SaaS + Technology
Compliance for SaaS companies selling into serious buyers.
The moment your buyer has a procurement department, your compliance program becomes part of the product.
What shows up
The requirements arrive in a predictable order.
Enterprise procurement
A deal reaches legal and security review, and the timeline suddenly depends on documents nobody has written.
SOC 2
A report becomes a condition of the contract, often with less notice than the work realistically requires.
Security questionnaires
Long spreadsheets arrive from multiple customers, asking overlapping questions in incompatible formats.
Customer trust
Existing accounts renew with expanded security terms, annual reviews, and new attestation requests.
Vendor risk
Your customers ask about your subprocessors, and your own vendor list turns out to be undocumented.
Data protection
Questions about retention, deletion, residency, encryption, and access reach further into the architecture than expected.
The founder tax.
In most SaaS companies at this stage, compliance is absorbed by the two or three people least able to spare the time: a founder, the CTO, and whoever is closest to the customer relationship.
It is not visible on any roadmap. It shows up as a slower release, a delayed hire, or a founder spending a Sunday reconstructing an access review.
22 takes that work. Your engineers stay involved where their knowledge is genuinely required and nowhere else.
HITRUST
Selling into healthcare?
Technology companies don't need to be healthcare providers themselves to encounter HITRUST. SaaS, data, infrastructure, and other technology vendors can face HITRUST requirements when they become part of their customers' risk and assurance ecosystem.
Common questions
At what stage do SaaS companies usually need this?
We already use a compliance platform. What do you add?
Can you work with our engineering team without slowing them down?
Keep the roadmap. Give up the compliance work.
Tell us what your buyers are asking for. We will tell you what it takes to answer it well.