The whole compliance program.
At the price of the tool.
Platform, AI pentest engine, MDM rollout, auto remediation, and the engineers who run all of it. Same dollar amount you were quoted for an evidence library subscription. The audit, signed.
Compliance is sold two ways. Both leave you doing the work.
Buy a tool, you still write the policies. Hire a consultant, you still write the Terraform. Either way the audit lands on your engineering team and the real cost is double what the invoice shows.
Buy a tool
Vanta · Drata · Secureframe- Dashboard
- Evidence library
- Control mapping
- You write the policies
- You configure the controls
- You hunt the evidence
- You answer the auditor
Hire a consultant
Big 4 · boutique GRC firms- Gap report
- Policy templates
- Risk methodology
- You write the Terraform
- You configure the controls
- You answer the auditor
- Project ends with a deck
Either way the second invoice lands on engineering. We started HSD because the same conversation kept happening on every first call. Six sentences we have heard, almost word for word, from real teams:
“We just lost a $2M deal because procurement asked for SOC 2 and we did not have it.”
“My senior engineer spent the last three sprints on audit screenshots. We missed the launch.”
“We hired a compliance consultant. Six months in, we have a 200 page gap report and no fixes.”
“Our pentest came back with 23 findings. We do not know which ones to fix first or how.”
“We bought a compliance tool. Now I have a dashboard full of red and no team to act on it.”
“The auditor keeps asking for evidence we never collected. We are scrambling weekly.”
Why we ship the work others only describe.
Three structural choices that compound. Each one is hard to copy without rebuilding how the company is run, which is why Vanta and Drata cannot bolt our delivery on later.
We built every layer ourselves.
Evidence platform, AI pentest engine, MDM compliance, auto remediation engine. Most competitors license one or two of these and pay margin upstream. We do not. That is why our price for the whole program is roughly what they charge for the dashboard alone.
AI does the predictable. Engineers do the rest.
Misconfigured S3 buckets, rotated keys, missing CloudTrail. Automation handles those. Architecture redesign, IAM rebuilds, policy authorship. Engineers handle those. Tools have neither layer. Consultants have only the second. Putting both under one bill is what makes the math work.
We bill the outcome, not the hour.
Every engagement is contracted against a passed audit. If the auditor returns findings caused by our work, we remediate at no additional cost. We have not had to. Consultants bill whether you pass or not. We do not.
Six layers. One team. One bill.
The platforms you compare us to license one or two of these. We built all six and run them as a single program.
Every standard
your buyers ask for.
Controls map across frameworks so SOC 2 work compounds your ISO 27001 timeline. One engagement, one team, multiple certifications.
Same budget as the tool. Whole program delivered.
Evidence library, control dashboard, policy templates. Your engineers still write the policies, configure controls and hunt evidence.
Pricing scoped per program. Most engagements land in the same dollar range as a mid market evidence library subscription.
- Everything the platform alone gives you
- Engineers writing policies and configuring controls
- Cloud and infra remediation shipped by us
- Pentest in scope, auditor coordination handled
same budget · different deliverable · the audit, signed
What Vanta and Drata leave you to finish.
comparisons based on publicly available product pages, accurate Q2 2025
Teams that shipped instead of stalled.
“We tried two compliance platforms before HSD. They gave us dashboards. HSD gave us a passed audit.”
VP Engineering
Series B fintech
“What sold me was the first call. Other vendors talked about evidence collection. HSD asked about our IAM model and pointed out three flaws in five minutes.”
CTO
Healthcare SaaS
“PCI DSS and HIPAA in parallel sounded impossible. They mapped overlapping controls so the work compounded instead of doubling.”
Director of Security
Payments platform
Ninety minutes.
A real number. A real date.
Bring us your stack, your target framework, and the deal that triggered the audit. We come back with a gap report and a date you can put on the calendar.