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80% of startups have one or fewer employees dedicated to security. A breach at your stage costs $3.31 million on average. Hyrax gives you continuous security remediation without a security hire.
- Sources: DigitalOcean, "Small Businesses and Cybersecurity," 2023. IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023.
Nobody owns security. Everyone owns the risk
38% of startups have zero employees dedicated to security. You're probably one of them.
DigitalOcean's 2023 cybersecurity survey of 554 founders and C-suite executives showed that 38% of startups and SMBs have no employee - not even part-time - responsible for security. An additional 42% have exactly one. Your engineers are shipping features and handling security issues when they surface. That split attention is where vulnerabilities accumulate.
DigitalOcean, "Small Businesses and Cybersecurity," March 2023.A breach at your stage costs $3.31 million. That's not a number most startups survive.
IBM's Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 showed that organizations with fewer than 500 employees saw an average breach cost of $3.31 million - a 13.4% increase from the prior year. For a startup pre-profitability, that number is existential. Security vulnerabilities that accumulate in a sprint backlog are deferred liability, not just technical debt.
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023 (Ponemon Institute, 2023).Your engineers already spend 13.5 hours a week on debt. Security triage adds to that.
Stripe's Developer Coefficient study surfaced developers spend an average of 13.5 hours per week on technical debt maintenance - roughly a third of their working week. At a 5-person engineering team, that's the equivalent of nearly 2 full-time engineers working on debt instead of product.
Stripe, "The Developer Coefficient," 2018 (Harris Poll survey of 1,000+ developers).Security coverage without a security hire
Security coverage without a security hire
- Hyrax scans continuously and executes changes autonomously - no AppSec headcount required
- Discovery profiles the codebase automatically - no manual rule authoring or security expertise needed to get started
- Start free with full access and starter credits - a 5-person team only pays for seats that want deeper access
Breach risk reduced without slowing shipping
- Issues execute as PRs the day they're introduced - not weeks later after accumulating in a backlog
- The 13-step verification validates changes before any code ships - broken changes don't land in production
- Continuous scanning means vulnerabilities don't sit undetected for the industry-median 258 days (IBM 2024)
Debt decreases instead of accumulating
- Hyrax's Scan and Upgrade workflows work through existing debt between sprints - without sprint allocation
- Engineers review and merge Hyrax PRs; they don't triage or generate changes
- Every change Hyrax executes ships as a verified PR with the [Hyrax] prefix, with full context and test results
What deferred security remediation costs
| Cost category | Deferred state | Hyrax |
|---|---|---|
| Security headcount | You need a dedicated hire to triage and close issues | Hyrax handles triage and execution - no additional headcount required |
| Developer time | 13.5 hrs/week per engineer on debt maintenance (Stripe, 2018) | Security debt decreases continuously - dev time shifts toward product |
| Breach exposure | $3.31M average breach cost for sub-500-employee orgs (IBM, 2023) | Issues close at introduction - exposure window measured in hours, not months |
| Audit readiness | No evidence trail; QSA or investor diligence requires manual assembly | Every change is a PR with issue, diff, tests, approver, and timestamp |
| Fundraising risk | Security posture gaps surface in technical due diligence | Demonstrable SAST coverage and autonomous remediation are checkboxes, not gaps |
Common questions
from startups
We're pre-product-market-fit. Is this the right time for Hyrax?
If you're writing code that will eventually handle user data, payment information, or authentication - yes. Security debt introduced before PMF is the hardest kind to pay down, because it's buried under every feature shipped on top of it. Hyrax works through it continuously in the background; you don't allocate sprint time to it.
We don't have a SAST scanner yet. Can Hyrax be our first security tool?
Yes. Hyrax runs its own scanning - SAST-grade multi-agent analysis. You don't need a separate SAST tool first. Install the GitHub App and Hyrax begins scanning immediately.
We're 3 engineers. Is Hyrax's compute model actually affordable?
Compute cost scales with issue volume, not headcount. For a 3-person team with a small codebase and moderate issue volume, compute cost is typically well under $100/month - less than a single security tool seat.
What if we're moving fast and Hyrax's PRs create review overhead?
Hyrax's PRs are narrow, single-issue changes with full context included: the issue, the diff, and test results. Review time is minutes, not hours. Most teams surface Hyrax PRs take less time to review than manually-authored security changes because the context is already there.
Does Hyrax help with investor due diligence or SOC 2 prep?
Yes. Hyrax produces an audit trail for every change: issue type, severity, code diff, test results, approver, and merge timestamp. That evidence satisfies change management requirements for SOC 2 Type II and provides the security posture documentation investors ask for in technical due diligence.