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Scope one real boundary
Select one product and agree the code, artifact, live target, authorization, and business context that make the evaluation credible.
Founding Security Cohort · applications close August 12
Turn one real product into a verified security outcome in 30 days.
A founder-assisted ZeroQuarry evaluation for software companies with meaningful application-security pressure and no dedicated AppSec platform team. Scope one product, investigate it, challenge the findings, act on what holds up, retest the work, and leave with current evidence.
Up to 10 companies30 days$1,000 guided baseline$1,920/year continuation
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SCOPEOne product boundary
Choose an authorized repository, release, binary, or application and define what a useful result must change.
DECIDEValidate what holds up
Challenge claims, record human outcomes, and keep rejected results out of active risk.
SHIPFix, retest, and prove
Move accepted work into remediation and finish with current evidence of the outcome.
applications close August 12, 2026
The outcome
Not another scanner trial that ends with an alert queue.
The cohort is designed around completed security work. The scan is the beginning, not the deliverable.
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Run a baseline assessment
Investigate the product with deterministic candidates and AI agents, then preserve the source, reasoning, evidence, and project history.
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Challenge the claims
Use separate adversarial review, proof, and human disposition so weak results do not quietly become engineering work.
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Move valid work to fixes
Open GitHub issues, propose controlled patches, or route work through the system your engineering team already uses.
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Retest the result
Verify whether remediation changed the original risk and keep regressions or unresolved decisions visible.
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Package current evidence
Leave the 30 days with a security report and a durable record of findings, decisions, remediation, and retest status.
Good fit
You have security pressure before you have AppSec headcount.
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A customer, auditor, launch, or risky product boundary has made application security materially important.
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An engineering leader can authorize one real product boundary and review what ZeroQuarry finds.
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The team wants validated remediation and evidence, not the largest possible alert count.
Not a fit
The cohort is not a shortcut to a compliance stamp.
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You need a particular certification or assessor opinion without confirming its acceptance requirements.
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No engineer can review findings, make risk decisions, or act on valid remediation during the 30 days.
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The target is not yours or you do not have explicit authorization to test it.
Why not Cursor, Codex, or an internal build?
Use coding agents for code. Use ZeroQuarry to operate the security decision.
A coding agent can find and fix real bugs. The commercial question is whether your team also wants to build the authorization, skeptical review, human decision trail, remediation workflow, retesting, and reporting around every result.
| What the team needs | Coding agent or one-off prompt | ZeroQuarry | Build it internally |
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| Primary job | Explore, explain, or change code in a developer session. | Run an authorized finding-to-fix security lifecycle. | Own and maintain a custom security platform. |
| Skeptical review | Depends on the prompt and context the operator assembles. | Separate investigator and adversarial-review roles, followed by human disposition. | Design, evaluate, and maintain the agent chain and quality bar. |
| Decision record | Usually a chat, patch, or ad hoc artifact. | Traceable evidence, confidence, status, rationale, remediation, and retest history. | Build the data model, controls, integrations, and reporting. |
| Engineering handoff | Suggest or implement a code change. | Route accepted work into issues or controlled patch proposals, then retest the original risk. | Connect every repository, approval path, ticketing system, and CI policy. |
| Customer or audit use | A useful input, but not a durable security operating record by itself. | A current report plus the evidence and human decisions behind it. | Create and govern your own evidence package and review process. |
| Best fit | A developer investigating or fixing a specific concern. | A software team under security pressure before dedicated AppSec-platform headcount. | A well-funded security team that wants platform engineering to be a core capability. |
The cohort makes this a falsifiable purchase decision: if the managed workflow is not materially more useful than your existing coding-agent stack, stop after the 30-day evaluation.
The 30-day plan
A time-boxed path to a continue-or-stop decision.
Each company starts from its own product and security trigger. The operating sequence stays bounded and comparable.
Kickoff and boundary
Agree the target, authorization, product context, success condition, execution policy, and model-funding choice.
Baseline and review
Run the first assessment, inspect the attack-surface plan, and challenge findings before assigning work.
Decisions and remediation
Record valid, invalid, accepted-risk, and mitigated outcomes; move the work that matters into fixes.
Retest and evidence
Verify remediation, assemble the current report, quantify the outcome, and make an explicit commercial decision.
What ZeroQuarry commits
Founder attention, honest boundaries, and measurable outcomes.
ZeroQuarry will help scope the first product, review the workflow with your team, investigate failures, and finish with an outcome review. The product will not be presented as a replacement for a certification, assessor, or every form of human penetration testing.
What participating teams commit
One real product and candid decisions.
Participating teams provide an authorized target, an accountable technical reviewer, and direct feedback about what was useful, wrong, or commercially valuable. Public attribution or a testimonial is never required.
Commercial terms
A paid evaluation with no stranded pilot fee.
The cohort is intended for teams making a real continue-or-stop decision, not collecting another free security report.
$1,000 once
Scope, kickoff, first baseline assessment, working review, and the final commercial decision session.
$1,920 / year
Select annual Coverage at the final review and apply the full $1,000 baseline credit, leaving $920 for the first annual subscription.
Bring your keys
Use account-managed model keys, or separately fund hosted model usage with costs kept visible.
No long-term commitment is required to run the guided baseline. Teams that need to validate fit before purchasing may apply first; payment begins only after ZeroQuarry and the team agree the boundary, success criteria, and decision date.
Cohort application
Start with the boundary and the decision.
Applying does not create an account or charge anything. ZeroQuarry will confirm fit, authorization, success criteria, model funding, the $1,000 fee, the $1,920 annual Coverage continuation price, and a decision date before the guided baseline begins.
- One real product, repository, release, or authorized application
- One accountable technical reviewer
- One current security, customer, audit, or launch trigger
- One explicit continue-or-stop decision within 30 days
Applications close August 12.
Bring one real product and leave with an explicit security outcome and commercial decision in 30 days. Continue on annual Coverage at $1,920 per year and the full $1,000 baseline fee is credited.