Compliance engineering

Built to survive the audit.

Accessibility, privacy, consent, and security controls are engineered into the build, not bolted on before launch. Here is exactly what ships today, exactly what gets scoped per engagement, and where our work ends and your counsel's begins.

Four frameworks ship by default · two are scoped, with the precondition stated before any work starts

Why anyone reads a page like this

You want a straight answer.

Not a badge, and not a maybe.

  • What it looks like

    A letter arrives from a lawyer you have never heard of.

    It names your website, cites a standard you have never read, and gives you a deadline. Nothing about your business changed. Somebody ran a scanner.

  • What it feels like

    You cannot tell whether your own site is exposed.

    You would like one honest answer about where you stand. What you get is a vendor selling a badge and an attorney explaining that it depends.

  • Why that is not on you

    Nobody told you the banner was theater.

    You bought a cookie banner and reasonably assumed it blocked something. It was drawn over trackers that had already fired.

At a glance

Four ship. Two are scoped.

Every competitor claims all six. Here is the honest split, before you read a single control.

Shipping today

Running on live client sites right now. Ships by default, on every build, at no extra line item.

ADA / WCAG · GDPR · California / US states · Cookie consent / GPC

Scoped per engagement

We build to the controls the framework calls for. The framework itself carries a precondition we state up front, before any work starts.

SOC 2 · HIPAA

Framework by framework

Open the one your auditor asks about

Each panel names the mechanisms, the receipts, and for the two scoped frameworks, the precondition.

ADA and WCAG 2.1 Level AAADA / WCAG
Shipping today

WCAG 2.1 AA is the standard the Department of Justice and the courts reference, and it is the target every build is engineered against. Accessibility is a conformance target plus an ongoing practice, so we ship the mechanisms and the public statement that documents them.

What we build

  • Our own accessibility widget, built in-house and shipped on 14 sites: 7 one-click disability profiles and 22 to 25 individual adjustments
  • Contrast modes that remap the design tokens themselves rather than dropping a filter over the page
  • A public WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility statement page on every site, written to match what the build actually does
  • Skip links, real ARIA patterns, focus traps, and keyboard paths through every interactive element
  • Reduced motion honored in 10 to 38 separate places per site, not one global switch
  • Heading order enforced at the data layer, so a content editor cannot accidentally break document structure

Receipts

Lighthouse 100 on accessibility across whole sites, not cherry-picked pages: 346 runs across 195 routes on one build, 173 pages on another.

The widget is code you own outright. It is the thing other studios rent to you as a monthly subscription.

3,117

Plaintiffs filed 3,117 federal website accessibility lawsuits in 2025, up 27% over 2024, and 64% of the defendants had annual revenue under $25 million.

Seyfarth Shaw and UsableNet. Calendar year 2025.

GDPRGDPR
Shipping today

We have built GDPR-ready sites where consent is a real gate in the code, not a banner drawn over trackers that already fired. If a user has not opted in, there is no script tag, no network request, and no cookie.

What we build

  • Analytics and pixels implemented as components that return null until consent is granted, so nothing loads pre-consent
  • Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track honored as binding opt-outs, not logged and ignored
  • Edge middleware geo-fencing with 33 opt-in jurisdictions across the EU, EEA, UK, Switzerland and Brazil, defaulted OFF until consent
  • Withdrawal that actively expires already-set _ga and _fbp cookies rather than just flipping a flag
  • Accept and Reject carrying equal visual weight: no dark patterns, no pre-ticked boxes, no buried reject
  • Versioned, timestamped consent records, so you can show what a user agreed to and when

Receipts

Privacy policies of 16 to 23 sections, written as typed data that matches actual code behaviour rather than a template pasted in at launch.

The claim is verifiable by anyone: open the network tab before accepting and watch nothing fire.

11 of 11

A March 2026 forensic audit of 7,634 sites found all 11 consent platforms it evaluated failed to consistently block advertising cookies after opt-out, with three Google-certified platforms failing 77%, 90% and 91% of the time.

webXray Global Privacy Audit. March 2026.

California CCPA and CPRA, plus the US state patchworkCalifornia / US states
Shipping today

California set the pattern and 20 more states have followed, each with its own thresholds and its own opt-out mechanics. We build the rights machinery once, correctly, so a site does not need re-engineering every time another state law takes effect.

What we build

  • Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information links, wired to something that actually happens
  • CCPA rights request forms for access, deletion and correction, with the response paths documented
  • Global Privacy Control honored as a binding universal opt-out signal, which 12 states have required since January 1, 2026
  • Data-broker registration disclosures citing four state statutes where a client's business model requires them
  • SMS consent flows engineered against TCPA requirements, with the consent language and the record kept together
  • Age gates for 18+ and COPPA enforced on the client AND on the server, because a client-side gate is a suggestion

Receipts

Roughly 1,500 CIPA wiretapping suits were filed in the 18 months to August 2025, most turning on trackers a site's own privacy page did not disclose. Our privacy pages are generated from the same typed data the trackers are gated by.

The California Privacy Protection Agency issued a record $1.35 million fine against Tractor Supply in September 2025, largely over ineffective opt-out mechanisms.

12 states

As of January 1, 2026, twelve US states require businesses to honor universal opt-out preference signals, and California's AB 566 requires every browser serving California users to ship a built-in opt-out setting from January 1, 2027.

Tannenbaum Helpern and IAPP. January 2026.

SOC 2 control-mapped hardeningSOC 2
Scoped per engagement

SOC 2 audits an organization, not a website, and the report is issued by your auditor. What we do is build the web layer so that when your auditor asks how a control is implemented, there is a specific answer in the code with the control number written next to it.

The precondition, stated up front

Spider Digital Group is not SOC 2 audited and holds no SOC 2 report. We build your site and platform to the controls, and document them so your auditor can trace each one. The report itself comes from your auditor, against your organization.

What we build

  • Server defenses commented with the specific control they map to, so a reviewer can follow the code to the criterion
  • CC6.1 on the contact route: a raw-body cap enforced before JSON parse, every field length-bounded, and type-confusion-safe coercion
  • CC6.6 and CC6.7 in next.config: a Content Security Policy shipped Report-Only first with a documented promotion path, allow-listed to the exact third parties in use
  • CC6.7 in the consent library and CC7.2 on contact-route logging
  • P4.1 data minimization enforced in middleware
  • CC8.1 change management in a RELEASING.md runbook: clean tree, green typecheck, lint and build gates, npm audit, release tagging, and deployment-ID-to-commit-SHA traceability

Receipts

A full document pack ships with the build: SECURITY-POLICY, INCIDENT-RESPONSE, RISK-REGISTER, RUNBOOK, and a subprocessor disclosure.

A security audit with SOC 2 control mapping across a 492-URL site returned 43 findings: 0 critical, 0 high.

HIPAA technical safeguardsHIPAA
Scoped per engagement

The HIPAA Security Rule names a set of technical safeguards: access control, audit controls, integrity, authentication, and transmission security. We build those safeguards, and we have shipped them on regulated platform work.

The precondition, stated up front

A HIPAA engagement requires a signed Business Associate Agreement and HIPAA-eligible hosting. That is scoped per project, before any protected health information is involved. No protected health information flows through a standard build.

What we build

  • Mandatory TOTP multi-factor authentication, enforced at the middleware layer rather than as an account setting a user can skip
  • 5-tier role-based access control with 13 permission keys, where an account can never grant a permission it does not itself hold
  • Append-only audit logs: UPDATE and DELETE are blocked at the database level, even for the service role
  • Threat detection for brute-force attempts and privilege escalation
  • A 30-minute idle logout, plus durable per-IP and per-account login lockouts that survive a serverless cold start
  • Row-level security on every tenant table, encryption in transit, and sanitize-on-write

Receipts

These are not proposals. Each one is running in a regulated platform build we shipped.

The healthcare platform behind this work is a pre-sales build and stays unnamed. We do not trade on client names we have not been given permission to use.

Where our work ends

We build the mechanisms. Your counsel signs off on the policy.

Compliance is a legal determination about an organization. A website either implements the controls a framework calls for, or it does not, and that part is engineering. We will not tell you that you are compliant, because that is not ours to say. We will show you exactly which controls are implemented, where they live in the code, and what is still open, in language your attorney and your auditor can both work from.

No certification theater

There is no such thing as an ADA-certified website, and a website is never SOC 2 compliant. Any studio selling you either one is selling you a badge, not a build.

Receipts over adjectives

Every control on this page maps to code in a build we shipped. Ask us to show you the file and we will show you the file.

You own all of it

The consent library, the accessibility widget, the security headers, the policy data: it is your code on your repository. Nothing here is a subscription that stops working when you stop paying us.

Scope stated before the work

If a framework needs an agreement, specific hosting, or your counsel's involvement before we can start, you hear that in the first conversation, not after the invoice.

Straight answers

The questions buyers actually ask

Including the two where the honest answer is no.

Can you build an ADA compliant website?
We build to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard the Department of Justice and the courts reference. There is no such thing as an ADA certification, and no honest studio can guarantee compliance as a permanent state, because accessibility is a conformance target plus ongoing practice as your content changes. What we ship is a build engineered to that standard, an accessibility widget with 7 disability profiles and 22 to 25 adjustments, a public accessibility statement, and Lighthouse 100 on accessibility across whole sites.
Is Spider Digital Group SOC 2 certified?
No. Spider Digital Group is not SOC 2 audited and holds no SOC 2 report, and SOC 2 audits an organization rather than a website. What we do is build the web layer so it survives your auditor's review: server defenses commented with the specific control they map to, CC6.1 input hardening on form routes, CC6.6 and CC6.7 Content Security Policy work, P4.1 data minimization in middleware, and CC8.1 change management documented in a release runbook. Your auditor issues the report against your organization.
Can you build a HIPAA compliant website or platform?
We build the technical safeguards the HIPAA Security Rule calls for, and we have shipped them: mandatory TOTP multi-factor authentication enforced at the middleware layer, 5-tier role-based access control with 13 permission keys, append-only audit logs where UPDATE and DELETE are blocked even for the service role, 30-minute idle logout, durable login lockouts, and row-level security on every tenant table. A HIPAA engagement also requires a signed Business Associate Agreement and HIPAA-eligible hosting, which is scoped per project before any protected health information is involved. No protected health information flows through a standard build.
What makes your cookie consent different from a normal cookie banner?
Our analytics and pixel components return null until consent is granted, so no script tag loads, no network request fires, and no cookie is set before opt-in. You can verify it in the browser network tab. Global Privacy Control and Do Not Track are honored as binding opt-outs, withdrawal actively expires already-set _ga and _fbp cookies, and Accept and Reject carry equal visual weight. A March 2026 audit of 7,634 sites found all 11 consent platforms it tested failed to consistently block advertising cookies after opt-out.
Do you provide legal advice or write our privacy policy?
No. We are engineers, not counsel. We build the mechanisms and we write the privacy policy and terms as typed data that matches what the code actually does, so your attorney is reviewing an accurate description of your site rather than a generic template. Your counsel signs off on the policy and makes the legal determinations.
Which of these ship by default and which are scoped separately?
Accessibility engineered to WCAG 2.1 AA, GDPR-ready consent, California CCPA and CPRA rights machinery, and cookie consent with universal opt-out support ship on every build by default, at no extra line item. SOC 2 control-mapped hardening and HIPAA technical safeguards are scoped per engagement, because both carry preconditions: SOC 2 because the report is issued by your auditor against your organization, and HIPAA because it requires a signed Business Associate Agreement and HIPAA-eligible hosting.

Tell us what the site needs to do.

If a framework needs an agreement, specific hosting or your counsel involved before we can start, you hear it in the first conversation, not after the invoice.

Scope your requirements