Adopt AI without the security or compliance risk.
Everyone wants to move fast with AI. Few can do it without leaking data, contaminating IP, or failing the next audit. We wire AI into your business securely — and prove the controls, per engagement. We're the parent company of CATAAM, a GRC and security platform, so compliance isn't a promise we make. It's evidence we hand you.
The gap
The market makes you choose three vendors. We're the one who does all three.
Ask “who helps us adopt AI safely?” and you get three answers that never overlap — so the secure, compliant, shipped system falls through the cracks between them.
Security testing firms
They red-team your AI and hand you a report. Then they leave. No build, no compliance, no fix.
One piece only
GRC advisors
They write the policies and the audit-readiness deck. But they’re consultants, not engineers — nothing ships.
One piece only
AI-security platforms
They sell a gateway to police agents. It’s a product you operate, not a system delivered and proven.
One piece only
TheMarkups secures your AI adoption, gets you SOC 2 / ISO 42001-ready, and builds and ships the isolated, audited system — with the evidence to prove it. One team. One accountable outcome.
What we deliver
Four things, delivered — not four decks.
Secure AI & MCP integration
We connect AI and agents to your production systems through isolated contexts and hardened MCP servers — so a tool call can’t exfiltrate what it shouldn’t reach.
Guardrails & data-egress control
Prompt-level DLP, secret and PII redaction, and IP/licensing hygiene so AI speed never turns into a data leak or a copyleft-contamination incident.
Compliance, proven per engagement
SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 wired into what we build — with the control evidence exported, not a badge asserted after the fact.
Human-in-the-loop governance
Approval flows and an audit trail on the actions that matter, so autonomy stays inside boundaries you define and can defend.
Proven, not promised
We don't say “SOC 2-ready.” We prove it.
Most firms badge a certification and move on. We're the parent company of CATAAM, whose continuous-control-monitoring engine turns the work we deliver into auditor-ready evidence — mapped to your controls, monitored over time, and exported to you. Compliance becomes a by-product of shipping, not a separate scramble before the audit.
of agentic AI projects are projected to be scrapped by 2027 — over cost, governance and security.Gartner, 2025
We build the 60% that survives the audit — because we design for it from the first commit.
How an engagement works
From risk map to evidence you keep.
Map the risk
We assess your AI surface, data flows, and the frameworks you’re actually on the hook for — before writing a line.
Wire the guardrails
Isolated LLM contexts, secure MCP/integrations, egress and IP controls stood up inside your boundary.
Build & integrate
We ship the AI system itself — human-in-the-loop where it counts — not just a policy about it.
Prove & hand off
Control validation plus auditor-ready evidence you keep, mapped to SOC 2 / ISO. Proven, not promised.
FAQ
Questions buyers actually ask
- What does “secure AI adoption” actually include?
- Secure AI/MCP integration with isolated LLM contexts, prompt-level data-loss prevention and IP/licensing guardrails, human-in-the-loop governance on high-impact actions, and SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / ISO 42001 controls wired into the system — with the evidence exported to you.
- How are you different from a penetration-testing firm or a GRC consultant?
- Testing firms only test your AI and hand you a report. GRC advisors only write policy and audit-readiness decks. AI-security platforms only sell you a gateway to operate. We do all three and ship the system — one accountable team instead of three vendors.
- What does “compliance proven per engagement” mean?
- Instead of asserting a badge after the fact, we map every control, monitor it over time using CATAAM’s continuous-control-monitoring engine, and export auditor-ready evidence to you. Compliance becomes a by-product of the work, not a scramble before the audit.
- Do you build the software, or only advise?
- We build and integrate the AI system itself, inside your security boundary, human-in-the-loop where it counts — not just advise on it. TheMarkups is an engineering firm and the parent company of the CATAAM security platform.
- Which frameworks and standards do you cover?
- SOC 2, ISO 27001 and ISO/IEC 42001 (AI management systems), with mappings that also support GDPR, NIST AI RMF and EU AI Act record-keeping. We name the frameworks you are actually on the hook for during scoping.
Why us for this
A dev shop can copy our stack. Not our track record.
- We build a security product — CATAAM (GRC, attack-surface and breach simulation). Secure-by-design is our day job.
- We've delivered for NetSPI in offensive security — where the bar for “secure” is set by the people who break things for a living.
- Your code, your IP, your evidence — no platform lock-in. You keep everything we build and prove.
Ready to adopt AI you can defend?
Book a 30-minute scoping call. We'll map your AI risk, name the frameworks you're on the hook for, and come back with the pod and the plan.