Built by the people who break things, and the people who used to audit them.
We’re a deliberately small, senior team. Every engagement is led by someone who has both passed an audit and broken into something they probably shouldn’t have.
sudodudes started because we kept watching the same pattern: brilliant engineering teams get blocked from enterprise deals because they can’t produce a SOC 2 report or an ISO certificate. They hire a consultancy. The consultancy hands them a 90-page policy template, a Trello board, and a pentest from a vendor they’ve never met. Eighteen months later, they’re mid-audit, the pentest finds something real, and everything stops.
We do it the other way around. We’re engineers and offensive security people first. We write policy because we have to, not because it’s the deliverable. We pentest your environment before the auditor sees it. We keep going after the certificate is on the wall.
We’re selective about who we work with. We’ll tell you up front if we’re the wrong fit. And every client has direct access to the people doing the work. No account managers, no offshore handoff.
Principles we run by.
-
Earn the trust, then keep it.
Every engagement starts with a signed MNDA and ends with a client who would take a reference call. There is no second metric.
-
Ship in PRs, not slides.
Compliance work that doesn’t live in version control rots. We deliver controls as code, policies as markdown, and evidence with cryptographic signatures.
-
Tell people the truth.
If a framework doesn’t fit yet, we say so. If the gap is twelve months, not twelve weeks, we say that too. We’d rather lose a deal than ship a fiction.
Stop scheduling compliance around the audit.
Get a 30-minute scoping call. Walk out with a real timeline, a real number, and a no-pressure answer to “is this even worth it for us right now.”