In June 2026, Cognition AI highlighted a case in which HR-tech firm MetaviewAI used its autonomous AI engineer "Devin" to complete preparation for a SOC 2 audit—a process that typically takes weeks—in just two days.
June 2026 · Metaview
A SOC 2 audit that took two weeks — done in two days by an AI agent
HR-software firm Metaview ran its annual SOC 2 Type II audit using Devin, Cognition AI's autonomous software engineer — with about 85% of the work completed without any human intervention.
Audit turnaround time
Roughly 7× faster than the typical two-week span
~85%
of audit tasks completed with no human intervention
80%
earlier cut in engineering triage time using the same agent
How the agent worked the audit — a "teach the agent" loop
PLAYBOOK
Prior year's submissions handed to Devin as patterns
→
COLLECT
Screenshots, MFA confirmations, configs & monitors gathered
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VERIFY & UPLOAD
Evidence pushed via Vanta API; remaining tasks flagged for a human
What made it possible
A thin wrapper around Vanta's API plus programmatic access — with CLI prioritized over browser automation.
AWS (eu-west-2)
Git
Terraform
Datadog
Vanta API
Why developers like it
Handing tedious, repetitive compliance and evidence-gathering work to an agent frees engineers for the "interesting" tasks — no novel invention, just teaching the agent existing workflows.
The catch
Automation hinges on programmatic access. Some systems still require human-supplied links or intervention — for those, Devin surfaced direct links and waited.
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