We speak engineer
Your team works in GitHub, AWS, Datadog, Linear, Slack. Our engineers do too. No friction, no translation layer.
For SaaS companies, Series A → public
IT and security that helps you sell, not slow you down.
For SaaS, IT and security aren't back-office — they're part of the product story. We build the posture your enterprise customers ask about, the answers your sales team needs, and the environment that lets engineering ship without friction.
By the numbers
< 24 hrs
avg customer questionnaire turnaround
100%
audit pass rate (SOC 2 / ISO 27001)
$0
in customer churn from security gaps
30+
enterprise security reviews per quarter
Why we're a fit
We've done this. Many times.
Customer-trust focused
We treat your trust page, security FAQ, and questionnaire library as a product surface — because that's what your buyers do.
Audit-ready continuously
Drata / Vanta / Secureframe wired into your environment, producing evidence as you ship. SOC 2 Type II in 90–120 days.
Production-aware
We integrate with your on-call, your runbooks, your CI/CD. We can be the front-line for your platform pages, not just IT.
Enterprise-grade questionnaire ops
A library of pre-vetted answers. Your AE files a ticket; we deliver a polished response in hours, not weeks.
Ready for the IPO conversation
We've walked clients through pre-IPO IT/security readiness, including SOX ITGC, internal audit, and regulator inquiries.
Their words, not ours
What clients in your shoes have said.
"Our enterprise sales cycle dropped 32% after Athena rebuilt our trust page and questionnaire library. Real revenue, not theater."
"Their team is the first IT partner that actually understood our deploy pipeline. Our engineers stopped working around them."
"Athena answered a 400-question enterprise questionnaire in two business days. Our largest deal closed because of it."
Typical scope
What we usually run for clients like you.
Not a fixed package — a starting point. We tailor every engagement.
Customer trust posture
- Public trust page & security FAQ
- Pre-built questionnaire library (CAIQ, SIG, custom)
- Subprocessor list & DPA template management
- Annual SOC 2 Type II + ISO 27001
- Real-time status page integration
Cloud & production
- AWS / Azure / GCP landing zone & guardrails
- IaC baseline (Terraform / Pulumi)
- 24/7 cloud monitoring & on-call
- CSPM / CIEM / IaC scanning
- Backup & DR with quarterly drills
Identity & dev tooling
- SSO / MFA across every tool
- CI/CD secrets management
- GitHub / GitLab governance
- Just-in-time access (PIM / privileged access)
- Service-to-service identity federation
Application security partnership
- SAST / DAST / SCA toolchain
- Annual penetration test + remediation
- Bug bounty program coordination
- Secure coding training (curated, short)
- Threat-modeling support for new features
Compliance program
- SOC 2 Type II year-round
- ISO 27001 / ISO 27701
- HIPAA / HITRUST when applicable
- PCI DSS for payment-touching workloads
- GDPR / CCPA / DPDP / LGPD posture
Enterprise sales support
- Named questionnaire respondent
- Live security calls with prospects (under your name)
- Custom DPA & rider negotiation
- Subprocessor due-diligence on request
- Pre-IPO readiness program
Common questions
Top questions from saas companies.
Don't see yours? Ask us anything — we answer real emails personally.
Can you respond to customer security questionnaires for us?
Yes — and we're fast. We maintain a library of pre-vetted answers tailored to your environment. Average turnaround for a CAIQ-style questionnaire: 24 hours. For 400+ question enterprise reviews: 2–3 business days.
Will you join sales calls?
Yes. We attend prospect security review calls under your name and email domain. Many of our SaaS clients introduce us as their internal "Director of Security."
Do you replace our engineering security work or partner with it?
Partner. Your engineers own appsec; we handle the surrounding posture: cloud security, identity, customer trust, compliance, IT.
How does pricing work for a SaaS company?
Per-active-employee for IT/help desk. Per-environment for cloud / SOC. Compliance programs are scoped as fixed-price projects with annual run-rate. Typical $200–$400 / employee / month range fully-managed.
Are you a fit for a 1,000-person public SaaS?
Yes — several of our clients are public. We have IPO-grade SOX ITGC programs and run for clients with 1,000+ employees and 25+ countries of operation.
Worth a 30-minute conversation
Let's see if we'd be a great fit for your saas companies.
A discovery call. A written assessment of your top 3 risks. Yours to keep, even if we never work together.