# Delve

5 Hacker News commenters recommended Delve and 112 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Some users say it worked well, but critics say its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance was fabricated and its audits lacked real independence.

## Why people recommend it

- Reported good results overall (2 comments): "it worked quite well specially when models weren't as good as they are now" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695010)) "Honestly, Delve is great." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46310980))

## What people warn about

- Fabricated compliance and fraud allegations (6 comments): "The specific fraud allegations are bad (lying about US based auditors)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637811)) "someone who sells open source code for millions despite not having a license to do so is almost certainly cheating in other areas as well" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47617489)) "Delve doesn’t even have the ability to claim anything they’ve done as original, unless you count fraud as a service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47635543))
- Templated, identical audit reports (2 comments): "I can't understand a team of engineers PRE-PUBLISHING A TRUST REPORT before a single field has been filled out." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47460706)) "Copy-paste templates. 493 out of 494 leaked SOC 2 reports (99.8%) had identical text, same grammatical errors" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47637087))
- Auditor independence and accreditation doubts (2 comments): "None of their ISO 27001 certificates, aside from the premium one-offs with the vCISO, are accredited by any reputable ISO accreditation body." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47461774)) "Delve is in control of the auditing process in a way that is inappropriate and unusual for this industry." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458827))
- Customers may be less secure (2 comments): "The average delve customer startup might be less secure that the average startup who has to justify their processes to a real auditor." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47614986)) "The leaked excel sheet with customers of Delve is basically a shortlist of targets for hackers to try now." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611415))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Vanta](https://hackerapproved.com/p/vanta.md): 12 recommend
- [Drata](https://hackerapproved.com/p/drata.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://delve.co/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Delve", https://hackerapproved.com/p/delve/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).