Rapid growth is a double-edged sword. For “The Client” (anonymized), a Series B fintech company, doubling their engineering team and customer base meant their cloud infrastructure was spiraling out of control—both financially and operationally.
The Client was scaling fast. Their Azure bill was growing by 15% month-over-month, yet they had no clear visibility into where the money was going. Simultaneously, they were pursuing enterprise contracts that required SOC 2 Type II compliance, a rigorous security standard they were nowhere near meeting.
“We had devs spinning up unauthorized resources, no policy enforcement, and our CTO was too buried in product roadmap to manage infrastructure governance,” said the VP of Engineering.
Waypoint Tech Advisors engaged with a hybrid approach: deploying the WaypointX Security Baseline for immediate control, followed by a Fractional CTO engagement to drive strategy.
Established change management boards and incident response plans. Leveraged WaypointX baseline to satisfy 80% of technical controls out-of-the-box.
Within 90 days, The Client transformed from a chaotic startup environment to a matured, enterprise-ready organization. The 40% reduction in monthly burn extended their runway by four months, and achieving SOC 2 compliances opened the door to three major enterprise deals worth over $2M ARR.
