A product that has to survive its first enterprise customers, a runway that has to last, and a codebase investors will read.

The prototype won the pilot and now the first real customer is asking about SSO, isolation, audit and uptime. The foundations that cannot be added later go in first; everything else is built in fortnightly increments, in your own accounts from day one.

Single sign-on, role-based access, tenant isolation, an immutable audit log, data residency and an incident process, built into the product, and a questionnaire answered from evidence rather than the roadmap. ISO 27001, SOC 2 or Cyber Essentials readiness where a customer requires it.

An independent, fixed-price assessment of the code, the infrastructure, the security and the team, with findings ranked by risk and the cost to fix each, so the founder knows what the investor will find before the data room opens. Also delivered for investors and acquirers.

The credits end, the bill arrives, and gross margin turns out to depend on it. Cost measured per customer and per feature, usage-priced services that cost almost nothing when idle, reserved capacity where load is predictable, and a monthly report the board can read.

A team embedded with yours or run in-house at Hexploits, on a monthly retainer you can scale up or down on 30 days’ notice, or a fixed price per phase. A written report every week and a working demonstration every fortnight, so the founder always knows where the money went.

A fractional CTO for a set number of days a month, accountable to the board: architecture decisions, supplier management, hiring the first engineers, security and budget, with the wider Hexploits team behind them for specialist questions.

Onboarding, billing reconciliation, support and the investor update often run on Sheets because every engineer is on the product. Turned into small systems with automation, so the operations scale with revenue and the founder stops being the integration layer.

A first product that survives its first enterprise customers, in your own accounts from day one.

SSO, audit trails, tenant isolation and a security questionnaire answered from evidence.

An independent, fixed-price assessment for a round, an acquisition, or a founder who wants to know first.

Right-sizing, reserved capacity and architecture changes that reduce the bill without reducing resilience.

Multi-step automations that call your systems under policy, with rate limits, approvals and an immutable log.

Automated tests and pipelines so releases are routine rather than an event.

The processes the business runs on Excel and email, turned into systems with automation, one at a time.

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