Early-Stage Healthcare Tech Company
An early-stage healthcare technology company building a regulated SaaS platform pulled us in to round out the team where senior coverage was thin. We embedded as a cross-discipline pod across QA, AI engineering, DevOps, product, and security — the full spread of senior coverage they couldn't justify hiring as five separate FTEs.
- Client
- Early-Stage Healthcare Tech Company
- Sector
- Healthcare technology
- Services
- QA automation
- AI engineering
- DevOps
- Product advisory
- Fractional CISO
- SOC2 Type 2 · HIPAA · ISO 27001
Early-stage healthtech runs into the same trap most of them do: the product roadmap is moving fast, regulated-industry rigor is non-negotiable, the enterprise-buyer compliance bar is real, and the engineering team is too small to staff every discipline at senior level. The company needed senior coverage on QA automation, AI engineering, DevOps, product strategy, and security — without hiring five full-time leads to do it.
What we built.
- 01
Playwright-driven test automation
Built out an end-to-end Playwright test suite from a thin starting baseline — significantly expanding coverage across the product surface so the team could ship faster without losing confidence in what was breaking.
- 02
AI-native development practice
Embedded with their engineers to instill AI-native development patterns — how to design, prompt, evaluate, and ship features that lean on LLMs in ways that are testable and production-grade, not demo-bait.
- 03
Product advisory on roadmap features
Worked alongside their product leadership to scope and design large product features that rounded out their position in market — translating where the team wanted to be into specs the engineers could build against.
- 04
Fractional CISO + compliance to landing
Stood up the security program and drove SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 certifications across the line — controls written, evidence assembled, auditors walked through. The program survived the engagement instead of unraveling once we rotated out.
- 05
DevOps coverage
Senior DevOps support across the build, deploy, and infrastructure surface so the team kept shipping cleanly while the rest of the work landed.
Playwright coverage expanded materially. Engineers came out of the engagement fluent in AI-native development patterns they hadn't been running before. SOC2 Type 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001 all certified. Product features that rounded out the company's market position designed and ready to build.
- ComplianceSOC2 Type 2 · HIPAA · ISO 27001
- Test coverageSignificantly expanded via Playwright
- Engineering practiceAI-native patterns instilled
- Product positionRounded out via senior advisory