How AltiusHub Built Scalable Compliance to Win Enterprise Trust in Regulated Pharma Markets

AltiusHub is a supply-chain traceability platform for pharmaceutical and life sciences organizations, enabling serialization, track-and-trace, warehouse operations, and regulatory reporting across multiple countries. The platform safeguards patient safety by ensuring every unit of medicine can be traced through the supply chain, helping prevent counterfeits and supporting effective recall management.

As AltiusHub began onboarding global enterprise customers operating under strict regulations, compliance certification became a prerequisite for closing deals and scaling across regions.

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~50% Audit readiness achieved within 4 weeks

2 months saved To complete back-to-back ISO 27001 & SOC 2 Type 2 audits

upto 60% audit preparation effort reduced

Before Sprinto

After Sprinto

Compliance was manual and spreadsheet-driven, requiring constant coordination across teams to keep things on track.

Compliance became automated and continuous, with Sprinto handling control tracking and evidence collection in the background

Audit preparation was reactive and resource-heavy, consuming weeks of effort before every review cycle.

Audit preparation effort reduced by ~50–60%, with real-time dashboards showing exactly where gaps remain

The team spent ~10–12 hours per week on compliance tasks like evidence gathering, policy tracking, and follow-ups.

Weekly compliance effort dropped to ~3–4 hours, giving the team room to focus on higher-impact strategic priorities

“Before Sprinto, a lot of our effort went into manual tracking and follow-ups across teams. It worked, but it took focus away from higher-impact work.”

– Naveen Pogaku,

Associate Director – Engineering, AltiusHub

“With Sprinto, we have continuous visibility and far less manual overhead. That gives us the confidence to stay focused on business-critical priorities while remaining audit-ready.”

– Naveen Pogaku,
Associate Director – Engineering, AltiusHub

Introduction

AltiusHub operates at the intersection of pharmaceutical supply chains and patient safety. It enables serialization, end-to-end track-and-trace, warehouse operations, and regulatory reporting for life sciences companies across global markets. Tracing every unit of medicine is critical to preventing counterfeits and protecting patients. That makes data integrity and system reliability non-negotiable.

That responsibility only deepened as AltiusHub moved into enterprise engagements. Customers in this space operate under frameworks like 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11, where security and compliance aren’t just expectations but prerequisites that begin at the vendor assessment stage.

The Problem

AltiusHub had invested early in core security and governance controls, putting in place access management, documented policies, and operational procedures well before its first formal audit. However, the processes behind those controls were largely manual. Compliance relied on spreadsheets and shared documents, with close coordination across teams needed to track controls and collect evidence whenever an audit or a customer security review arose.

This approach worked in the short term, but it was resource-intensive and unsustainable as the company grew. Evidence collection and control tracking were the most difficult areas, followed closely by policy acknowledgments and consistent security training. Manual compliance tracking alone was consuming roughly 10–12 hours per week across teams. This was valuable time that could have gone toward product development and customer delivery. Moreover, maintaining real-time visibility became difficult, and manual coordination introduced unnecessary risk.

AltiusHub has always operated with lean teams and a strong bias toward high-impact execution, so the leadership team recognized early that compliance could not become a repetitive drain on engineering and operations bandwidth. Therefore, they made a conscious decision to invest proactively in a purpose-built compliance platform before the problem compounded.

The Solution

TAltiusHub set out to build a compliance engine that could keep pace with the company’s rapid growth without ballooning headcount or slowing down product delivery. The team needed a platform intuitive enough for broad adoption across a lean organization, backed by deep automation that could replace the manual chase of evidence and control tracking. AltiusHub chose Sprinto to make that happen.

The first step was consolidating their entire control environment for both ISO 27001 and SOC 2 into a single system. AltiusHub replaced scattered spreadsheets with Sprinto’s automated control mapping, giving the team a unified view of every control and its status. From there, the team eliminated the most time-consuming part of audit preparation by leveraging Sprinto’s continuous evidence collection in the background, automatically capturing and organizing audit artifacts that previously required hours of manual coordination.

That foundation gave AltiusHub real-time visibility into compliance health. The team then configured Sprinto’s monitoring and alerting to flag control failures the moment they occurred, so they could act on issues proactively rather than discover them during audit prep. AltiusHub also extended this visibility to its vendor ecosystem, devices, and cloud infrastructure through Sprinto’s continuous risk coverage, which proved especially critical given the sensitivity of pharmaceutical supply-chain data.
On the people side, AltiusHub standardized security practices across the organization by rolling out Sprinto’s integrated policy management and role-based training modules. This meant every new team member was aligned on security training and expectations from day one, without requiring manual oversight or repeated follow-ups.

The result was a fundamental shift in AltiusHub’s approach to compliance. The team turned what had been a manual, resource-intensive process into a proactive, continuously running operation in the background.

Impact

AltiusHub moved from implementation to audit readiness at remarkable speed. Within four weeks of deploying Sprinto and assigning clear control ownership, the team reached approximately 50% readiness for both ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2. Because Sprinto’s real-time dashboards showed exactly where gaps remained, the team was able to systematically close them.

Within two months, AltiusHub completed back-to-back ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type 2 audits with zero findings across both. For a company going through formal compliance audits for the first time, that outcome validated the decision to invest early in a structured, automation-driven approach.

The operational gains were equally significant. Manual compliance effort dropped from roughly 10–12 hours per week to just 3–4 hours per week, with the team now channeling recovered bandwidth into more strategic priorities rather than repetitive tracking and follow-ups. Audit preparation effort also saw an approximate 50–60% reduction, as Sprinto’s continuous evidence collection and real-time dashboards streamlined operations.

Today, AltiusHub manages its entire information security compliance program with a lean team of just two members, staying audit-ready at all times through Sprinto’s continuous monitoring and automated evidence collection. Enterprise security reviews no longer require dedicated preparation cycles or pull resources away from the product.

That shift has had a direct commercial impact as well. With recognized frameworks in place, security conversations with enterprise prospects now center on how AltiusHub supports customers at scale rather than whether it meets baseline requirements. Regulatory readiness builds confidence earlier in the evaluation process, and security reviews during sales cycles have become more structured and predictable, enabling smoother progression through RFPs across multi-region deployments.