The staff-augmentation era is over.
We don't rent you engineers by the hour. We take on the outcome — build, secure and modernize — and stand behind it with a pod, an SLA and the evidence. Audit-ready by design. Priced for startups, hardened for enterprise.
Delivered for teams in security & logistics
NetSPI
Koorier
Nordel LogisticsThe shift
AI didn't kill engineering. It killed renting it by the hour.
When a small team plus AI can out-ship a floor of contractors, buying bodies stops making sense. What a business actually needs is someone to own the result.
of agentic AI projects are projected to be scrapped by 2027 — over cost, governance and security.Gartner, 2025
We're the parent company of CATAAM, a GRC and security platform. We build the 60% that survives the audit — and hand you the evidence.
What we do
Three pods. One accountability model.
Each pod is a small senior team that owns a defined outcome end-to-end — with milestones you can see and an SLA you can hold us to.
Secure AI adoption & compliance
Adopt AI without the security or compliance risk.
The lane no one else owns. Testing firms only test; GRC advisors only write policy; platforms only sell tooling. We do all three and ship it: secure AI/MCP integration, isolated LLM contexts, and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / ISO 42001 — proven per engagement, not just badged.
- Secure AI / MCP integration
- SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · 42001 — proven, not promised
- Data-egress & IP guardrails
AI-native product engineering
Idea to production — fast, but never reckless.
We build with AI in the loop and a human on the hook: senior engineers pairing with AI to ship in weeks, with review gates that keep proprietary data, IP and licensing clean.
- Product & platform builds
- AI features & agents, safely
- Human-in-the-loop review gates
Legacy modernization & tech-debt relief
Upgrade the engine while the car is moving.
Monoliths, brittle pipelines and scaling debt — refactored, partitioned and migrated to modern cloud infrastructure with zero-downtime cutovers and a rollback plan for every step.
- Zero-downtime migrations
- Database partitioning & scale
- Cloud cost & performance
Managed reliability, under SLA
Once it's live, we can keep it live — 24×7 monitoring, incident response and SRE for the systems we build or inherit. Hand off a function, not a headcount.
How we work — the opposite of platform lock-in
Every repo and commit is yours
Clean licensing, no copyleft contamination
Audit artifacts you keep and reuse
No proprietary runtime to rent forever
Why TheMarkups
A dev shop can copy our stack. Not our track record.
We build security products, not just software
TheMarkups is the parent company of CATAAM, a GRC, attack-surface and breach-simulation platform. Compliance and secure-by-design engineering are in our DNA — not a checkbox we bolt on.
Trusted in security & logistics
We’ve delivered for NetSPI in offensive security and for Koorier and Nordel in logistics — domains where downtime, data leaks and failed audits are not options.
AI-native, with a human on the hook
We use AI to move fast, then govern it with human-in-the-loop review so speed never turns into an IP, licensing or data-leak incident. Fast and defensible.
Accountable by design
Pods, milestones and SLAs — not bodies on a bench. You always know who owns the outcome, what “done” means, and what happens if something breaks.
Who we work with
Priced for startups. Hardened for enterprise.
For growing teams
SMBs and funded startups that need to ship real product and pass their first security review — without a 20-person team.
- A senior pod that ships in weeks, not quarters
- Enterprise-grade security from day one
- SOC 2 / ISO readiness when the first big customer asks
- Flexible scope — scale the pod up or down
For scale & compliance
Mid-market and enterprise teams that can't afford downtime, a failed audit, or a breach — and want a vendor that inherits a function.
- Zero-downtime legacy modernization
- 24×7 managed reliability under binding SLA
- Secure AI/MCP integration behind your guardrails
- Data governance & IP protection written into the contract
Selected work
Where downtime, leaks and failed audits aren't options.
Engineering support for a leader in penetration testing and attack-surface management.
We built and run CATAAM end-to-end — GRC, iASM and breach simulation in one platform.
Delivery and courier technology for a Canadian last-mile operator.
Systems work for a logistics operator where uptime is the business.
Client names used with permission / from public engagement history. Detailed case studies available on request.