Starbase, Texas
You’re Building Hardware That Goes to Space.
Your Software Has to Match.
Starbase is home to the most scrutinized rocket program on the planet. The supply chain vendors, contractors, and service companies supporting that ecosystem face compliance demands most dev shops have never seen. We build the software that handles them.
Your Supplier Portal Skipped the Security Review
SpaceX has 350+ active suppliers. If your platform handles CUI or touches the supply chain, CMMC is not a future problem. It is today’s problem.
Your Offshore Dev Team Has Production Access
Data sovereignty is not negotiable for DoD-adjacent work. The moment controlled data leaves US jurisdiction, you have a problem that a contractor agreement cannot fix.
Your Systems Cannot Keep Up With Launch Cadence
SpaceX is pushing toward 25 launches a year. Every vendor in the ecosystem absorbs that pace. If your operations tech cannot scale with it, you become a bottleneck.
The Risks Nobody Talks About Until It’s Too Late
01
Vibe Coding Works Until the FAA Wants Traceability
AI-generated code ships fast and looks fine until a regulatory review asks for an audit trail that does not exist. The FAA and DoD do not grade on effort. If your codebase cannot demonstrate who wrote what, when, and why, that is a gap no explanation closes.
02
The Cheapest Dev Team May Cost You a Contract
CMMC Level 2 violations carry fines per record and can disqualify you from DoD contracting entirely. One offshore contractor touching controlled data and the math on that hourly savings falls apart fast.
03
Your Internal Tools Were Not Built for This Scale
When Starbase was a test site, your ops tools kept up. Now it is a city with an expanding launch schedule and a growing supplier network. Custom software built for a smaller operation tends to break quietly, not loudly.
04
Compliance Is Continuous, Not Annual
CMMC, ITAR, FAA Part 450, SOC 2 — these are not renewal checkboxes. Every new integration, every new team member, every infrastructure change creates a potential gap. Most companies we talk to are surprised at how many they have accumulated.
05
Cyber Underwriters Are Reading Your Commit History Now
If your production codebase includes AI-generated features with no review trail and no documented controls, a claim denial is a real outcome. Insurers are asking technical questions and the old fill-out-a-form approach is gone.
06
The Manual Workflows Are Hiding Your Real Costs
Tourism, hospitality, and local service businesses around Starbase are growing faster than their back-office operations. Manual scheduling, disconnected booking systems, and paper-based vendor management are operational drag that compounds every quarter.
Built for the Companies That Keep This City Running
Boca Chica is no longer a quiet stretch of South Texas coast. It is an industrial aerospace hub
with a supply chain, a tourism economy, and a growing resident workforce. We build software for every layer of it.
Aerospace Supply Chain & Vendors
SpaceX Suppliers and Defense Contractors
SpaceX works with more than 350 suppliers across the South Texas region, and that number is growing with every launch cadence increase. If your company touches a DoD or NASA contract, CMMC and ITAR obligations do not stop at your front door. They extend into every supplier portal, every document handoff, and every API that passes controlled data. One gap in your compliance chain and you are not just risking a failed audit, you are risking the contract itself. We build and maintain the systems that survive the assessment, and the re-assessment after that.
Space Tourism & Hospitality
South Padre Island, Launch Tourism, and the Regional Experience Economy
South Padre Island has seen a surge in bookings tied to launch events, and that demand is not going away. Tour operators, fishing guides, vacation rental managers, and boutique hotels are scaling faster than their software can handle. One launch window announcement and your booking system either performs or it doesn’t. Manual availability updates, fragmented guest communications, and ad spend with no attribution tracking are problems that compound at this volume. We build the booking infrastructure, inventory tools, and analytics systems that turn launch-driven traffic into repeatable revenue.
Logistics & Port Operations
Brownsville Ship Channel and Regional Distribution
The Port of Brownsville is one of the only deepwater ports in the United States and serves as a critical logistics hub for SpaceX materials and South Texas cross-border trade. But the operators managing this freight volume are often running systems that were patched together over years of incremental growth. TMS platforms that do not talk to each other. Customs data living in spreadsheets. Vendor coordination handled through email chains. Legacy systems that were not built for this volume are a liability at this scale. We go into those environments, map what exists, and build the integrations and data pipelines that should have been there from the start.
Local Services & Small Business
The Rio Grande Valley’s Growing Commercial Base
Starbase’s growth is lifting the broader Cameron County economy, and it is creating software needs that most local businesses are not ready for. Construction companies managing new contract volume. Staffing firms handling workforce surges. Healthcare providers absorbing new patient populations. Retail operators competing for a customer base that did not exist five years ago. One misconfigured billing system, one scheduling platform that cannot scale, one HIPAA violation from a system nobody audited, and growth becomes a liability instead of an opportunity. We scope, build, and support software that fits the actual scale and budget of a South Texas business.
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
ITAR
International Traffic in Arms Regulations for any export-controlled tech or data
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 |
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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.
