SaaS Development Company in San Diego

Honest ranges tied to scope. A focused MVP covering authentication, a multi-tenant data model, Stripe subscription billing, a customer portal, an admin console, and two or three core workflows typically runs USD 70,000 to 150,000 over twelve to eighteen weeks. A launch-ready platform adding usage metering, embedded analytics, role-based permissions, audit logs, SSO with SAML and SCIM provisioning, and a SOC 2 control inventory typically runs USD 160,000 to 350,000. A full production platform with deep vertical integrations, a mobile companion app, complex billing, and HIPAA or FedRAMP work running in parallel typically runs USD 350,000 to 900,000 across phases. San Diego engineering rates sit clearly below San Francisco, Seattle, and New York, roughly in line with Denver and Austin, and above most inland US metros, because Qualcomm, Illumina, and the defense primes bid for the same senior people. Add cost specifically for accreditation work: FedRAMP is a program with its own budget line, not a sprint. We quote fixed fee against a signed statement of work, and we price the compliance substrate as part of the build rather than as a surprise later.

It applies if you meet California's data-broker definition, which catches more B2B SaaS than founders expect, particularly anything doing customer data enrichment, identity resolution, audience building, or lead data. SB 362, the Delete Act, was signed October 10 2023. It required the California Privacy Protection Agency to build a centralized Delete Request and Opt-Out Platform, DROP, where a California resident submits a single deletion request that reaches every registered broker. California residents have been able to submit a request through DROP since January 1 2026, and Civil Code section 1798.99.86 requires that beginning August 1 2026 a data broker access the mechanism at least once every forty-five days and process the deletion requests it finds there. Registration is separately enforced: the Delete Act sets an administrative fine of USD 200 for each day a broker fails to register. SB 361, signed October 8 2025, widened what a registered broker must disclose, including the categories of personal information it collects and whether it has shared data with foreign actors, government agencies, law enforcement, or developers of generative AI systems, which is a disclosure most SaaS teams cannot answer without instrumentation they have not built. Engineering-wise this is not a policy page. It requires an automated job that polls DROP on a schedule, matches submitted identifiers against your records with a documented matching methodology, cascades deletion into derived tables, search indexes, analytics warehouses, backups within your restore window, and downstream partners, and produces an audit record for every processed request. We build that as a first-class subsystem, and we run a scoping determination in discovery so you know whether you are in scope before you sign a customer.

SOC 2 Type II takes nine to fourteen months from a standing start, most of which is the observation window rather than engineering. The engineering work is real but front-loaded, and it is far cheaper before launch than after. We build the control substrate into the codebase from week one: immutable audit logging on every privileged action, enforced change management through pull requests with required review, quarterly access reviews with exportable evidence, encryption at rest and in transit with documented key management, vendor inventory with review dates, automated vulnerability scanning in CI, and written incident response runbooks that have actually been tested. Evidence collection routes through Vanta, Drata, or Secureframe, which cuts the manual burden substantially but does not replace the underlying controls. We then coordinate with your chosen audit firm through readiness and the observation period. To be plain about the boundary: Codazz is an engineering firm, not an audit or attestation firm. We build the substrate that lets a licensed CPA firm issue an opinion without asking you to rewrite half the application six months into the window.

The CCPA was signed as AB 375 on June 28 2018 and took effect January 1 2020. The CPRA passed as Proposition 24 on November 3 2020, became fully operative January 1 2023, and enforcement began July 1 2023. California is unusual in having a dedicated regulator, the California Privacy Protection Agency, with its own rulemaking and enforcement authority. Inside the application that translates into five concrete builds. First, field-level classification at write time so you can answer what categories of personal information you hold without a manual audit. Second, a data subject access request endpoint that produces a structured export within the statutory window. Third, a deletion workflow that cascades across the primary store, search indexes, analytics warehouse, caches, backups within your restore policy, and downstream processors, with a completion record. Fourth, opt-out of sale and sharing including honoring the Global Privacy Control browser signal, which California treats as a valid opt-out request rather than an optional nicety. Fifth, a correction workflow, which the CPRA added and which most implementations still skip. The CPPA also finalized regulations adding annual cybersecurity audit obligations phased in by business size, so we build audit evidence generation rather than assembling it by hand later.

Instrument these before the seed round closes, not after a board member asks. ARR and its movement decomposed into new, expansion, contraction, and churn, because the aggregate number hides the story. Net dollar retention, which is the single most predictive number for a Series B conversation and which vertical SaaS buyers expect above 110 percent. Gross dollar retention separately, since strong expansion can mask a leaking base. Gross margin, which for vertical SaaS typically sits in the 65 to 75 percent band and for horizontal SaaS in the 75 to 85 percent band, calculated with hosting, support, and customer success actually loaded in. CAC and CAC payback period, with under eighteen months being the usual healthy threshold. Magic number above 0.75. Rule of 40, growth plus margin. For usage-based products, add consumption per account and the ratio of committed to overage revenue. We wire these into the analytics layer from the first sprint using Stripe data, product events through Segment or RudderStack, and a warehouse with a clean star schema your finance lead can query without engineering help.

Yes, with a clear-eyed view of what that path costs. Selling to a federal buyer usually means FedRAMP authorization, which is a program with its own timeline, a Third Party Assessment Organization, a sponsoring agency or the Program Management Office path, and a continuous monitoring obligation afterward. State and local buyers, including the City and County of San Diego and SANDAG, increasingly reference StateRAMP, which is a lighter but still substantial lift. If your product touches controlled unclassified information for a defense customer, CMMC enters the picture: the program rule at 32 CFR Part 170 has been in effect since December 2024, and the acquisition rule at 48 CFR was published September 10 2025 with the DFARS 252.204-7021 clause appearing in DoD solicitations from November 10 2025, with Phase 2 certification requirements starting November 10 2026. Architecturally that means deploying into AWS GovCloud US-West or Azure Government, keeping the boundary documented, and constraining administrative access appropriately. We are honest that our engineers work from Edmonton and Chandigarh, so where a program imposes US-person access constraints, we scope our work to layers outside the accredited boundary and staff accordingly.