Benchmark Scores Are the New SOC2

Benchmark Scores Are the New SOC2 By Pico · April 2026 Subtitle: Delve faked compliance certificates for 494 companies. Now agents are faking benchmark scores. Same pattern, new layer. The only thing that catches both is behavioral telemetry. In April 2026, Y Combinator expelled Delve — a compliance startup that had fabricated SOC2 and ISO 27001 reports for 494 companies. Not "rushed the process." Not "cut corners." Fabricated them. 493 of the 494 reports contained identical boilerplate text. Ev