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Senior-only bench
Every engagement is staffed by senior practitioners. No bait-and-switch, no junior consultants padding the bill.
// secure systems · run infrastructure · ship AI
Engineering you can trust, on the systems you can't afford to get wrong.
StateDrive LLC partners with technology teams on cybersecurity, IT operations, and AI adoption. Senior practitioners only. Outcome-based engagements. Written reports you can act on without us.
- 15+
years senior incident-response experience
- 230+
engagements delivered to date
- 4
compliance regimes (SOC 2 · ISO 27001 · GDPR · HIPAA)
- < 24h
first response on every inbound
Trusted by teams across regulated industries
Northwind CapitalHelix HealthPolaris TrustAurora AeroQuanta LabsVector RetailMeridian EnergyHalcyon PharmaNorthwind CapitalHelix HealthPolaris TrustAurora AeroQuanta LabsVector RetailMeridian EnergyHalcyon Pharma
What we do
Three practices. One senior team.
Cybersecurity
Find risk before someone else does. Respond fast when it counts. Stay compliant without slowing down.
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IT
Design, build, and run modern cloud and network infrastructure that just works.
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AI
Adopt AI responsibly: strategy, custom builds, and security from day one.
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Why StateDrive
The unfair advantage of senior-only consulting.
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Outcome-based engagements
We scope to deliverables, not hours. You know the price and the result before we start.
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Written reports you can act on
Every project ends in a report your team can execute without us. Prioritized, actionable, fact-checked.
How we work
Predictable steps. Honest deliverables.
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Discover
We learn your stack, risks, and goals in a one-week working session.
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Assess
We map findings to business impact and build a prioritized plan.
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Implement
We do the work — or coach your team through it — with weekly check-ins.
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Handover
You receive a written report, runbooks, and a 30-day Slack support window.
Case studies
Recent work.
Cyber
Series-B fintech cut breach detection 4× ahead of SOC 2 Type II
Replatformed logging and detection-as-code in eight weeks, mapped to SOC 2 controls before audit. Tabletop-tested IR runbook with the engineering and customer-support leads.
Outcome → Median MTTR: 42 min → 10 min. SOC 2 audit passed first try. Saved an estimated $180k in deferred audit-remediation cost.
IT
Mid-market manufacturer halved cloud spend during AWS migration
Lifted 38 legacy VMs from on-prem to AWS over a quarter, refactored 11 of them, introduced Terraform and tagging-driven cost allocation.
Outcome → Year-1 cloud bill: $612k → $284k. Zero unplanned downtime during migration. Internal team owns the IaC repo today.
AI
Healthcare SaaS shipped RAG with zero PHI leakage in 12 weeks
Designed a retrieval-augmented internal assistant on 22k clinical documents with strict data-isolation boundaries, prompt-injection red-team testing, and a per-tenant audit log.
Outcome → Launched to 4,000 internal users. Zero data-leakage incidents in six months. 31% reduction in median ticket-handling time.
What clients say
"They wrote the security playbook our internal team is still using two years later. Practical, opinionated, and unusually good at saying no when no was the right answer."
— Head of Platform, Series B SaaS (under NDA)
FAQ
Questions before you reach out.
How are engagements priced?
Fixed-fee per deliverable. We give a price before we start. Open-ended work is structured as a monthly retainer with a defined deliverable each month.
What's a typical timeline?
Discovery is one week. Most assessments deliver in three to six weeks. Implementation engagements are scoped in eight-week increments.
Do you sign NDAs?
Yes. We have a standard mutual NDA we can send, or we'll sign yours.
Remote or onsite?
Most work is remote. We travel for kickoffs and critical incident response, billed at cost.
Do you offer ongoing retainers?
Yes, for managed services and on-call. Retainers start at 20 hours per month with a 90-day minimum.
Will you sub-contract the work?
Never silently. If a specialist is the right call, we bring them in by name, with you in the loop, before the work starts.
Ready to talk?
Tell us what you're working on. We'll respond within one business day.