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PENTESTS YOUR FIRM CAN RUN THE SAME WAY TWICEVariance you didn't price in

A pentest is onlyas good asthe contractorassigned to it.

Different person every year. Different test every time. Recon, triage, lateral movement, all of it lives in a human's head, not a script. Same firm, same scope, next year, you get a different test from a different contractor and call it the same audit.

Repeatable engagementStays identical / 4
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Dispatch
Identical specialist roster, every run
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Coverage
Same OWASP categories, same depth
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Audit trail
Bit-for-bit reproducible
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Report
Same shape, diffable across quarters
Same scope. Same depth.every quarter →
SWARMSEC.AI / AUTOMATED PENETRATION TESTINGDETERMINISTIC DISPATCH · FULL AUDIT TRAIL · FREE RE-RUN

What you can't see

Three things the firmwon't tell youbefore they cash the check.

Compliance forces you to bring in a third party. It doesn't say it has to be whoever the boutique could spare this quarter.

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The firm sells you the firm’s name. The work product is whoever wasn’t booked.

Boutique pentest firms staff engagements off the bench. The senior who closed your last review is on a retainer six clients deep; your 2026 audit lands with the new hire who finished training in March. The methodology, the depth of testing, and the polish of the writeup all swing on whichever consultant happens to be open the week your engagement starts.

A Swarm engagement ships the same shape every time: same specialist roster, same coverage map, same report sections in the same order. You can diff two consecutive quarters as a sanity check.

ReceiptSwarm’s deliverable: same shape every engagement
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Recon, triage, hypothesis-forming live in the contractor’s head, not a script.

A human pentester walks the surface, forms a mental model, decides which hypotheses to chase. None of that is written down. The next contractor next year starts from zero. They’ll find different things. They’ll miss different things. The report still arrives bound in the same firm’s template, so the variance reads as continuity.

Swarm specialists are tuned for a single class of attack and dispatched against the same surface map every run. The variance moves from human judgment to model behavior; the model is fixed per role until the next frontier upgrade.

ReceiptSwarm’s coverage: 4 standards, mapped per category
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Run the same scope next quarter and you’ll get a different test.

There is no scriptable methodology in a human-firm engagement. The engagement is the senior’s instincts plus the boutique’s checklist plus whatever the consultant remembers from last quarter. You can’t re-run it; you can only re-hire it, and the shape of the work depends on who picks up the bench slot.

Swarm’s dispatch is deterministic. The same target, the same stack, the same specialist roster, every time. When a frontier model upgrade ships, paying customers get a free re-run on the new model so the deterministic baseline keeps pace.

ReceiptFree re-run on every frontier-model upgrade
contractor

stands between your stack and your next breach.

You'll never meet them.

COMPLIANCE GOT THE FIRM'S NAME · YOUR STACK GOT THE NEXT AVAILABLE

The replacement

We replaced the contractorwith agents tuned for one role.

One specialist per attack class. Same roster every engagement. The variance moves from a human's instincts to a model whose behavior is pinned per role and refreshed only on a frontier-model upgrade.

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Recon

Map every endpoint, every framework, every footgun. Manual scanners run a fixed signature set. The swarm runs against your actual surface.

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Triage

Specialists own classes of attack. Auth flaws. Access control. Injection. Logic. Each agent probes its vector and cites the request that proved it.

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Exploit

Verified PoC for every Critical and High. Multi-step chains are first-class. The chain analyst composes findings into one exploit path.

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Report

Markdown narrative. Full audit trail. JSON for tooling. Your auditor reads the action that matches the verdict.

The differentiator

Receipts on every finding.

Every tool call. Every request. Every grep. Every submit. Every verify. Streams to the dashboard live and ships with the report. Your SOC 2 reviewer doesn't have to take our word for it. They open action 1,847 and read what we did.

audit trail · engagement 0a9b3 · actions 142–1501,847 actions · 312KB
014214:11:08[recon]http_request GET /api/internal/health200
014314:11:09[recon]http_request GET /api/internal/users?role=admin200
014414:11:10[auth]submit_finding token-leak in /api/internal/usershigh
014514:11:32[broken-access]source_grep authorize\(.*role7 hits
014614:11:48[broken-access]http_request POST /api/role/upgrade403
014714:12:14[broken-access]http_request POST /api/role/upgrade -H X-Forwarded-User: admin200
014814:12:15[broken-access]submit_finding privilege bypass via X-Forwarded-Usercritical
014914:12:32[chain]submit_finding CHAIN-2 IDOR + role bypass = full takeovercritical
015014:13:08[reviewer]verify CHAIN-2 reproducible against live targetsealed
Continued through engagement completionSealed and signed
200Successful response or benign result
highVerified high-severity finding
criticalVerified critical finding or chain

The price

One number. Read the receipts.

No per-target pricing. No per-finding pricing. No "starts from". One engagement, one fee, one audit trail.

$4,995
Flat per engagement
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30+ specialists
chain_analyst · idor · prompt_injection · broken_access · +26 more
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Verified PoC
Every Critical and High, reproducible
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Audit trail
Every action logged, evidence-grade
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Signed report
Cryptographically attested. Auditor-deliverable. Prospect-ready.
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30-day retest
Free verification once you fix
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SOC 2 evidence
Auditor-ready, no extra prep
Start engagementFree preview before you pay anything.

Questions

What buyers ask. Receipts attached.

The questions every engineering and security lead asks before they fund an engagement. Read the answers here, before the kickoff call.

01Will the same engagement run twice in a row produce the same results?

Yes. Specialist dispatch is deterministic. Same target, same stack, same specialist roster. Model selection is fixed per role; any frontier-model upgrade ships as a free re-run for paying customers (see /mythos for the commitment). Compare against a human firm: same scope next quarter, you get a different consultant and the depth depends on their week.

02What is automated penetration testing?

Automated penetration testing uses software agents to attack a target the way a human pen tester would. They map the attack surface, form hypotheses, validate exploits. Swarm dispatches 30+ specialist agents in coordinated phases against your authorized target and ships an audit-grade report with the full forensic audit trail.

03How long does an automated pen test take?

A Swarm engagement typically completes in roughly two hours, including the closing-sequence chain analysis and validated proof-of-concept generation. Compare against the two-to-four-week timeline of an annual pentest from a human firm.

04Is automated pen testing as thorough as manual?

For coverage of the OWASP Top 10 (Web), API Top 10, LLM Top 10, and Agentic Apps Top 10, Swarm covers 9 of 10 categories across all 4 standards. For deep social engineering, on-prem hardware testing, or multi-month APT-hypothesis engagements, hire a senior firm. For the audit-grade SaaS pen test most companies need annually, automated is more thorough because every action is receipted in the audit trail.

05Does automated penetration testing satisfy SOC 2 11.4?

A Swarm engagement is designed to satisfy the penetration-testing requirements of SOC 2 Type 2 audits (Trust Services Criteria CC4 and CC7). The full audit trail satisfies the evidentiary requirements your external auditor reviews. See /compliance for the full mapping.

06Can I run automated pen tests on production?

Yes, with explicit per-action approval gates for any non-read-only operation. Swarm specialists run in read-only mode by default; destructive actions require approval before execution.

07What does the deliverable include?

Markdown report, PDF render, structured findings in the dashboard, validated proof-of-concept for every Critical and High finding, and the full audit trail of every specialist action. Free retest within 30 days of remediation.

08Does Swarm support free retest?

Yes. Every engagement includes a free retest within 30 days of remediation. The retest re-runs the validated PoC against your live environment and produces a diff report.

09What stacks does Swarm cover?

Customer codebases run on Node, Python, Go, Ruby, Elixir, JVM, .NET, PHP, with Clerk, Auth0, Okta, Stytch, Cognito, Firebase, Supabase Auth, or custom IDPs. Specialists describe the mechanic first; stack-specific paths and library names appear only as illustrative anchors.

Read the receipts.
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