Case Study: Flexport achieves 100% protected developer data and global privacy compliance with Tonic.ai

How Flexport Protects its Data and Empowers its Developers with Tonic

Flexport, a global logistics and supply chain company with 2,000+ employees, faced a complex data security challenge: how to give dozens of engineering teams realistic, usable data for development without exposing sensitive production information or risking non‑compliance with international privacy laws. To solve this, Flexport turned to Tonic.ai for a synthetic data solution that could scale across multiple relational databases and evolving schemas while remaining easy for developers and acceptable to security teams.

Tonic.ai deployed an on‑prem, Dockerized synthetic data platform that regenerates representative, non‑sensitive slices of Flexport’s production databases multiple times per day in line with schema migrations, giving each developer a personal, safe test database. As a result, 100% of Flexport’s developers now work exclusively with protected data, the company meets global privacy and SOC 2 requirements, and Security and Engineering can validate data protection more effectively—transforming Flexport’s data governance and accelerating international partnerships.

Flexport

Kevin Paige

Chief Information Security Officer