About

By startup engineers, for startup engineers.

We've spent years inside startups and built infrastructure from an empty cloud account more than once. You have to ship fast. With the right help, you don't have to give up security to do it.

How we think about security

Not a fortress. Backstops.

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Only a lock

Get past it, take everything.

A house with only a lock: once someone is through the door, nothing else stands in the way. No one sees them, the valuables sit in the open, and no one is home. In infrastructure, that's one login with broad access.

Add cameras

See what happened.

Logs and alerts that your team owns, so a problem gets noticed and you can see exactly what it touched.

Add a safe

Lock up what matters most.

Secrets live in a secrets manager and customer data sits behind its own roles, so getting through the door isn't getting everything.

Someone home

Someone who responds.

Two owners on your team, with runbooks and break-glass access, ready to act.

The whole system

Same break-in, different ending.

The intruder is seen at the door, can't open the safe, and someone responds. No single layer has to be perfect; together they make breaking in more trouble than it's worth. Not Fort Knox.

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How we work

Fast and isolated, one increment at a time.

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Start small

The smallest useful foundation.

Separate production and staging, single sign-on, one pipeline. Useful early, then built on.

Increments

Ship it the way you ship product.

MVP first, then iterate. Each milestone delivers something your team can use on its own.

Isolated from the start

Every piece lands in its own compartment.

New pieces arrive permissioned and isolated. Agents get their own space, and data gets its own roles.

Both

Speed and security, together.

You keep shipping the whole time. You build fast, and you build it permissioned and isolated.

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Who builds it

Abdul Rabbani

Every build is designed and led by Abdul, an infrastructure and security engineer who has spent years on early teams where shipping fast was the job.

In person in New York · remote across the US

  • Years inside startups

    Early teams in trading, crypto and data, where speed, money and reliability all mattered at once.

  • Built from the ground up

    Foundations built from an empty cloud account, more than once, then handed to the team that runs them.

  • Fast, without the shortcuts

    Startups have to build fast. Doing it with least privilege and isolation from the first commit is what keeps that speed later.

  • Agents, safely in the loop

    Has run AI agents against a whole stack in isolated, logged environments, so they can do real work without real reach.

Next step

Talk it through.

The consultation is free. You leave with a plan your team can build from.