What does SOC-2 readiness look like for a 20-person team?

Most controls are about evidence collection, not new tools. We instrument what you have, document the policies you already follow informally, and close gaps without buying enterprise tooling sprawl. AgoraData hit Type 2 without a fifty-page RFP.

When should we move from Heroku, Render, or Vercel to a real cloud?

When the bill, the compliance ask, or the latency profile says so — not before. Most series-A teams shouldn't be running Kubernetes. Series-B+ with regulated data usually should.

How do you handle incident response for a small engineering team?

An on-call rotation works only if it's two people minimum, with a written runbook, with practiced muscle memory. We set up the rotation, write the runbooks, and run the first three incident drills so it's real, not theoretical. And when two people is one more than you have, we hold the rotation ourselves as managed operations — AIA's six products have run that way, 24/7, for years.

What's the actual scope of 'security'?

Access management, encryption at rest and in flight, audit logging, secret rotation, vulnerability scanning, and a documented response plan for breaches. We do all six. Agencies that say 'security' and mean only the first one are lying.

Platform, DevOps & Security

Keep what you've built running, scaling, and safe, especially when buyers or auditors ask the hard questions.

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01Questions buyers ask

What people actually ask before they hire us.

What does SOC-2 readiness look like for a 20-person team?: Most controls are about evidence collection, not new tools. We instrument what you have, document the policies you already follow informally, and close gaps without buying enterprise tooling sprawl. AgoraData hit Type 2 without a fifty-page RFP.
When should we move from Heroku, Render, or Vercel to a real cloud?: When the bill, the compliance ask, or the latency profile says so — not before. Most series-A teams shouldn't be running Kubernetes. Series-B+ with regulated data usually should.
How do you handle incident response for a small engineering team?: An on-call rotation works only if it's two people minimum, with a written runbook, with practiced muscle memory. We set up the rotation, write the runbooks, and run the first three incident drills so it's real, not theoretical. And when two people is one more than you have, we hold the rotation ourselves as managed operations — AIA's six products have run that way, 24/7, for years.
What's the actual scope of 'security'?: Access management, encryption at rest and in flight, audit logging, secret rotation, vulnerability scanning, and a documented response plan for breaches. We do all six. Agencies that say 'security' and mean only the first one are lying.

02What we deliver

The shape of the work.

Capabilities

Cloud architecture (AWS, GCP)
CI/CD & deploy automation
Observability, incident response & managed on-call
Compliance posture (GDPR, Swiss nDSG, SOC 2 readiness)

How it goes

Week 1Audit
We map your current posture, document the gaps, and score risk. You see what we see.
Weeks 2–4Close the highest-risk gaps
Encryption, access, logging, monitoring. Highest leverage first; nothing performative.
Week 5+Operate
Your team runs it with our runbooks, or we hold the on-call rotation, patching and monitoring as managed operations — the way AIA's six products run around the clock. Quarterly posture reviews either way.

After launch

Posture decays. Someone has to hold it.

Cadence: Patching, dependency and vulnerability scans on every build, and an on-call rotation with drilled runbooks — AIA's six products run 24/7 on that cadence.
Commercial shape: Milestone-priced hardening, then a monthly operations retainer anchored to run cost and incident count — the two numbers AIA's renewal is measured on.
Reviews: A quarterly posture and cost review, with the audit-evidence pack kept current for SOC-2 and buyer security questionnaires.
Hand-off: Infrastructure, secrets and dashboards stay in your accounts with full read access. Take it in-house at any time; AIA and ARTi both hold every key.

03Proof