Compliance Infrastructure for Startups

Startups do not need the same controls as a bank. We implement the minimum viable compliance infrastructure that satisfies your target framework. For SOC 2 Type I, that is typically: SSO with MFA, audit logging, encryption at rest and in transit, access reviews, change management via PR, and vulnerability scanning. This covers 80% of controls with 20% of the effort. We add controls incrementally as you grow — not all at once in a 6-month compliance project.

We configure your cloud accounts with secure defaults from day one: encryption enabled by default on all storage services, public access blocked on S3, CloudTrail enabled in all regions, VPC flow logs enabled, default security groups with no inbound rules, and SCPs preventing non-compliant resource creation. These defaults require zero ongoing effort — they just make it impossible to accidentally create non-compliant resources. Most startups get 50+ compliance controls for free with proper defaults.

We replace manual compliance processes with automation wherever possible. Access reviews? Automated script that generates a report from IAM. Change management? Git PRs with required reviews. Vulnerability scanning? Automated in CI/CD. Evidence collection? Scheduled Lambda functions. Incident response? PagerDuty with runbooks. The goal: compliance that runs on autopilot so your engineers ship features instead of filling out compliance spreadsheets.

When you are ready for your SOC 2 audit, we provide: a pre-populated evidence repository with 3 months of collected evidence, a system description document for your auditor, a list of controls with implementation details and evidence mapping, and a compliance dashboard showing current posture. Your auditor engagement goes faster because the evidence is organized, complete, and verifiable. First-time SOC 2 Type I with our infrastructure typically completes in 4-6 weeks instead of 3-6 months.