Isn't most of this already in Okta or Entra?

Often, yes. Lifecycle management, group-based app assignment, MFA reporting, and basic access certification all exist natively in the major identity platforms, and if you're licensed for them we'll say so on the call rather than quote a build. Automation earns its place at the seams: SaaS apps with no SCIM support, approvals that need to run in Slack, and evidence that has to be assembled from four systems that don't talk to each other.

Can you get us SOC 2 compliant?

No, and be careful with anyone who says they can. An auditor issues the report, and a platform like Vanta or Drata handles policy and continuous monitoring. What we build is the plumbing underneath: scheduled evidence pulls, access reviews that produce dated sign-off records, approval gates that write an audit log. We design against SOC 2, HIPAA and FINRA control requirements so the artifacts hold up when someone asks how the control operated.

What does an access review build cost, and how long does it take?

Rate is $150 an hour and the bands are published. A single-system review with sign-off capture is Starter work: $900 to $1,800 over one to two weeks. Five or six systems with reminders, escalation, and an evidence store is Workflow, $2,400 to $6,000 over two to four weeks. Project minimum is $2,500. Scoping happens before you pay anything, so the number doesn't move mid-build.

Where does the data live?

For regulated work we self-host n8n inside your own infrastructure: your VPC, your database, your retention policy. Execution data (request payloads, user lists, ticket bodies, anything carrying PII) never crosses onto a vendor's servers, ours included. If you'd rather run Make or Zapier because your team already knows them, we'll build there instead, but you should go in knowing their execution logs sit on their infrastructure.

We're 40 people with no security team. Is this overkill?

Depends what's forcing the question. If a customer security questionnaire or an insurance renewal is the reason, start narrow: Access Review Automation and Compliance Evidence Collector cover most of what gets asked for. Shadow IT Detector and Software License Tracker are cheaper and pay back faster, since they tend to surface subscriptions nobody has opened in months. Don't buy an Orchestration-tier build for a Starter-tier problem.

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IT and security operations automation that holds up in an audit

17 automations, $900 to $13,500 depending on scope. Every range is hours multiplied by our published $150/hour rate.

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Most access reviews die in a spreadsheet. Someone exports a user list from Okta, pastes it into Sheets, emails eight system owners, then chases four of them for three weeks. By the time the last sign-off comes back, two people on the list have already left and the export is stale, so the evidence you hand the auditor describes a company that no longer exists. Access Review Automation fixes the chase, not the judgment. It pulls the current user list per system, splits it by owner, delivers each owner only their slice, records who approved what and when, and escalates the ones that go quiet.

Here's the part other shops won't tell you. A lot of the naive versions of these are already features of the identity provider or MDM you're paying for. If you want SSO Provisioning Automator and you're on Okta with decent group rules, we'll usually tell you to go build lifecycle management in Okta instead and keep your money. Same with MFA Enforcement Tracker: Entra reports on that natively. The build earns its keep when the workflow crosses systems the IdP can't see, when approvals need to happen in Slack where people actually are, or when you need a durable record of the decision instead of just the end state.

Compliance Evidence Collector is usually where the money is. Evidence gathering fails in a predictable way: someone takes screenshots the week the auditor asks, so every artifact is dated inside a five-day window and none of it shows the control operated all year. A scheduled pull does. Same logic behind Google Workspace Admin Audit Pull, which reads the Reports API on a lookback window and alerts on super-admin grants and sharing-policy changes, and Incident Evidence Capture, which snapshots the relevant logs at declaration time instead of after retention quietly ages them out.

We design these builds against HIPAA, SOC 2 and FINRA control requirements. Every run writes an audit log, high-risk steps sit behind an approval gate, and Segregation of Duties Checks catches the case where the same person requested and approved the thing. n8n is the default because we can self-host it inside your own infrastructure, so execution data (the payloads, the user lists, anything with PII in it) never leaves your network. That matters more here than in any other category. To be clear about what that sentence is: it's how we build, not a certificate we hold.

Pricing is hours times $150 and it's published. Approval Matrix Enforcement or Backup Verification usually lands in the Starter band, $900 to $1,800, one to two weeks. Access Review Automation across five or six systems with sign-off capture is Workflow work: $2,400 to $6,000, two to four weeks. A full access lifecycle (request routing through Access Request Router, provisioning, review, revocation, evidence) is Orchestration at $6,000 to $13,500 over four to eight weeks. Project minimum is $2,500. If your ask is smaller than that, we'll point you at the native feature that covers it.

The it & security plays.

IT & Security Operations
Access Request Router
Slack form for access requests with role-based approval routing and auto-provisioning.
Okta/Entra/Google Workspace → Slack approvals
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Access Review Automation
Monthly user list export to system owners, captures sign-off.
Okta/Entra + SaaS admin APIs → sign-off workflow
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Approval Matrix Enforcement
Spend/discount/contract thresholds enforced by role with audit trail.
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Backup Verification
Confirms backups completed successfully and alerts on failure.
$900–$1,800
Starter · 1–2 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Compliance Evidence Collector
Pulls evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA audits on a schedule.
Okta, AWS/GCP, GitHub, HRIS → evidence store
$6,000–$13,500
Orchestration · 4–8 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Credential Rotation Reminders
Tracks API key age, creates rotation tasks, notifies owners before expiry.
$900–$1,800
Starter · 1–2 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Device Lifecycle Manager
Tracks devices from issuance to return, including age, warranty, and compliance.
HRIS + MDM (Intune/Kandji/Jamf) → asset register
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Google Workspace Admin Audit Pull
Pulls Admin audit events for lookback window, alerts on risky changes.
Google Workspace Reports API → alerts
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Incident Evidence Capture
Incident declaration auto-snapshots relevant logs and preserves them.
$900–$1,800
Starter · 1–2 weeks
IT & Security Operations
KYC/KYB Document Chase
Missing onboarding docs trigger reminders and deadline-based escalations.
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
MFA Enforcement Tracker
Identifies users without MFA on critical tools and nudges.
$900–$1,800
Starter · 1–2 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Security Incident Triage
Captures and routes incidents through severity classification, response team paging, and post-mortem generation.
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Segregation of Duties Checks
Flags when same person requests and approves high-risk actions.
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Sensitive Data Exfiltration Guardrails
Detects workflows attempting to send regulated fields to non-approved destinations; blocks and alerts.
n8n/Make workflows → policy engine + alerts
$6,000–$13,500
Orchestration · 4–8 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Shadow IT Detector
Flags new SaaS tools showing up in expense reports or SSO logs.
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
Software License Tracker
Monitors licenses, utilization, and renewal dates to catch shelfware.
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks
IT & Security Operations
SSO Provisioning Automator
Bulk-provisions SSO apps based on role templates.
$2,400–$6,000
Workflow · 2–4 weeks

Starter items fall below our $2,500 project minimum, so they ship bundled with others. Orchestration and Platform builds are scoped on a call before any payment.

Questions

Before you book.

Isn't most of this already in Okta or Entra?: Often, yes. Lifecycle management, group-based app assignment, MFA reporting, and basic access certification all exist natively in the major identity platforms, and if you're licensed for them we'll say so on the call rather than quote a build. Automation earns its place at the seams: SaaS apps with no SCIM support, approvals that need to run in Slack, and evidence that has to be assembled from four systems that don't talk to each other.
Can you get us SOC 2 compliant?: No, and be careful with anyone who says they can. An auditor issues the report, and a platform like Vanta or Drata handles policy and continuous monitoring. What we build is the plumbing underneath: scheduled evidence pulls, access reviews that produce dated sign-off records, approval gates that write an audit log. We design against SOC 2, HIPAA and FINRA control requirements so the artifacts hold up when someone asks how the control operated.
What does an access review build cost, and how long does it take?: Rate is $150 an hour and the bands are published. A single-system review with sign-off capture is Starter work: $900 to $1,800 over one to two weeks. Five or six systems with reminders, escalation, and an evidence store is Workflow, $2,400 to $6,000 over two to four weeks. Project minimum is $2,500. Scoping happens before you pay anything, so the number doesn't move mid-build.
Where does the data live?: For regulated work we self-host n8n inside your own infrastructure: your VPC, your database, your retention policy. Execution data (request payloads, user lists, ticket bodies, anything carrying PII) never crosses onto a vendor's servers, ours included. If you'd rather run Make or Zapier because your team already knows them, we'll build there instead, but you should go in knowing their execution logs sit on their infrastructure.
We're 40 people with no security team. Is this overkill?: Depends what's forcing the question. If a customer security questionnaire or an insurance renewal is the reason, start narrow: Access Review Automation and Compliance Evidence Collector cover most of what gets asked for. Shadow IT Detector and Software License Tracker are cheaper and pay back faster, since they tend to surface subscriptions nobody has opened in months. Don't buy an Orchestration-tier build for a Starter-tier problem.

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IT and security operations automation that holds up in an audit

The it & security plays.

Access Request Router

Access Review Automation

Approval Matrix Enforcement

Backup Verification

Compliance Evidence Collector

Credential Rotation Reminders

Device Lifecycle Manager

Google Workspace Admin Audit Pull

Incident Evidence Capture

KYC/KYB Document Chase

MFA Enforcement Tracker

Security Incident Triage

Segregation of Duties Checks

Sensitive Data Exfiltration Guardrails

Shadow IT Detector

Software License Tracker

SSO Provisioning Automator

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