the internet. Slowly at first, and suddenly everything at once. The counter to this movement, is basically whats happening closer to what I call home. The AI sphere, the agentic systems, your claws, your codex, your computers. The one man $1bn business, the hustlers and innovators, who might be drawing a last sip of the golden goose as I type. You see when normies are busy trying to unwind their addiction to tech, the maximalists are not just doubling down, they are coming for it all. full on. no breaks. We are living though the most transformative moment since the industrial revolution, perhaps even the invention of electricity. Yet there are these jing and jang forces at play, that some how keeps the universe in some sort of balance. While chaos continues to unfold. Make sure you take note. Remember this time. Its fleeting, but in hindsight, I'm certain we will all think that we should have done this or that. Keep your head up.

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everyone told me having a kid would slow me down but my son is 9 months old now and i feel like my life just started this is my first time reflecting on it publicly. here's everything i've learned so far: 1. everything before feels like a prequel of a movie. like i was living in a draft version of my own life and didn't know it 2. my bullshit detector went through the roof. if something doesn't get me closer to where i want to be or it cuts into time with my son, i just don't do it. zero hesitation 3. i used to spend so much time circling around my own thoughts. overthinking, optimizing, generally self-obsessed. having a kid quietly turns that off. people say you lose yourself when you have a kid. i think that's actually the point 4. being present becomes easy. with a kid you have to be. you can't get sucked into your phone. just sitting on the floor playing and laughing is honestly like a spiritual practice 5. your relationship with your parents changes overnight. you see them as equals for the first time. you realize they were your age or younger doing the exact same thing. suddenly you understand how much they sacrificed and any bad blood just gets a new reference point 6. watching my girlfriend become a mother is one of the most beautiful things i've seen. she wanted this earlier than me. now i feel like a complete idiot for ever doubting it 7. birth and postpartum were scary. she dealt with hormonal depression and it took a while to recover. she's the most upbeat person i know so seeing her like that was rough. my respect for what women go through changed completely 8. i miss one-on-one time with my girlfriend. that's been the hardest part. i sometimes miss the old life. but i wouldn't go back. i would have just kept living the same way forever 9. some friendships just stop working. having a kid makes lifestyle mismatches obvious fast. you only see it once you're in it 10. having a child completely changed why i use AI. it's way more about having time to live and be with my son than about maxing productivity so i can do more. the whole equation flipped 11. building my life the way i did is paying off now. working from home, being self-employed, being able to afford help with cleaning and meals. all of that eats your time like crazy once you have a kid. and i get to see my son multiple times during my workday. just pick him up, play a little, eat together. those moments make a huge difference 12. every time i step into more responsibility it gives me more purpose. running a company, employing people, being a parent. your capacity for what you think you can handle just grows 13. nobody prepares you for how 24/7 it is. it just doesn't stop. it trains your mental capacity in a way nothing else does 14. your motivation for everything shifts. health, fitness, work. stuff that used to annoy me i just do now because i know who i'm doing it for 15. one fear i carry: that i'm spending too much time working on something that won't matter and trading away time with my son. he doesn't care how much money i make 16. everyone suddenly has an opinion on how you should raise your kid. you have to know your values and hold them 17. you start understanding what's actually good for humans. clean food, nature, less screens. for a child you really want all of that to be true. it changes how you think about where and how to live 18. the love is 10 orders of magnitude more than anything i've ever felt. some biological switch flips and you can't understand it until it happens to you. i'd heard people talk about it my whole life but nothing prepares you 19. sometimes in the evening when he's asleep i look at pictures from that day and just feel so happy. and every time i realize how much is still ahead. he can't even talk yet. someone said it's the reverse of losing someone. when someone dies you think about all the things you can't do anymore. with a child every day you realize all the things you're about to experience together 20. a child heals you. i don't need to use the word trauma but something shifted on a nervous system level. 100x'd my appreciation for life even with the sleep deprivation 21. i want my son to look up to me for the values i represent. you can't teach a child anything if you're not the example yourself