A program designed for your stage
Scope, rules of engagement, safe harbor language, and a reward table calibrated to your product and budget — whether that's a private invite-only program, a public bounty, or a simple VDP to start.
Services AI-Accelerated Bug Bounty
AI-Accelerated Bug Bounty Program
A bounty program that pays researchers fast — and ships fixes faster.
We design and run your bug bounty end to end — scope, rules, rewards, researcher relations — with AI-accelerated triage that reproduces, deduplicates, and prioritizes reports in hours. Your engineers see only real, reachable bugs, each arriving with a drafted fix.
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What is an AI-accelerated bug bounty program?
A bug bounty program invites outside security researchers to find vulnerabilities in your product for rewards. The programs that thrive are the ones that triage fast, pay fairly, and ship fixes — that's what keeps great researchers submitting. An AI-accelerated program uses AI to reproduce, deduplicate, and severity-rank every report within hours and to draft the fix, while experienced security engineers validate what's real, set payouts, and see remediation through.
What you get
Triage in hours, not weeks
Every submission is reproduced, deduplicated, and severity-ranked by AI, then validated by a security engineer. Researchers get answers while they still care; you never pay twice for the same bug.
Fixes, not just findings
Valid reports flow into the same remediation pipeline as our vulnerability program — drafted as pull requests, reviewed by senior engineers, and verified dead before the report is closed.
A reputation researchers seek out
Fast triage and fair, fast payouts are what pull top researchers to a program. We handle every researcher interaction so your program earns that reputation from day one.
How it works
- 1
Design
Typically 1–2 weeks.We define scope and exclusions, write the rules and safe harbor, set the reward table, and stand the program up — on the platform that fits, or as a private program we run directly.
- 2
Launch
Private first, then widen.A private cohort of vetted researchers shakes out the obvious findings and tunes the scope. Once triage is boring and fixes are flowing, we widen the aperture on your terms.
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Operate
Ongoing.We run triage, payouts, researcher communication, and remediation cadence, with quarterly scope reviews as your product grows — so the program compounds instead of decaying.
AI-Accelerated Bug Bounty Program questions, answered
Aren't we too early for a bug bounty?
Possibly for a public one — that's a real answer we give. Many clients should start with a vulnerability disclosure policy or a small private program, then scale rewards as the easy findings dry up. The readiness check tells you which stage you're at, so every dollar and every researcher relationship counts from day one.
Will we drown in duplicates and junk reports?
That's the exact problem the AI triage layer exists to solve. Reproduction and deduplication happen automatically before a human ever reads the report, and a security engineer validates anything that survives. Your team sees a short list of real bugs — not an inbox.
Can the bounty cover our AI features?
Yes, and it should. We write AI-specific scope and rules — prompt injection, jailbreaks that create real exposure, data extraction, agent and tool abuse — with severity guidelines that reward genuine impact rather than screenshot theater.
How does this relate to penetration testing?
They're complements, not substitutes. A pentest is scheduled depth — experts systematically covering your attack surface. A bounty is continuous breadth — many eyes on the product between tests, catching what ships in the meantime. Enterprise buyers increasingly expect both.
What does it cost to run?
Two separate numbers, both under your control: the reward pool you set, and our operations — billed like everything we do, in 15-minute increments with an optional monthly cap. The readiness check comes back with a recommended reward table so there are no surprises.
The internet is full of world-class researchers. A well-run bounty puts them on your team.
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