ALICE
Every line of code across every engagement passes through ALICE. Continuous quality assurance with built-in compliance enforcement.
What This Enables
Without ALICE, compliance verification is a manual phase at the end of every sprint. With ALICE, compliance is enforced at every commit — automatically, at the infrastructure level. This means our teams ship compliant code by default, not by effort. It's the difference between hoping your code passes audit and knowing it will. Every engineer on every engagement works with ALICE as an always-on compliance layer. They can't commit non-compliant code because the system won't let them.
ALICE operates as a pre-commit enforcement layer wired directly into version control. Every commit triggers a policy-as-code evaluation pipeline: the proposed change is tested against a structured ruleset derived from the applicable regulatory frameworks for that engagement — HIPAA Privacy and Security Rule requirements, GDPR Article 25 data-by-design obligations, FedRAMP Low/Moderate/High controls, SOC 2 Trust Service Criteria, and others. The '247 controls' figure refers to the total number of discrete, machine-evaluable control checks ALICE runs per commit across a full HIPAA-plus-SOC-2 engagement — covering data handling, access control patterns, encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging completeness, and API security posture. ALICE integrates at the CI/CD pipeline level: it runs in the pre-commit hook to block non-compliant code locally, again in the pull request validation stage, and again as a gate before any artifact is promoted to staging. Compliance documentation — control evidence, test results, audit trail artifacts — is generated continuously as a build output. When an engagement closes, the compliance package is not assembled retrospectively. It exists because ALICE built it commit by commit across the entire engagement lifecycle.
ALICE ships standard on every relevant engagement. You don't request it — it's already part of how we build.
Start a ConversationThe Business Case
Manual compliance review at the end of a sprint cycle costs an average of 3–4 engineering weeks per engagement to remediate findings discovered too late to fix cheaply. At senior engineer billing rates, that is $80,000–$140,000 in unplanned remediation cost per engagement — before accounting for delayed launch timelines and regulatory exposure during the remediation window. ALICE eliminates that cost entirely by moving enforcement to the commit stage. Non-compliant code never reaches the codebase, so there is nothing to remediate at audit time. Clients who operate ALICE across their engagements also eliminate the cost of a separate compliance auditor review cycle, because the audit documentation package is generated automatically. The arithmetic is straightforward: prevention at commit costs a fraction of remediation at audit.
How It Works in an Engagement
On day one of every engagement, ALICE is configured for your regulatory environment — HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP, whatever applies. From that point forward, every line of code committed by any engineer on the engagement is automatically checked against your compliance requirements. Non-compliant code is flagged before it reaches the repository. Compliance documentation is generated throughout the build — not assembled at the end. When the engagement closes, your compliance documentation package exists because ALICE built it commit by commit.
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It ships standard. You don't request it — it's already part of how we build.