Ship fast. Stay audit-ready.

We build continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) foundations — the automated pipelines that test and release your software — so that they produce your SOC 2 and FedRAMP audit evidence as a side effect of shipping.

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SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) is the security audit enterprise customers ask for. FedRAMP (the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program) is the one the US government asks for.

The problem

You can’t prove compliance without good CI/CD. And good CI/CD is useless if you can’t prove it to an auditor or an enterprise customer. Most teams have neither.

Both failures have the same root cause: infrastructure changed by hand. A manual step can’t be proven, repeated, or handed to an auditor. So compliance slows you down, because the evidence gets assembled after the fact — and moving fast breaks compliance, because the fast path skips the controls.

Velocity makes compliance sustainable. Compliance makes velocity safe to ship.

They are not a trade-off. They are the same engineering problem, solved once.

Two ways in

Start wherever it hurts. Not sure which? That is what the fit check is for.

One-time project

CI/CD Foundation

for teams whose deploys are slow, flaky, or scary

From $18,000

typical $18k–35k

Includes

Hardened, locked-down build and release pipelines
All infrastructure defined in code, nothing clicked together by hand
A throwaway preview environment for every change
Passwords and keys managed and rotated for you
A full record of every deploy: who, what, when
One-click rollback and basic monitoring

Outcome

Safe deploys in under 15 minutes
Any developer on the team can ship

What’s included

Monthly

Compliance Retainer

for teams with an enterprise deal or a government contract riding on an audit

Two packages

Baseline

stay compliant month to month: security fixes, access reviews, and audit evidence that keeps itself current

Audit prep

everything in Baseline, plus hands-on preparation when an audit has a date on it

Every retainer includes

Monthly security review, delivered as ready-to-merge changes
Critical vulnerabilities triaged within 24 hours, fixed inside your framework’s remediation window
24-hour response · 4 hours for an outage

See the retainer

How they connect

The Foundation is what makes the Retainer cheap to run: once every change goes through the pipeline, the pipeline can prove every change.

CI/CD Foundation

Every change arrives as code, reviewed and recorded. Nothing reaches production by hand.
Evidence pipeline

The pipeline saves its own proof as it runs — logs and reports in one place, ready to export when an auditor asks.
Compliance Retainer

We keep it green: drift checked monthly, vulnerabilities triaged, access reviewed quarterly.
Audit-ready

The evidence already exists when the auditor asks. The same process carries SOC 2, FedRAMP, and Department of Defense (DoD) Impact Levels 2–5.

Why not hire for this?

You can. A senior platform engineer who knows compliance is one of the hardest hires in the market, takes months to find, and costs a full salary every year after the work is built.

With us you get that seniority for the build, a fraction of the cost to keep it running, and a system your own developers can operate — not a person you have to keep busy once it’s done.

Async by default: written updates and recorded walkthroughs, so nobody sits in extra meetings. One focused track at a time, so the thing you are paying for is the thing being worked on.

How we work

Proof

What an auditor actually sees. Redacted, because the originals belong to the clients who paid for them. On the fit check we walk one of these live.

pipeline jobs: 17
stages: 5
controls traced: 10
STIG rules passed: 63
failed, published: 8

evidence pipeline

17 automated jobs. Every passing check names the control it satisfies, and the whole set lands as one downloadable evidence file

validate 5
- Source checkout
- Pipeline hardening checkCC7.1
- Infrastructure-as-code validationCC8.1
- Secrets scanCC6.2
- Test environment setup
static scan 6
- Dependency vulnerability scanCC7.1
- Infrastructure misconfiguration scanCC6.1
- Policy-as-code evaluationCC6.3
- Static code analysisCC7.1
- Software bill of materialsCC7.1CC8.1
- Vulnerability matchingCC7.1
live infrastructure 4
- Audit-trailed deployCC8.1
- Rollback and monitoring baselineA1.2
- Live configuration assessmentCC6.1CC6.6
- Deploy policy checkCC6.1CC6.7CC8.1
DoD compliance 1
- DoD host benchmarkCC7.1A1.2
emit evidence 1
- Package evidence
evidence-2026-05-13.zip

control inventory

Ten controls, each traced back to the job that proved it — nothing written up after the fact

10 / 10 traced

control	emitted by
CC6.1	misconfiguration scanlive configuration assessment
CC6.2	secrets scan
CC6.3	policy-as-code evaluation
CC6.6	live configuration assessment
CC6.7	audit-trailed deploy
CC7.1	dependency scanvulnerability matchingDoD host benchmark
CC7.2	rollback and monitoring baseline
CC8.1	audit-trailed deploy
CC9.2	monthly drift review
A1.2	DoD host benchmark

server hardening

A Department of Defense security benchmark run against a server: 63 passed, 8 failed, broken out by severity — published, not hidden

Rule results DISA STIG · 71 evaluated

passed 63
failed 8

Failed, by severity of 8

high 2

medium 6

drift, fixed

A firewall rule that drifted out of compliance, caught, fixed and merged. The merge record is the audit evidence

caughtHIGH · firewall rule in sg.tf open to 0.0.0.0/0
fixedSSH scoped to a trusted management CIDR
mergedreviewer approval, timestamped · control CC6.1
re-scanned0 high · 0 critical

one method, many audits

One set of evidence mapped across four compliance frameworks at once

register	SOC 2	NIST 800-53	FedRAMP	DoD IL2–5
control walk10 SCF controls	10 / 10mapped	10 / 10mapped	not read	not read
cloud scan1 run	17requirements	177requirements	45requirements	not read
host benchmark1 datastream	CC7.1 · A1.2controls	not read	not read	63 / 8STIG pass / fail
one checkS3 object versioning	4criteria	17controls	5controls	not read

From the crosswalk on the proof page · FedRAMP read at Moderate rev 4 · DoD read at the host layer

See the artifacts

Who we are

The people who scope the work are the ones who approve it. No account managers between the call and the code — the engineer who sized your project signs off on every change that ships under it.

Eight years building infrastructure inside federal security boundaries, from healthcare.gov to aerospace. What you are buying is that judgment, and it has a name on it.

No stock photos.

Who you get

The house behind it

Standard Automata is the compliance and platform practice of Automata International, the company you contract with. Its sister practices build business automation and private AI on the same foundation.

Meet the house

Book a 30-minute fit check

Ten minutes of us showing you something real we built or fixed. Twenty minutes on your pipeline and your compliance deadline — and a straight answer on what you need, including when the answer is nothing from us.

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