HIPAA compliance for teams too small for a compliance hire.
You don't have six weeks or a five-figure budget for a consulting engagement — you have a security questionnaire due Friday. This is built for that.
The moment HIPAA stops being optional.
Most health-tech startups don't start compliant on day one — they get there when a deal or a hire forces the question. That moment tends to look like one of these.
The security questionnaire that stalls a deal
An enterprise or health-system buyer sends a vendor security review, and it asks for exactly the things a startup hasn't formalized yet: a named security official, a written risk analysis, a workforce training record.
A BAA you're not ready to sign
Signing a Business Associate Agreement without the underlying controls in place is a liability, not a formality. Buyers increasingly ask for evidence, not just a signature.
No one whose job this is
A 6-person team doesn't have a compliance hire. Whoever's closest to it — the founder, the first ops hire — ends up owning HIPAA on top of everything else, with no time to become an expert in it.
What you actually walk away with.
An afternoon, not a fundraise-delaying engagement
Answer the 12-question self-audit, let AI draft the policies you're missing from your actual answers, pass an independent AI validation pass. No consultant, no six-week engagement.
Workforce training that scales with headcount
Every hire — technical or not — completes free HIPAA training and shows up on your team dashboard as certified. No per-seat pricing to renegotiate as you grow.
Something to actually put in the data room
A public verification URL a buyer, investor, or partner checks themselves — live status, certified staff count, renewal date. Not a PDF they have to take your word on.
From sign-up to a live badge, in one sitting.
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Create your account
One founder or ops-owner account. No sales call, no implementation fee, no seat minimum.
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Run the 12-question self-audit
Answer honestly. Anything you flag as not-yet-done becomes a gap AI can help you close.
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AI drafts what's missing
Policies, procedures, and documentation generated from your actual answers — then an independent AI pass validates the package before it can pass.
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Get your badge and your opinion
A public verification page for buyers and partners, plus a downloadable Independent Audit Opinion for the data room.
Skip the compliance consultant.
A traditional engagement is built for organizations that can afford to wait six weeks and write a five-figure check. Startups can't, so we didn't build it that way.
| Traditional consultant | HIPAA TrustGuard | |
|---|---|---|
| Time to a passing review | 4–8 weeks of back-and-forth | Same afternoon |
| Upfront cost | $5,000–$15,000+ engagement fee | $499/year, flat |
| Cost per new hire | Renegotiate the engagement | $0 — unlimited staff |
| Ongoing maintenance | Re-engage annually, or drift out of compliance | Annual renewal built into the product |
| Proof you can hand a buyer | A static PDF report, as of one date | A live, independently checkable verification page |
Something real to hand your buyer, investor, or acquirer.
Enterprise security reviews and investor diligence checklists both eventually ask the same question: prove it. A badge that only you control isn't proof — a public page anyone can check, backed by a formal written opinion, is.
Public verification page
Live status, certified staff count, and renewal date — checkable by anyone with the link, no login required.
Independent Audit Opinion
A formal, control-by-control PDF, written once your review passes — built to drop straight into a data room or forward to a security reviewer.
Questions founders actually ask.
We're pre-revenue with three people. Is this overkill?
No — if any of the three of you touch patient data (even a design partner's test data), you're already in HIPAA's scope. The self-audit takes an afternoon, not a headcount.
Our buyer's security team wants more than a badge. What do we show them?
The public verification page plus a downloadable Independent Audit Opinion — a formal, control-by-control PDF written once your review passes, built for exactly this: dropping into a data room or forwarding to a security reviewer.
What happens when we hire our 10th, 20th, 50th person?
They complete the same free training and show up on your team dashboard automatically. The $499/year price doesn't change with headcount — no renegotiation, no per-seat invoice.
We're not ready to sign a BAA with our first enterprise pilot. Does this help?
It's the fastest way to get ready. The self-audit surfaces exactly which controls you're missing before you're staring at a BAA you can't honestly sign.
More questions? Read the full FAQ.
$499/year, unlimited staff — while you're 5 people or 50.
One flat price, no per-seat renegotiation as you hire. Set up today, badge live this week.