Most early-stage startups don't have a security engineer — and most have real vulnerabilities in production right now. We find them in 48 hours.
A founder-friendly security review: real vulnerabilities in your shipped code, severity-ranked, with code-level fixes. Done before your next investor meeting.
Only 5 reviews per week · Next slot: this Thursday · No commitment
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Who this is for
We're not an enterprise consultancy. We built this specifically for founders and small teams who are shipping product and need to know where they stand on security — fast.
You've shipped your product, you have real users, and security keeps getting pushed to "next sprint." We do it for you — once, fast, without derailing your roadmap.
You moved fast to get to market. That's the right call — but fast code accumulates security debt. Before you scale users, let's find what's exposed.
LLM wrappers, inference endpoints, and AI APIs introduce unique attack surfaces — prompt injection, insecure tool calls, model data exfiltration. We know what to look for.
Payments, bank data, user PII — one misconfiguration and you're in breach territory. We give you confidence before you pitch investors or land enterprise customers.
Also a great fit if you're preparing for a fundraise, going through investor security due diligence, or onboarding your first enterprise customer who's asking about your security posture.
The reality for most startups
That's fine at day 1. But by the time you have real users and real data, the vulnerabilities you shipped in month 2 are still there — waiting.
API keys, database URLs, and Stripe secrets get committed in the rush to ship. Automated bots scan GitHub 24/7 and find them within minutes.
Homegrown auth systems and admin panels often skip server-side checks. A single missing middleware call can expose every user's data to anyone who knows the URL.
Default-open S3 buckets, overly permissive IAM roles, and staging environments with production data — set up fast and never revisited.
Due diligence, enterprise sales, SOC 2 prep — suddenly you need to show you've actually checked. "We'll look into it" isn't the answer they want.
None of these take a sophisticated attacker. They take 10 minutes and a Google search. We find them before anyone else does.
The deliverable
This isn't a questionnaire or a framework walkthrough. We look at your actual shipped code and infrastructure, find what's broken, and tell you exactly how to fix it.
Not just a surface-level scan. We review your repos, cloud config, auth flows, and API endpoints — the same places a real attacker would look.
Every finding is ranked by real business impact — not CVSS scores nobody reads. You'll know what to fix this week vs. what can wait a month.
Every finding includes the exact fix — code snippets, config changes, commands to run. Hand it to your dev and it's resolved, not debated.
Your security review includes
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Sample findings
Every item in your report follows this format — severity labeled, reproducible, and immediately actionable.
The application's JWT signing secret (JWT_SECRET=mysupersecret123) is hard-coded in src/auth/middleware.js:14 and committed to the public repository. An attacker can use this to forge valid authentication tokens for any user — including admins.
Reproduction
1. Clone repo from GitHub
2. Run node forge-token.js --user=admin
3. Use token in Authorization header → full admin access granted
Fix Recommendation
1. Rotate the secret immediately
2. Move to process.env.JWT_SECRET
3. Add .env to .gitignore
4. Audit git history & revoke exposed tokens
The S3 bucket prod-user-uploads-v2 has public read ACL enabled. It contains 4,200+ user-uploaded files including documents with PII. Any unauthenticated request to the bucket URL returns a full directory listing.
Reproduction
1. curl https://prod-user-uploads-v2.s3.amazonaws.com/
2. Returns XML with 4,217 object keys
3. Any file directly downloadable via URL
Fix Recommendation
1. Set bucket ACL to private in AWS console
2. Enable Block Public Access at account level
3. Use pre-signed URLs with 15-min expiry for file access
The POST /api/auth/reset-password endpoint accepts unlimited requests per IP. An attacker can enumerate valid email addresses and spam resets, degrading user experience and leaking account existence.
Fix Recommendation
Add express-rate-limit: 5 requests/15 min per IP. Return identical response for existing & non-existing emails to prevent enumeration.
Your full report will contain every finding in this format — ranked, reproducible, and ready to hand to a developer.
How it works
Three steps. Designed to fit around a founder's schedule — not a security consultant's.
Tell us your stack, what you've shipped, and what you're worried about. We know what questions to ask for each type of startup — SaaS, fintech, AI. No prep needed.
→ 30 minutes. Zero cost. Zero obligation.
You share read-only access to your repos and cloud console. We do the full review — scanning, manual analysis, testing — while you focus on your roadmap. No meetings, no back-and-forth.
→ 48 hours. You don't touch a thing.
We deliver a clear, ranked report and walk you through every finding on a call. You leave with a prioritized fix list your team can start on immediately — nothing abstract, nothing vague.
→ Walk away knowing exactly what to fix first.
Real findings
These are representative findings from recent audits. Every one of them was unknown to the founder before we started.
A SaaS startup's Stripe live API key, database connection string, and AWS credentials were all committed to a public GitHub repo. The repo had been public for 6 months.
B2B SaaS · Series Seed · 3 engineers
Resolved within 4 hours of report delivery
A fintech app's admin panel was protected by a frontend redirect — but the underlying API endpoints had no server-side auth checks. Any unauthenticated user could access all customer financial data directly.
Fintech · Pre-seed · 2 founders
Fixed before next investor demo
An e-commerce platform's order history API returned results based on a sequential integer ID in the URL with no ownership check. Any logged-in user could enumerate and read every other customer's orders.
E-commerce SaaS · Revenue-stage · 5 engineers
IDOR patched same day, no breach occurred
Why startups choose us
Traditional options weren't designed for startups. They're too slow, too expensive, or too unpredictable for a team at your stage.
Pricing
Priced for startups, not enterprise budgets. You know exactly what you're paying before you start.
MVP Security Review
For pre-seed and seed startups with a live product
Scale Security Review
For seed/Series A startups with real users and investor scrutiny
Going through a fundraise or enterprise sales process? Ask about our investor due diligence package. Starting at $299/mo for ongoing coverage.
That's exactly who this is for. The report is written to be understood and acted on by a developer — not interpreted by a security team. Every finding comes with the fix, so your engineers can implement it directly without needing to research the vulnerability themselves.
Yes. Many of our clients run a review before a fundraise or ahead of an enterprise sales process. The report demonstrates that you've proactively assessed your security posture — and gives you a clear remediation story if anything was found. Investors and enterprise buyers respond well to founders who've already done the work.
We sign an NDA before you share anything. We ask for read-only access to your code repositories and cloud console — you stay in full control throughout. We've never had a security incident related to client access, and we'll walk you through exactly what we need on the discovery call.
Yes. The clock starts once you've shared access. Full report and walkthrough call delivered within 48 business hours — or your money back, no questions asked.
Pre-launch is actually a great time to do this — you can fix things before anyone is exposed. We work with whatever you have: staging environments, early builds, or production code. We'd rather you find out before launch than after.
Book a free 30-minute call. We'll tell you the top three vulnerabilities we'd look for in your specific stack — no charge, no obligation, no sales pitch.
If we can't find anything worth fixing, the call was still free. If we do — you'll have a prioritized fix list in 48 hours.
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