Schematic Customer Story

As an early-stage startup building core infrastructure, Schematic needed to take security and compliance seriously from the beginning. But without a security team, that responsibility fell to engineering, alongside shipping product and supporting customers.

They ran into several challenges along the way:

• Tool sprawl: To cover basic security and compliance requirements, the team adopted multiple tools in quick succession. Static analysis, DAST, vulnerability scanning, and compliance tracking all lived in separate systems, creating a fragmented stack with little shared context.
• High operational toil: Security findings were often repetitive or low signal. Without a security operations team to triage issues, developers spent time sorting through noise and second-guessing priorities instead of fixing meaningful problems.
• Compliance busywork: Preparing for SOC 2 introduced ongoing manual work. Evidence collection, documentation, and other audit prep pulled time away from core engineering efforts.
• Overbuilt enterprise solutions: Many security tools assumed dedicated security staff and lots of time. Engineers were left clicking between dashboards and managing workflows that didn’t match how modern engineering teams actually work.

Schematic adopted Fencer to consolidate security work into a single system designed for startup engineering teams.

• Architecture-first context: Fencer maps Schematic’s architecture before surfacing findings, the context-aware approach reduces duplicate and irrelevant issues.
• Developer-centric workflows: Security findings flow directly into the tools the team already uses, instead of requiring engineers to live in yet another dashboard.
• Stack consolidation: Fencer replaced multiple point solutions by covering static analysis (SAST), dynamic application security testing (DAST), dependency and vulnerability scanning, DNS and external asset checks, and compliance evidence collection

With Fencer in place, Schematic strengthened their security posture while reducing the day-to-day burden on engineering.

• Critical issues caught earlier: Fencer identified a critical vulnerability related to Amazon ECS usage, allowing the team to resolve it before it became customer-facing.
• Smoother SOC 2 audits: The current audit cycle requires less manual effort, as all evidence is automatically captured and submitted to their GRC tool.
• Elimination of “click-ops”: Engineers no longer bounce between disconnected tools and dashboards to resolve security issues.‍
• Shared visibility across teams: Because security work flows through the standard issue tracker, leadership and product teams have a clearer view of security effort and risk.