The long tail finally gets a security team →

An autonomous operator for every server.

Michael detects, contains, and explains attacks on your software, servers, and AI systems in under two seconds. It costs less than your hosting bill.

No server? Vercel, Render, Netlify, cPanel and shared hosting are covered by the free dashboard: one install command, lockfile-accurate findings, and virtual patches that deploy themselves.

vps-prod-02 · incident 48211Guard active
02:14:07detectphp-fpm opened outbound beacon to 185.x.x.x
02:14:07decideweb shell pattern, confidence 0.97, cost $0.0001
02:14:08containprocess frozen, egress blocked, disk snapshot saved
02:14:09recordevidence sealed in hash-chained audit log
02:14:09readyone-click rollback available. Owner notified.
Time to contain
1.8s
Decisions on cheap tiers
97%

Built for the teams that never had a SOC

Indie developersAgenciesVPS fleetsFintechSchoolsHospitalsHosting providers

Attacks went machine-speed. Defence stayed human-speed.

The tools that could help cost $60 to $230 per endpoint a year, or $150k+, and are sold to companies that already have a SOC.

1,100+

attack projects run by one operator with an open-source AI agent, breaching 100+ companies at about $50 per site.

70%

of the web exposed by PHP2Shell in a single week, alongside a GitLab CVSS 10.0 and a LiteLLM credential stealer.

10M

servers with no security team. Their owners are searching “am I affected” at midnight.

Typical enterprise tools
$60 to $230

per endpoint per year, or $150k+ per year for a platform.

Michael
$0 to $29

per server per month, free forever for your first one.

Four products. One operator.

Guard is live in this build. Sword, Halo, and Pulse share the same evidence and decision layer.

Guard

Detection that acts, not alerts

Runtime, network, web, and identity coverage with autonomous response inside your policy guardrails.

# policy.yml on web_shell.detected: contain: [freeze_process, block_egress, snapshot] require_approval: false # low blast radius rollback: enabled
Sword

Authorised offence

Proves what is exploitable on your own estate, under signed authorisation.

recon→exploit→proof attached
Halo

Supply chain and AI-BOM

Verifies artifacts, provenance, update channels, and agent egress.

Pulse

Advisory to detection, on a public clock

New advisories become detections, and coverage time is published for anyone to check.

PHP2Shell detection live
LiteLLM credential stealer detection live
GitLab CVSS 10.0 detection live

Cheap by design. Smart where it counts.

Most events never reach a large model, so deep protection costs about the same as a coffee a month.

Known bad

Rules

Instant, free, and deterministic.

Most
Per workload

Learned baseline

ML tuned to what normal looks like on each server.

Many
Typed model

Decision model

Picks the response for about $0.0001 per decision.

$0.0001
Ambiguous only

LLM

Used only to explain the hard cases in plain language.

3%
Blended inference
$0.13 per server per month

Typed decision models made per-event AI about 400× cheaper, and eBPF made deep host visibility fit in 150 MB.

The proof is running now.

A deliberately vulnerable portal on the live host. Michael probes it, records real findings, applies a data-only virtual patch, and blocks the exploit through a separate proxy. The app underneath stays unpatched.

Direct to the app
302

SQL injection accepts the login. Command injection returns LAB_CMD_MARKER. Traversal reads the login source.

Through Michael Shield
403

All four vectors blocked, including a 300 KB body-cap test. Every block is written to the audit chain.

Rollback
403 → 302 → 403

Revoke the rule and the exploit works again. Re-probe and the rule is back. That is the whole lifecycle.

The bottom of the market is open for 18 to 24 months.

Incumbents are moving up-market. Google bought Wiz for $32B and left the people who need protection most behind.

$34B

cloud security in 2026, growing to $59B by 2031

$109B

small business security spend

$39B

managed security service providers

$10B+

serviceable per year across 8M SMBs and 150k hosts

$2.6M ARR in 3 years494 customersBreak-even month 11 to 12Gross margin above 85%CAC payback under 9 months

Pricing that scales from one server to a bank.

The agent and its local console are open source under Apache-2.0 and free forever for one server. The control plane stays ours.

Watch
$0

Apps on Vercel, Render, cPanel and shared hosting — no server needed.

Protect free
Most popularGuard
$29 /server/mo

Startups, agencies, and VPS fleets.

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Command
$12k /yr

50 servers. SMB, fintech, schools, hospitals.

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Sovereign
$60k+ /yr

Banks, government, and regulated industries.

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MSP
$12 /server

Wholesale for hosting providers and MSSPs.

Become a partner

Questions, answered

What happens if Michael contains something by mistake?

Every action is reversible. Michael acts inside the guardrails you set, keeps the evidence, and gives you one-click rollback. In the live lab you can watch the rule come out and the exploit return.

How do I know why it acted?

Each decision ships with its evidence and lands in a hash-chained audit trail. Editing a row breaks verification at that entry, and the console shows you the head of the chain.

Is the offensive side safe to run on my systems?

Authorised offence only: your own estate, a signed scope, and read-only proof payloads. The live lab refuses any hostname that is not loopback.

What does the free plan include?

One server, forever, with the open-source agent. Paid plans add the fleet, the decision brain, the autonomy, and the offence.

Can hosting providers resell it?

Yes. The MSP plan is $12 per server wholesale for hosting providers and MSSPs.

Why this is possible now

400×

Cheaper decisions

Typed decision models cost about $0.0001 per decision. Blended inference is around $0.13 per server per month.

150 MB

Deep visibility

eBPF made host-level visibility fit in a footprint a $5 VPS can carry.

18–24

Months of open market

Incumbents are consolidating up-market, as Google buying Wiz for $32B shows, and the bottom is open.

Security’s economics broke. Michael closes the gap.

For the people who need protection most and can afford it least. Be one of the first ten design partners.

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