Hoot is a self hosted AI security agent. It maps your attack surface, finds vulnerabilities, validates them, and ships audit ready reports mapped to your compliance framework — without any of your data ever leaving your network.
Most companies cover security with three things: an annual third party pentest, an automated scanner, and a security engineer pulled away from their real work whenever something smells off. Each has a structural problem.
$30K to $100K per engagement. Two to four weeks of testing, then twelve months of nothing. By the time the report lands, half the findings are already irrelevant and the codebase has moved on. Auditors love it. Attackers don't care about it.
Cheap and constant, but pattern matched. They catch known CVEs and miss everything that requires reasoning: authentication flaws, business logic, multi step exploits, IDOR. They also bury your team in false positives.
A senior security engineer costs $200K+ fully loaded and they can't cover every release, every microservice, every new integration. Hiring one in 2026 takes six to nine months.
Targets, exclusions, the compliance frameworks that matter to you. Hoot enforces scope on every action. Nothing out of bounds is ever touched.
Pick a mode and start. Hoot reconnoiters, identifies vulnerabilities, validates them (no false positives that can't be reproduced), and writes them up as you go.
Findings land with severity, evidence, remediation steps, and a compliance framework mapping. Export as PDF for auditors, JSON for your SIEM, or push to your ticket system.
Three engagement modes give you the level of oversight you want: Autonomous (agent runs end to end), Plan First (agent maps the attack surface, you approve before any test fires), and Manual (agent suggests, you direct every step). Pause, redirect, or take over at any moment.
Authentication and session handling, injection (SQL, NoSQL, template, command), cross site scripting, request smuggling, SSRF, business logic flaws, parameter tampering. Tests both the obvious patterns and the multi step paths a scanner misses.
Authorization (IDOR, BOLA, function level), rate limiting, JWT handling, GraphQL introspection and authorization, REST endpoint discovery, schema enumeration, mass assignment.
Prompt injection (direct and indirect), system prompt extraction, tool and function call abuse, RAG context isolation, output handling vulnerabilities, model fingerprinting, rate limit bypass. Built specifically because traditional pentest firms don't know how to test this.
Subdomain enumeration, technology fingerprinting, exposed services and admin interfaces, cloud storage exposure, DNS misconfigurations, certificate transparency mining.
JavaScript credential leakage, leaked API keys in client bundles, exposed .env / .git / backup files, container image secret extraction, hardcoded tokens.
TLS configuration, security header coverage, CORS policy, WAF presence and bypass, server software version checks, cookie security flags.
Security budgets get cut when the math feels abstract. The math is not abstract. The IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report tracks it every year, against thousands of real incidents.
Global average cost of a data breach in 2024, an all time high and a 10% jump year over year. Source: IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2024.
Average breach cost in healthcare, the most expensive industry for the 14th year running. Regulated SaaS and financial services follow close behind.
Mean time to identify a breach in 2024, plus another 64 days to contain it. Continuous testing collapses that window by surfacing the same exposures attackers find, before they find them.
Share of breaches involving data stored across multiple environments. The attack surface scanners and annual pentests miss is exactly where breaches now originate.
Hoot replaces the bulk of what you'd pay a boutique pentest firm to do annually, runs continuously, and your data never leaves your network.
One engagement. Two weeks of coverage. Ten and a half months of blind spots between reports.
Twelve months of continuous, scoped testing. Custom pricing based on targets and seats.
Break even math: catching a single material finding before it becomes an incident pays for the program many times over.
The math typically works out one of three ways.
Customers who shift from one $50K/year third party engagement to Hoot get 12 months of continuous testing instead of two weeks. The annual cost is comparable. The coverage isn't.
Security engineers spend less time on routine recon and triage and more time on the work that actually requires human judgment: threat modeling, incident response, architecture review.
Customers preparing for SOC 2 or HIPAA audits use Hoot to generate fresh findings and remediation evidence the week before the auditor arrives, rather than scrambling to reproduce something an external firm wrote up months ago.
Hoot is sold to companies whose security review process won't approve sending production data to a third party cloud. Every design decision in the product reflects that.
Runs as a container in your environment. Findings, evidence, scan output, and configuration all live in a volume you control. We never see any of it.
The container makes one outbound call: a daily license heartbeat that contains the license key, the product version, and the host OS string. Nothing else. Air gapped mode disables even that.
Every finding maps to OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Top 10, and where relevant, HIPAA Security Rule sections and SOC 2 Common Criteria. Custom frameworks supported on Enterprise plans.
HIPAA aware finding mappings. Air gapped deployment option for environments where outbound HTTPS is forbidden. Pre audit evidence generation for HITRUST and SOC 2.
SOC 2 control mapping. Continuous evidence collection between Type II audit windows. API and authentication coverage customers actually ask about during procurement.
Dedicated test categories for LLM systems, RAG pipelines, and AI feature integrations. Catches the failure modes traditional pentest firms haven't learned how to look for.
Force multiplier for in house security teams. Handles routine coverage so engineers can focus on threat modeling, incident response, and architecture review.
Demos are typically a 30 minute call. We'll walk through what Hoot finds against a target you control, and you'll leave with enough information to know whether it fits.