Automated Compliance Report Integration
Wiring Rippling's reporting engine into Automated Compliance so monitors could use report-backed evidence instead of waiting on manual uploads.
Overview
Much of the evidence for the workflows we targeted already lives somewhere in Rippling. The hard part is getting it out in a shape a monitor can evaluate and an auditor can understand, without asking a customer to export a spreadsheet. Reports provided the data-access path; Report Integration connected that path to the compliance workflow.
I led the Automated Compliance engineering work to integrate Rippling's reporting engine. A monitor needed to use the report's results as evidence and show a customer which row needed attention and why.
What I built
The core pattern is a monitor pointing at a report template. The template produces structured evidence, and the monitor interprets the result. Non-compliant records surface to the customer with the row and reason attached, without screenshots or CSV round-trips.
Making this reliable meant working outside my team. I owned the Automated Compliance side and partnered with reporting and platform engineers on how report execution connected to monitor behavior. I implemented the product-side changes and proposed lower-level changes to the teams that owned those systems. When an evidence issue originated below Automated Compliance, I traced it to that layer and worked with Reports on the fix.
The report-template playbook changed who could add a report-backed monitor. Before that, new compliance reports depended on a few people who knew the reporting stack well. Afterward, engineers on the team could add a report-backed monitor as routine product work instead of treating it as a special project.
Product helped define which monitor requirements the reports needed to cover. That scope mattered: having data available in a report was useful only if the monitor could turn it into evidence for the requirement being checked.
Outcome
- Report-backed automation became a standard path for covered monitor evidence checks.
- Report-backed monitor automation covered roughly 60% of then-scoped SOC 2 control and evidence requirements.
- New compliance report creation became routine team work instead of specialist handoff.
The integration let us build on reporting capabilities that already existed, while keeping the interpretation of compliance evidence with the product team. Getting those two parts to work together, and making the pattern usable by other engineers, was a substantial part of the work.