Compliance Retainer
Stay audit-ready, every month.
Who it’s for
- Startups closing enterprise deals. A big customer wants your SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) report before they sign, and you need to get there and stay there.
- Government contractors. You hold, or are working toward, a FedRAMP authorization or a Department of Defense Impact Level (IL2–IL5), and the boundary has to stay defensible between assessments.
- Teams without a compliance engineer. You have one or two developers who can review and merge changes, and nobody whose job is keeping the controls green.
It is the same system whether your environment is commercial cloud, government cloud, or fully offline. The framework changes; the mechanism does not.
The menu
One retainer, priced to what you actually need. Core services come in every retainer. Add what fits your situation — we itemize it on your quote once we understand your stack, so there are no surprises later.
Core
In every retainer
- One active compliance track at a time — SOC 2, FedRAMP, or a DoD Impact Level
- Monthly security review, delivered as ready-to-merge pull requests
- Critical vulnerabilities (CVEs) triaged within 24 hours, and fixed inside your framework’s remediation window
- Evidence pipeline kept running, so audit proof collects itself
- Quarterly review of who has access to what
- 24-hour response · 4 hours for a severity-1 outage
Starting at $5,000 /mo
Add as you need it
Each adds to the monthly or is quoted as a project
- Audit prep — hands-on preparation when an audit has a date on it: the SOC 2 evidence pack, control mapping, and system security plan (SSP) support
- Live auditor support — we join the calls with your assessor
- New builds and migrations — new infrastructure, a cloud move, or a second environment
- Private AI search (Compliant RAG) — an AI assistant that answers from your own documents, with access controls an assessor will accept
- Extended coverage — tighter response times or after-hours support
What you are actually buying
Most compliance programs are a binder of policies that slowly stops matching reality. Ours are code. The security controls your auditor checks — from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 and 800-171 catalogs — are built into the infrastructure itself, so the system and the paperwork can’t drift apart.
| least privilege | Everyone and everything gets only the access it needs, enforced by the architecture rather than a policy memo |
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| one place to look | Logs, metrics and traces in a single searchable store |
| evidence on demand | When the auditor asks, you export the proof. Nobody spends a week screenshotting consoles |
| changes as pull requests | Every fix we make arrives as a reviewed change your team can read, approve, and keep |
How we start
| 1 | Fit check — free, 30 minutes. A short demo of real work, then your stack and your deadline |
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| 2 | Quote — the core retainer plus anything you need from the add-on list, itemized |
| 3 | Retainer begins. Thirty days’ notice, both directions |
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.