How do you handle compliance (HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR) without hiring a lawyer or CISO?
Hey Indie Hackers 👋
I'm building CompliAssistant, an AI-powered compliance assistant to help small SaaS teams get compliant with HIPAA, SOC 2, GDPR, and more — without hiring external consultants or writing docs from scratch.
We generate audit-ready policies, automate documentation, and guide you step-by-step through what matters most for your product and customers.
I started this because I saw how time-consuming and expensive it is to figure this stuff out when you’re still small — especially when you're juggling 100 other things.
✅ No templates
✅ No fluff
✅ Just actionable, tailored guidance
If you're working on something that touches user data, I’d love to hear:
What part of compliance frustrates you most?
Have you tried tools like Drata, Vanta, or Secureframe? What worked / didn’t?
Or if you want to try the early version and give feedback, I’ll send it over.
Let’s make compliance a no-brainer for builders 🚀
Congrats on shipping this — compliance tooling for small teams is a space I'm in too (building ComplyEasy, also SOC 2/HIPAA/GDPR-focused), so full disclosure there, but genuinely curious how you're approaching it.
The part that trips up most early teams I've talked to isn't the policy docs themselves — it's knowing which controls actually matter for your specific product before an auditor or enterprise security questionnaire forces the issue. Templates get you 80% of the way to "looks compliant on paper," but the gap-analysis part (what's actually missing, prioritized by risk) is where teams get stuck.
Curious whether CompliAssistant does continuous gap analysis against a live framework, or is it more one-time doc generation? And are you seeing more pull from HIPAA or SOC 2 first?
Good luck with it — always nice to see more people trying to make this less painful for small teams.
Thanks for the comment, do you have an email I can contact you on? So we can speak further.