compliance
Industry Compliance
If you're building for healthcare, finance, education, or any regulated industry, there are rules about how you handle data. You probably already know the regulations from your professional life — but you don't know what they mean for software. This skill translates compliance requirements into concrete technical decisions.
This skill is for understanding what regulations mean for your tech stack. For implementing security controls (auth, encryption, rate limiting), use secure. For writing legal documents (ToS, Privacy Policy), use legal. For payment processing and PCI, use payments.
Disclaimer: This skill covers common compliance patterns. It is not legal advice. Consult a compliance specialist for your specific situation, especially before handling sensitive data in production.
Core Principles
- Compliance is not optional in regulated industries. Getting it wrong can kill your business.
- Most compliance requirements boil down to: who can see data, how is it stored, and what happens when something goes wrong.
- The right tech stack choices handle 80% of compliance for you. Don't reinvent the wheel.
- Compliance is cheaper to build in from the start than to retrofit later.
- You don't need SOC 2 certification at $0 MRR. But you do need to make decisions now that don't block certification later.
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