Your SOPs exist. The proof that they are current, approved, and acknowledged does not.
SOP Studio is the controlled workflow between your SOPs and your auditors. Draft faster, route reviews, track acknowledgments, and export the evidence — without rebuilding the story every audit cycle.
The problem
The hardest part of SOP work is not writing one. It is everything after.
Teams discover their SOP program is broken three weeks before an auditor asks a normal question — and the answer takes two days to assemble.
SOPs scattered across drives, docs, and inboxes
Three different "current" versions in three different places. No one trusts any of them.
Reviews slip because ownership is informal
"QA" owns the SOP. Which means no one does. Annual reviews lapse and no one notices until audit prep.
Acknowledgments live in a separate spreadsheet — or nowhere
New version goes out. Old acknowledgments stay valid. The proof you need does not exist.
Audit prep means rebuilding the story from scratch
Two days of work to assemble what should take ten minutes. Every audit. Every time.
Why we built this
Built by operators who got tired of rebuilding SOP programs from scratch.
SOP Studio comes from McBix Consultants, a process improvement and change management firm that lives inside system rollouts. We saw the same SOP breakdown at every engagement and built the system we wished existed.
We kept seeing the same breakdown
Every system rollout — HRIS migration, EHR implementation, workforce management overhaul — hit the same wall. SOPs scattered, reviews lapsed, acknowledgments in a separate spreadsheet, no audit trail.
We fixed it manually. Every time.
McBix Consultants has been rebuilding SOP programs inside live engagements for years. We stood up ownership models, enforced review cycles, built acknowledgment tracking in whatever tool the client had. It worked — but we started from zero every time.
So we built the system we wished existed
SOP Studio is the productized version of what we have been doing in the field. Governed workflows, structured review cadence, staff acknowledgment with audit trail, framework mapping, and AI-assisted drafting — purpose-built for teams between 50 and 500 people.
What it does
One controlled workflow from draft to audit evidence.
AI-assisted drafting
Describe the procedure in plain English or upload an existing document. Get a structured SOP with purpose, scope, numbered steps, warnings, and references — then route it through real review.
Controlled review and approval
Defined approval chains. Timestamped records. One canonical "current" version. No more parallel copies in three drives.
Acknowledgment tracking
Capture acknowledgment at go-live, not in audit-prep mode. New version published? Prior acknowledgments invalidate automatically. Pull a "who acknowledged what version, when" report in under a minute.
Review cadence with real alerts
Stated review dates per SOP, on a calendar, with automatic owner alerts before they slip. Overdue reviews are visible — not buried.
Framework mapping and evidence
27 frameworks built in — HIPAA, SOC 2, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, HITRUST, CMMC, HACCP, and more. Map SOPs to controls, see coverage gaps, export the evidence packet.
Point-in-time audit export
For any SOP, produce a single evidence packet: current version, approval record, acknowledgment list, last review, control mapping. Auditor asks; you respond in minutes.
27 compliance frameworks built in
Map SOPs to your specific standard. See coverage. Export the evidence.
Proof
The same governance discipline McBix uses in the field, productized.
SOP Studio runs the playbook we have used inside HRIS migrations, EHR rollouts, and compliance engagements. The audit-readiness checklist below is the same one we use to assess client SOP programs before we start the rebuild.
Free assessment
SOP audit-readiness checklist
40-point scoring rubric across inventory, version control, approvals, acknowledgment, review cadence, framework mapping, and evidence. Takes 15 minutes. Tells you exactly where your program will fail an audit.
Get the checklistWorkflow teardown
Bring one audit-critical SOP. We map the gaps.
A live 30-minute walkthrough where we map the current review path, acknowledgment gaps, and evidence burden on one of your SOPs — then show what changes inside SOP Studio. No pitch, no pressure.
Book a teardownPricing
Simple plans. Start where you are.
Monthly pricing shown. Annual saves 20%. Guided trial available on Starter and Growth.
Starter
Prove the system works with your first SOPs.
- ✓5 authors
- ✓25 SOPs
- ✓1 framework
- ✓10 reader seats
Growth
Most teamsFull platform for audit-driven teams.
- ✓15 authors
- ✓Unlimited SOPs
- ✓All 27 frameworks
- ✓50 reader seats
Enterprise
SSO, integrations, SLAs, and rollout support.
- ✓Unlimited authors
- ✓SSO / SAML
- ✓Custom integrations
- ✓Dedicated support
See how one audit-critical SOP looks inside a controlled workflow.
Bring the SOP you are most worried about. 30 minutes. We map the gaps and show what changes. If it is not a fit, we will tell you.