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Cybersecurity · Risk reduction

Secrets exposure detection and response that finds the real leak, fast.

Find exposed credentials across approved sources, validate safely, identify blast radius, and orchestrate owner-approved rotation and cleanup.

◆ human-gateda person approves every consequential action
$24,000
fixed-scope pilot
Enterprise / regulated launch
launch posture
High current buying momentum
market signal
secrets-exposure-detection-and-response
// detect and deduplicate
input: Potential secret and location
step: classify secret type
citations: [ source ✓ ]   confidence: 0.93
HUMAN GATEawaiting review →

Nothing is finalized until a human approves it.

Built for
The buyer
CISO, VP Engineering, Chief Risk Officer
The champion
Application Security Director, DevSecOps leader, Incident Response manager
Day-to-day users
Developers, AppSec, SOC and platform teams

Designed, built, and evaluated by Alpesh Nakrani, VP of Growth at ViitorCloud, 14 years shipping software, writing on AI-Native engineering and evaluation.

Evals-first
built in from day one
Human-gated
judgment stays with you
The problem

Where the time and money actually go.

Secrets appear in repositories, logs, tickets, images, and collaboration tools; scanners generate duplicates while teams struggle to determine validity and ownership.

Who feels it

Developers, AppSec, SOC and platform teams

Trigger to act: A credential leak occurred, developer velocity increases secret sprawl, audit findings cite weak controls, or multiple scanners create unmanageable noise.

Outcome & ROI

The result you can model before you sign.

Illustrative, replace with your data
$11,250
per month, illustrative

Illustrative only: 1,500 secret alerts/month × 5 minutes removed × $90 loaded hourly cost ÷ 60 = $11,250 monthly capacity. Avoided breach loss is not guaranteed ROI.

The outcome, plainly: Find exposed credentials across approved sources, validate safely, identify blast radius, and orchestrate owner-approved rotation and cleanup.

True-secret precision
Exposed-secret recall
Time to owner
How it works

Inputs in. A cited, review-ready result out. Your expert decides.

A read-only security investigation agent. Every material fact is grounded in an allowed source and returned with its identifier, with no invented data.

01
Detect and deduplicate
02
Classify secret type
03
Identify owner and resource
04
Perform non-destructive validation if approved
05
Estimate exposure
06
Create incident
07
Trigger approved rotation workflow
08
Verify cleanup
Reference architecturegrounded · human-in-the-loop · fully auditable
Source systems · scoped access
Source repositories
Secret scanning
CI logs
Cloud/log platforms
Ticket/chat connectors with authorization
Grounded reasoning core
Retrieve & extract
grounded on your sources, returns citations
Reason & draft
Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra
Human gateSecurity and resource owners approve validation method, revocation/rotation, incident severity, history rewrite, and customer notification.
Action · only after approval
Verify cleanup
Audit trace
sources, rules, confidence, reviewer
Tenant isolation
minimum data, never cross-tenant
Evaluation suite
baselined pre-launch, watched after
Observability
cost, latency & drift telemetry
Model strategy

Claude Sonnet 4.6 or GPT-5.6 Terra, selected on the client’s code/security golden set; deterministic scanners, policy rules and tests remain authoritative; use a smaller model for labeling only. Read-only tool adapters; sandboxed execution; static analysis / test framework.

Inputs
  • Potential secret and location
  • Type/provider
  • Commit/history
  • Owner
  • Resource access
  • Usage telemetry
The human gate

AI-Native, not autonomous. Judgment stays with your people.

The machine does the work; the human’s role narrows to the one thing that matters, judgment. That constraint is what makes it safe to deploy.

Non-negotiable human gate

Security and resource owners approve validation method, revocation/rotation, incident severity, history rewrite, and customer notification.

What it will never do
No use of exposed credentials
No intrusive validation
No autonomous mass revocation that can cause outage
No secret content sent to unapproved model endpoints
The scorecard

A scorecard, not a demo. We baseline what breaks in production.

Every deployment ships with an evaluation suite. These are the numbers we baseline before launch and monitor after.

Primary
True-secret precision
Exposed-secret recall
Time to owner
Time to revoke
Duplicate suppression
Recurrence
Validation safety
Critical leaked-secret age
Why this, not that

The category is crowded. Most of it isn’t built for your workflow.

The alternatives
GitHub Secret ScanningGitGuardianTruffleHogGitleaksSpectralSnykCloud-native secret detectorsIncident workflows
This implementation

Fixed-scope, tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in from day one. A price you own, not a subscription you rent.

✓ Fixed price, not a seat subscription ✓ Grounded in your data & rules ✓ Human approval on consequential actions ✓ Auditable decision trace
Systems & integrations

It plugs into the stack you already run.

No rip-and-replace. Access is scoped to the minimum data necessary, isolated per tenant, and fully logged.

Source repositoriesSecret scanningCI logsCloud/log platformsTicket/chat connectors with authorizationSecret managerIAMIncident/ticketing
Pricing

Transparent by design. The build price buys the workflow and the proof.

A fixed implementation fee plus a monthly bill that scales with volume and governance. No hidden seats.

Pilot
$24,000
one-time · bounded proof of value
  • One process / scope
  • Live workflow on your data
  • Baseline evaluation suite
  • Measured vs. current process
Most chosen
Production
$56,000
one-time · full deployment
  • Full scope & integration
  • Human-review UI & audit trail
  • Write-back to your systems
  • Production evals & monitoring
Enterprise
$94,000
one-time · multi-entity / regulated
  • Multi-facility rollout
  • Advanced security & compliance
  • Custom control & escalation
  • Dedicated evaluation program
Monthly operating cost

25,000 to 1,000,000 security events per month; SIEM/export charges can dominate.

$1,550–18,200
usage (models, OCR, vector, storage)
$3,800/mo
managed evaluation & monitoring

Planning assumptions, not vendor quotations. Your source repositories and other platform licenses are separate and owned by you. Figures confirmed during scoping.

On working with Alpesh
“His vast knowledge of technologies and a natural problem-solving mindset consistently lead us through complex challenges with clarity and confidence.”
AM
Adil Multani
Senior Backend Developer
Why this is safe to try
01Baseline first. We measure your current numbers before we build anything.
02Fixed scope, fixed price. One process in the pilot. No open-ended engagement.
03Expand only if the scorecard earns it. You see the measured result before committing to production.
04Your people stay in control. The human gate means nothing consequential happens without a person’s approval.
FAQ

Questions serious buyers ask.

Does the AI act on its own?

No. Security and resource owners approve validation method, revocation/rotation, incident severity, history rewrite, and customer notification. The system drafts and recommends; a human approves every consequential action. Explicitly excluded: no use of exposed credentials; no intrusive validation; no autonomous mass revocation that can cause outage; no secret content sent to unapproved model endpoints.

How do you stop it inventing facts?

Every material claim is grounded in an allowed source record and returned with its source identifier. The system separates observed facts, model inference, and missing information, and routes to a human whenever confidence is low, evidence conflicts, or an adverse outcome is possible.

What does it cost to run each month?

A usage bill of roughly $1,550 to $18,200 per month (25,000 to 1,000,000 security events per month; SIEM/export charges can dominate), plus a $3,800 per month managed retainer for evaluation, monitoring and maintenance. Your existing platform licenses are separate and already yours. Exact figures are confirmed during scoping.

Do we need a ChatGPT or Claude subscription?

No consumer ChatGPT or Claude subscription is required for the production workflow. You need an approved API/cloud billing account. Workspace seats are optional for internal prototyping and administrator access.

How is this different from GitHub Secret Scanning?

Tools like GitHub Secret Scanning, GitGuardian, and TruffleHog are broad platforms you adapt to. This is a fixed-scope implementation tuned to your systems and rules, grounded in your data, with the human gate and audit trail built in, and a transparent price instead of a seat subscription.

How long until it is live, and how do we prove it works?

We baseline true-secret precision first, then measure against that baseline. You see the scorecard before expanding scope: the evaluation suite ships with the system, not as an afterthought.

Book a scoping call

Bring your real numbers. Leave with a fixed-scope plan.

A 30-minute engineering-led working session, no slideware. You leave with a sized opportunity estimate, a fixed-scope pilot plan, and the integration & human-review path mapped.

VP of Growth at ViitorCloud · senior delivery owner confirmed before paid work

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