BaaStream

I'm a solo founder, and I want to build in public about a mistake I suspect a lot of technical founders make.

• What I built: BaaStream — a compliance scanner for digital health startups. It runs in your CI/CD and checks your code against HIPAA, FHIR, HITRUST, SOC 2, and GDPR rules before anything merges. 230+ rules today.

• The gap: HIPAA, FHIR, HITRUST, SOC 2, GDPR — digital health startups get audited on all of these, but compliance lives in spreadsheets, PDFs, and $300/hr consultants who show up after the code is written. By then a PHI leak or a broken FHIR resource is already merged.

• The bet: Compliance is really just a set of rules about code and data flows. Rules can be enforced automatically. So instead of a human auditor reading your repo six months late, BaaStream runs 230+ rules on every pull request and blocks the violation before it merges. Compliance becomes a linter, not an event.

• Who it's for: Series A/B digital health companies — the stage where you suddenly have to pass SOC 2 / HITRUST to close enterprise deals, but you don't yet have a compliance team. That's the acute pain window.

• The trust wedge (the part that's actually hard): It runs entirely in your environment and never receives PHI — the invariant is structural, not a redaction filter. Findings physically can't carry the matched raw content out. That's what makes a security-conscious health CTO willing to plug it into their pipeline. No BAA required.

Compliance should be a linter, not a $300/hr consultant.