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category

market profile

• text: Security teams face a gap between periodic penetration tests and continuously changing applications and code.
• text: AI-assisted software development increases review demand while application security buyers seek evidence of exploitable findings.

personas

• title: Head of application security or CISO
  pains:

  • Annual tests leave long intervals between assessments
  • Security findings need evidence, prioritization and a clear path to remediation
• title: Engineering leader
  pains:

  • Pull requests accumulate review and security work as teams ship faster
  • Disparate code quality and security checks interrupt developer workflows
• title: Compliance or security operations leader
  pains:

  • Needs documented security testing for customer and compliance reviews
  • Must coordinate retesting and validation of findings

icp

• text: Software businesses operating internet-facing applications and APIs, especially teams with ongoing security and compliance requirements.
• text: Engineering organizations using GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or Azure DevOps and seeking security in pull request workflows.

message pillars

• text: Connect external exposure to remediation in code and internal systems.
• text: Bring continuous assessment into the development lifecycle.
• text: Prioritize proof of real issues over noisy findings.
• text: Reduce the financial barrier to an initial pentest.

objections

• objection: Will automated findings be actionable rather than noisy?
  response: The company emphasizes proof and remediation context; evaluate precision and evidence on a scoped assessment.
• objection: Can this fit existing developer workflows?
  response: CodeAnt lists repository, CI and collaboration integrations; verify the specific deployment and permissions required.
• objection: How is pentesting charged?
  response: The pricing page says there is no charge without a high or critical finding; confirm the full terms for the chosen scope.

competitors

• name: Aikido Security
  why: Combines developer security scanning with automated pentesting offerings.
• name: Invicti
  why: Web application security testing and agentic pentesting.
• name: Sonar
  why: Code quality and security analysis in developer workflows.

keywords

• AI penetration testing
• continuous application security
• automated pentest platform
• AI code security review
• SAST SCA platform
• pull request security scanning
• external attack surface monitoring

voice

• direct
• security practitioner-oriented
• proof-focused

signals

• text: A company is preparing for a security audit or customer compliance review and needs a pentest.
• text: An engineering team is shipping frequent changes and wants to reduce security review delays.
• text: Security leaders are consolidating scanning, attack surface monitoring and pentest workflows.

stack

• GitHub
• GitLab
• Bitbucket
• Jira
• Slack
• Azure DevOps

hiring

• Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
• Security Researcher
• GTM Engineer
• Content Distribution & Community Growth Lead
• Growth Marketing Manager
• Framer Visual Designer

pricing

motion

channels

• SEO
• LinkedIn
• security research
• website
• YC launch

confidence

Founders

• name: Amartya Jha
  title: Founder/CEO
  role: CEO
  bio: Amartya Jha, Co-Founder and CEO, CodeAnt AI, ships zero-days for fun. CVE-2026-29000, CVSS 10.0, full auth bypass in pac4j-jwt. CVE-2026-28292, CVSS 9.8, RCE in simple-git. Two of 87 zero-days he dropped across packages downloaded 1.85 billion times a month. Now, building offensive and defensive security in one self-learning system at CodeAnt AI.
• name: Chinmay Bharti
  title: Founder/CTO
  role: CTO
  bio: Chinmay Bharti, Co-Founder and CTO, CodeAnt AI, architected the engine behind the 100+ CVEs CodeAnt AI disclosed. Previously worked in HFTs. IIT Bombay, Electrical Engineering. Now building offensive and defensive security in one self-learning system at CodeAnt AI.