Your Product, Ready for Security Review
SOC 2 and HIPAA readiness for products whose next deal waits on a security review. Compliance platforms track the controls; we build them into the system: access control, audit trails, encryption, tests and a supported stack. A senior engineer reads the system first, in a free audit. Then we fix what the review will find at a fixed price, while your product keeps running.
- Cleared vendor security review
- 95%+ coverage on core business logic
- A free 30-minute call
- A free audit against the review
- The fixes, at a fixed price
- 3-month warranty; the code is yours
If This Sounds Familiar
Security reviews rarely fail on the policy documents. They fail on what the system can’t show: who reached what, what changed and when, and whether the stack is still supported.
“A security questionnaire is blocking the deal.”
Half the answers are “partly,” and the customer’s security team reads that as “no.”
“The auditor wants evidence the system can’t produce.”
No audit trail, shared admin accounts, and access nobody can fully account for.
“Our compliance platform keeps flagging the same controls.”
The dashboard shows what’s missing, and nobody has built it into the code.
“Our stack is out of support, and the review found it.”
End-of-life versions turn into findings, and upgrading them touches everything.
What People Try, and Where It Breaks
What changed: security questionnaires now reach vendors of every size, and SOC 2 has become the default ask. The policy side can be templated. The controls inside the system can’t: someone has to build them into the code.
| What people try | Right when | Where it breaks |
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| Answer the questionnaire as best you can | The gaps are small and honest answers still pass. | A “yes” the system can’t back up becomes an audit finding, or worse, an incident. |
| Buy a compliance platform | Tracking policies, controls and evidence across the audit window. | It monitors controls; it doesn’t build MFA, an audit trail or tests into your code. |
| Commission a penetration test | Finding vulnerabilities in a system that’s otherwise in shape. | The report lists what’s wrong, and someone still has to fix the code. Most review findings aren’t vulnerabilities at all. |
| Rebuild before the audit | The foundation can’t carry the controls at all. | The deal can’t wait for a rebuild, and most systems pass after targeted hardening. |
How It Works
We read the system against the review before we fix anything. A free 30-minute call settles which bar you’re facing; the audit shows what the reviewer will find; the fixes follow, in order. You can stop after any step.
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A 30-minute call
Free, with a senior engineer: which review, audit or regime you’re facing, what’s already in place, and whether an audit is the right next step. No code access, no preparation.
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The audit
A senior engineer reads your code, infrastructure and delivery process against what the questionnaire or auditor will ask. You get a written report, the gaps ranked by what blocks the deal, and a fix sequence. Free, for now; the report is yours either way.
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The fixes
A fixed-price project while your product keeps running: access control and MFA, an audit trail, encryption, supported versions, backups and tests. We answer the auditor’s technical questions; the policies and evidence tracking stay with your compliance platform or auditor.
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After release
A 3-month warranty covers bugs. You own the code, infrastructure, accounts and documentation. We can stay on through the audit window, or hand over to your team.
What You Walk Away With
Access control, MFA, encryption and backups in the code and infrastructure, where a reviewer looks for them, not only in a policy document.
Every “yes” on the questionnaire points to something the system actually does, so the answers hold when the auditor asks to see it.
An audit trail across the system: who reached which data, what changed, and when.
Off end-of-life versions, with automated tests so the upgrades don’t break what already works.
What It Looked Like in Practice
Healthcare start-up
regression safety netAging codebase now facing enterprise security reviews and an end-of-life stack
- coverage on core business logic 0 tests → 95%+
- vendor security review failed → cleared
- of medical data, served without interruption 100s GB / month
TripHero
rebuild deliveryGoal of growing from 6 to 30 hotels in two quarters
- production platform, fixed budget <12 weeks
- audit passed SOC 2
- staff time saved 2+ hrs/day
Who Does the Work
Senior engineers who’ve practiced the same written methodology for over a decade. The engineer who runs your audit stays involved in the work that follows, and you talk to the principals, not a sales team.
Safe to Let Us Into Your Code
- We sign an NDA before any access.
- You grant our access, scope it, read-only where the work allows, and can revoke it at any time.
- Our AI coding tools run only under business terms that exclude training on your code, and only with your approval.
- We carry professional liability and cyber insurance.
- The code, infrastructure and accounts we build or change stay yours.
Questions Buyers Actually Ask
Can you guarantee we pass the audit?
No one honestly can: a SOC 2 report is an auditor’s attestation, and HIPAA is judged on how you operate, not on what you bought. We build the technical controls the audit tests and answer the auditor’s technical questions. A healthcare platform we hardened this way cleared the enterprise vendor security review it had been failing.
Do you write our policies?
No. We build the controls, not the paperwork. Policies and evidence tracking stay with your compliance platform, consultant or auditor, and we work alongside them on the technical side.
SOC 2, HIPAA or a customer’s questionnaire: where do we start?
With the one blocking revenue now. They test many of the same controls, so the audit maps your system against the bar in front of you first, and notes what carries over to the next one.
Can we keep shipping while you fix it?
Yes. The work runs in stages on the live product. That healthcare platform kept serving its clients throughout, and cleared the review that had been blocking it.
How much does it cost?
The call and the audit are free, for now. The fixes are priced off the audit’s findings as a fixed-price project with a 3-month warranty, and nothing obliges you to hire us for them.
Start With a 30-Minute Call — about the review in front of you
A 30-minute call with a senior engineer about the review, what’s already in place and what the deal is waiting on, then the honest next step: the audit, approaches to weigh, or “not a fit,” said out loud.
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