The Challenge: Blaxel had strong security foundations from day one, but as enterprise deals like Webflow came in, they needed to prove it, without pulling engineers into weeks of compliance busywork.
The Solution: Probo provided a dedicated compliance partner who worked directly with the team, handling formalization and documentation while Blaxel stayed focused on building.
The Results:
- Closed Webflow deal with full compliance requirements met
- SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA frameworks in place
- Minimal disruption to engineering velocity
About Blaxel
Blaxel is building the infrastructure AI agents actually need.
Most sandboxes today are disposable. They spin up, expire after a few hours or days, and lose all context. Developers are forced to rebuild state from scratch or build complex orchestration layers just to keep things running.
Blaxel took a different approach.
They built a perpetual sandbox platform: environments that behave more like a laptop for AI agents. Agents keep their context. Execution resumes in milliseconds.
When you’re hosting agents, inference, memory, and customer workloads in the same backbone, security is not a feature. It’s part of the product.
From day one, Blaxel treated it that way.
Strong security foundations, but no time for compliance overhead
Blaxel is a small, senior team based in San Francisco. About ten people building deep AI infrastructure.
Security had always been taken seriously. Architecture decisions were thoughtful. Access controls were clean. Infrastructure was designed properly.
But as the company started engaging larger customers, something became clear: being secure isn’t enough.
You need to prove it.
That moment became real when a major opportunity landed on the table: Webflow.
The type of deal you don’t want to miss. But it came with detailed security questionnaires, compliance expectations, and formal requirements around SOC 2 and governance.
The foundations were there. But they needed formalism.
Blaxel didn’t want engineers pulled into writing policies for weeks. They didn’t want to over-invest energy into documentation formatting or compliance theater. They needed to formalize what already existed.
That’s when they decided to work with Probo.
A dedicated compliance partner, not just a tool
Blaxel wasn’t looking for software.
They were looking for someone to own the process with them.
Through Probo, they worked with a dedicated compliance officer who integrated directly with the team. Slack conversations replaced long email threads. Technical questions were discussed in real time. When there was uncertainty about the most secure or compliant way to implement something, Probo was there to advise.
Probo helped us think through technical security decisions when we weren’t sure what the best compliant approach was. They were always available on Slack to guide us on how to stay secure while moving fast.
Paul Sinai, CEO & Co-founder of Blaxel
SOC 2 first. Then everything else.
The first milestone was SOC 2.
Once that foundation was in place, the rest became structured instead of chaotic. Rather than treating ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA, and HIPAA as separate initiatives, the work was mapped intelligently. Controls were reused where possible. Real gaps were identified and closed. Redundant work was avoided.
The result wasn’t compliance for the sake of badges. It was a coherent trust framework that supported Blaxel’s growth.
Signing Webflow without slowing down
Compliance didn’t become a distraction.
It became leverage.
With Probo managing the structure behind SOC 2 and aligning the broader frameworks, Blaxel was able to move efficiently through Webflow’s compliance requirements and close the deal.
Probo helped us sign our biggest deal by handling SOC 2 and other compliance frameworks efficiently, so our team could keep focusing on product.
Paul Sinai, CEO & Co-founder of Blaxel
For a company building critical infrastructure for AI agents, trust is part of the offering. Now, with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA in place, Blaxel can approach enterprise and regulated customers with confidence.
And internally, the team kept doing what matters most: building.
