Manticore

ManticoreAI is an enterprise-grade AI-powered penetration testing platform built by operators with 15 years of offensive security experience. Founded in 2020 — five years before the LLM hype cycle — by former Trustwave SpiderLabs APAC Director Saeid Atabaki and former Verizon global cybersecurity practice leader John Loveland, the company's core technology is a kernel-level reasoning engine that drives tools like Burp, SQLMap, and Metasploit at the operator level rather than via HTTP wrappers. The platform delivers audit-grade penetration tests in 48 hours, with every report carrying CREST-certified consultant sign-off. ManticoreAI offers four integrated products: Assess (full pentest engagement), Defend (mitigation strategies derived from real exploit payloads), Fix (remediation guidance with pentest-agent-log context), and Continuous (pentest on every commit, wired into GitHub and Azure DevOps). The company is backed by Huey Lin (co-founder and former COO of Affirm) and is part of Cloudflare Workers Launchpad Cohort #5. ManticoreAI's proprietary inference runs on infrastructure it controls and does not send client code or findings to third-party AI providers.