“Our philosophy is to use the best tool for the job. With Vanta, Eight Sleep can stay focused on sleep performance."
TL;DR
- Challenge: As Eight Sleep scaled, the team wanted third-party validation of their security practices and a centralized system to maintain clear process ownership—without diverting engineering bandwidth from core product development.
- Solution: Eight Sleep adopted Vanta for SOC 2 and continuous monitoring, gaining external attestation and a single system of record for security that grows with the company.
- ROI: Freed engineering bandwidth for sleep technology and gave leadership confidence that process gaps won't go unmitigated as the company scales.
The company
The world's first sleep fitness company
Eight Sleep is a consumer health technology company on a mission to fuel human potential through optimal sleep. Its flagship product, the Pod, uses proprietary AI and machine learning to deliver personalized temperature regulation, sleep tracking, and health insights. Founded in 2014 and backed by a roster of elite athletes and performance-focused consumers, Eight Sleep sits at the intersection of hardware, software, and clinical research.
The challenge
Taking a strong security program to the next level
For a company whose product lives in customers' bedrooms, trust isn't a differentiator; it's the foundation the business stands on. As Eight Sleep scaled, Max wanted third-party validation and a centralized system that could grow with them.
“I am the customer who wants this attestation,” says Massimo ("Max") Andreasi Bassi, CTO & Co-Founder, Eight Sleep. “I want to have a team of external experts auditing what I do, to make sure I'm not missing anything."
Eight Sleep's pivot point: As the team scaled, Max wanted a single place where process ownership was clear, every workflow was traceable, and external auditors could validate the program. Maintaining that visibility internally would mean diverting engineering time from sleep technology.
Why Eight Sleep chose Vanta: Max believes in using the best tool for the job, so he polled his CTO network on which platform to use. The answer was consistent: Vanta.
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The Vanta impact
Establishing a company-wide system of record for security
Max came to Vanta as much for guidance as for tooling—not just to check a compliance box, but to learn the right way to structure evidence and build a program that would hold up as Eight Sleep scaled. What he got was SOC 2 attestation and an operational backbone that brought existing security processes into a single, auditable system.
Tactically, offboarding now runs end-to-end in Vanta, vulnerability SLA tracking drove a company-wide initiative to replace all container images across their services, and Slack integration keeps process ownership routed to the right people automatically.
In addition to tactical improvements, three things changed for good:
- Risk mitigation: Max's primary measure of ROI isn't hours saved—it's decreasing the likelihood that something goes wrong in the first place
- Engineering bandwidth: Time that had gone toward building and maintaining internal compliance infrastructure was redirected to sleep technology
- Centralized visibility: Leadership can confirm that every process is running and owned, even as the team grows and roles change
As Eight Sleep expands into new markets and regulatory requirements, Vanta is already positioned to grow with them—without rebuilding the program from scratch.
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