Austin, Texas
Your Stack Is Scaling. Your Risk Is Too.
Austin runs on hypergrowth SaaS, semiconductor fabs, state government systems, and one of the fastest-expanding healthcare networks in the country. We’re the onshore engineering team that keeps it compliant, secure, and running.
Vibe Coding Just Cost a SaaS Startup Their SOC 2
AI-generated code ships fast and looks clean. Until your auditor finds the gap. Or worse, your Series B due diligence does.
Your Offshore Dev Team Has Access to Customer PII
GDPR and SOC 2 don’t care where your contractor is located. If they’re touching user data from overseas, you’re already exposed.
Legacy System Has Been Duct-Taped Together for 11 Years
One bad deployment, one missed dependency update, one new team member and your ops go dark. It’s not a matter of if.
The Risks Nobody Talks About Until It’s Too Late
01
Vibe Coding Is a Security Hole Waiting to Open
Your dev team is using AI to ship faster. That’s fine, until it isn’t. AI-generated code doesn’t get reviewed the way human-written code does. It introduces logic errors, insecure dependencies, and auth gaps that pass code review because nobody fully understands what was generated. When your SOC 2 auditor or cyber insurer looks under the hood, they’re not grading on effort.
02
Offshore Isn’t Cheaper When You Count the Real Cost
The hourly rate looks great. Then you add: timezone delays, miscommunication overhead, re-work cycles, and the moment you realize sensitive data, patient records, financial accounts, logistics manifests left the country. HIPAA violations start at $100 per record. A modest breach at 10,000 records is a $1M problem. Offshore saved you $40/hr.
03
Your Legacy System Is One Change Away From Failure
You’ve been adding to it, patching it, hiring contractors to “just keep it running.” But nobody really knows how all of it fits together anymore. The original dev left years ago. The documentation is a lie. One bad update, one deprecated library, one new integration and you’re not just down. You’re explaining to your clients why their data is inaccessible.
04
Compliance Gaps Don’t Wait for Your Renewal Date
HIPAA, SOC 2, CMMC, PCI-DSS, these aren’t annual checkboxes, they’re continuous requirements. Every new integration, every new team member, every infrastructure change is a potential gap. And the companies we talk to are almost always surprised to learn how many gaps they have. Not because they were careless. Because nobody was watching.
05
Cyber Insurers Are Paying Attention to Your Code Now
The days of filling out a form and getting a policy are over. Underwriters are asking technical questions. Do you have MFA? How is your code reviewed? What’s your incident response plan? If vibe-coded features are in production with no audit trail and no real review, your claim could be denied. Or your premium just tripled.
06
You’re Automating the Wrong Things and Missing the Real Wins
Most teams automate the easy stuff. The hard stuff, legacy workflows, manual data pipelines, cross-system integrations stays manual because nobody wants to touch it. That’s exactly where your operational costs are hiding. We’ve seen companies cut 40+ hours of manual work per week by properly automating the workflows everyone assumed were “too complicated.”
Built for the Companies That Keep This City Running
Austin isn’t just another Texas market. It’s one of the fastest-scaling tech ecosystems in the country
and one of the most compliance-exposed. That’s exactly where we operate best.
Tech & SaaS Companies
Scale Without Burning Down Your Compliance Posture
Austin’s SaaS scene moves fast. From seed-stage startups on South Congress to enterprise platforms in the Domain, the pressure to ship is constant. But speed without security is a liability that shows up at the worst possible time Series B due diligence, enterprise procurement reviews, and SOC 2 audits don’t forgive vibe-coded shortcuts.
Healthcare & Health Systems
St. David’s, Ascension, and a Growing Ecosystem of PHI
Austin’s healthcare network is expanding fast new facilities, new patient portals, new integrations between legacy EHR systems and modern platforms. Each one is a potential PHI exposure point. HIPAA doesn’t care how fast you’re growing. One improperly configured API, one unsecured endpoint, and you’re managing a breach instead of a patient.
Semiconductor & Advanced Manufacturing
Samsung, NXP, Applied Materials and the Supply Chain Behind Them
Austin’s chip and advanced manufacturing sector carries serious data obligations. IP protection, export controls, CMMC requirements for defense-adjacent contracts, and the supply chain integrity expectations of Tier 1 customers. This isn’t the place for offshore contractors or unreviewed AI-generated code touching your production systems.
State Government & Agencies
DIR, HHSC, and the Agencies Running Texas
Texas state agencies operate under strict DIR security standards and public accountability requirements. Outdated systems, manual workflows, and compliance gaps are persistent challenges and the public consequences of a breach or failure are immediate. We build and maintain systems that can withstand the scrutiny.
Fintech & Financial Services
The Capital Factory Crowd and the Banks Behind Them
Austin has become a serious fintech hub. Payment platforms, lending tech, challenger banks, and the credit unions and regional banks that serve a growing metro all of them handling data that regulators, auditors, and attackers are paying close attention to. Your payment flows, account systems, and APIs need to be airtight.
Stop Duct-Taping. Start Automating.
Every patch you add to a 15-year-old system is borrowed time. You know the person who built it is gone. You know nobody fully understands what happens when X triggers Y. You know it’s going to break, you just don’t know when.
We go in, map the thing, document it properly, and build a modernization path that doesn’t take your operations offline. Then we find every manual process that should have been automated five years ago and we fix it.
40+
Hours/week recovered through automation
0
Offshore contractors touching
your data
100%
US-based
engineering team
1
Point of contact who actually
knows your stack
If You Handle Sensitive Data,
You Have Compliance Obligations. Full Stop.
We don’t just build software. We build software that can survive an audit. Whether you’re preparing for SOC 2, maintaining HIPAA posture, or pursuing a DoD contract, we engineer with compliance in the architecture, not bolted on at the end.
HIPAA
Healthcare data, PHI handling, covered entity and BA requirements
SOC 2
Type I & II readiness, security controls, audit trail architecture
CMMC
Defense contractor compliance, CUI handling, DoD supply chain requirements
PCI-DSS
Payment card security, transaction systems, fintech infrastructure
The Comparison Your CFO Needs To See
Offshore looks cheaper until you run the real numbers. Vibe coding looks faster until the auditor shows up.
Here’s what the comparison actually looks like.
Hoyack Core Service |
Hoyack (Onshore) |
Offshore/Vibe Coding |
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HIPAA & compliance-safe code practices |
Built in from day one |
Assumed, rarely verified |
|
Data stays onshore (US soil) |
Guaranteed |
Often unclear or outright no |
|
SOC 2 audit-ready code & logs |
Architected for it |
Retroactive fixes required |
|
Code review by human engineers |
Every commit |
AI-gen code often skipped |
|
Cyber insurance eligibility |
Documented & defensible |
Increasingly at risk |
|
Legacy system knowledge transfer |
Full documentation |
Knowledge walks when contract ends |
|
Real total cost (incl. rework, risk, delay) |
Predictable |
Unpredictable & compounding |
If You’re Not Sure Where Your Gaps Are,
That’s the Problem.
We’ll do a no-pressure technical assessment of your current stack, compliance posture, and automation opportunities. You’ll walk away knowing exactly what’s at risk, and what it takes to fix it.
