01
The inbox is mostly noise.
Duplicates, out-of-scope reports, and informational submissions drown the real bugs. Sorting through it is a job in itself.
Independent vulnerability triage
Triage that earns its keep.
We validate the security reports your bug bounty program receives — whether the program is public, private, self-hosted, or running on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, YesWeHack, or Bug Bounty Switzerland. Reports come in, signal goes out, ready for your engineers to fix.
- Reports
- 1,000+
- Programs
- 100+
- Years
- 5+
- Bugcrowd
- MVP
The problem
What goes wrong when triage isn't someone's job.
02
Slow replies burn hunters.
Researchers move on to programs that respond. A two-week silence is a closed door — and a public complaint waiting to happen.
03
Your AppSec team has a day job.
Engineers paid to ship secure code shouldn't spend mornings reproducing reflected XSS in a marketing subdomain.
Why hire a triager
An AppSec engineer's morning is worth more than a triage queue.
A senior application security engineer costs somewhere between $180k and $260k all-in. If they spend 90 minutes a day reproducing reports, deduplicating spam, and writing polite no-thank-yous, that's roughly a fifth of their week — about $40k a year — spent doing work that doesn't ship safer code.
See how it works →≈ 60–80%
of typical inbound
is duplicate, out of scope, or informational. Sorting it is the job nobody wants and the part that bottlenecks everything else.
≈ 14 days
median time-to-first-response
across the bug bounty programs we observe. Above ten days, hunter trust starts to evaporate and quality submissions drop.
1 retainer
vs. one open headcount
you don't need to fill. We handle the queue at the cost of a fraction of an FTE — and only when the queue exists.
What we do
Four steps. Every report. Every time.
The work is ordinary, but it has to be done well. Here's the shape of it.
01
Intake
Every report lands with us first. We acknowledge within SLA, deduplicate against history, and confirm scope before anyone on your team is paged.
02
Validate
We reproduce the issue end-to-end, capture clean evidence, and reject what doesn't hold up. No vague maybe-tickets reach your engineers.
03
Score
CVSS 3.1 with a written justification, plus a business-context severity. You get the standard score and the one that actually reflects risk.
04
Hand off
A dev-ready report goes straight into your tracker — repro steps, impact, suggested fix direction, affected assets. Closeout messaging to the hunter is on us.
How triage typically gets done
Three ways teams handle inbound. Here's where we fit alongside the others.
Your AppSec team does it
Hidden — engineering time
- In-house product knowledge
- No external relationship
- Burns engineering hours on duplicates and out-of-scope
- Slow during sprint crunch
- Single-point-of-failure when the lead is on leave
VerdictWorks for a low-volume self-hosted setup or a quiet platform program — until it doesn't.
Platform-managed triage (HackerOne, Bugcrowd, etc.)
Bundled in your managed plan
- Included on managed tiers
- Hunter pool baked in
- Quality varies by program and triager
- No independent validation of severity
- Not available on self-hosted or self-serve plans
VerdictFine baseline if you're on a managed plan. Pair us with it when you want a second pair of eyes on highs and criticals.
See full comparison →Severity Labs
Fraction of an FTE
- Independent — works with any program type or platform
- Dedicated humans, not a SaaS
- Triager who's been on the hunter side at scale
- Not a hunter pool — bring your own program
- Not a fit if your inbound is under five reports a month
VerdictRight answer when triage needs to be someone's full-time job, regardless of where your reports come from.
What you get
The output your engineers can actually use.
Every valid finding ships as a complete, dev-ready report. Hunters get a real reply. You get a clean view of what's coming in.
Dev-ready reports
Each valid finding becomes a Jira, Linear, or GitHub issue your engineers can pick up cold.
CVSS 3.1 scoring
Vector strings with written justification. No copy-pasted base scores.
Hunter communication
Acknowledgement, follow-ups, retest, and final disposition. In your program's voice.
Weekly summaries
What came in, what was valid, what's pending. One email, five minutes to read.
Program health reports
Quarterly view of submission trends, hunter quality, and asset hotspots.
Report excerpt
SL-2418
Title
Stored XSS in reviewer comment field
Severity
High
CVSS 3.1
7.4
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Asset
app.example.com/reviews/{id}/comments
Repro
POST /api/reviews/{id}/comments with body=<svg/onload=fetch(...)>
Impact
Session theft of any reviewer who opens the affected review.
Fix
Sanitize on render; CSP nonce on inline handlers; reject raw HTML server-side.
Status
Validated
- Reports triaged
- 1,000+
- Programs worked
- 100+
- Years in bounty
- 5+
- Bugcrowd recognition
- MVP
Pricing
Three tiers. Pick the one that matches your volume.
Starter
For teams just turning the lights on.
Up to 30 reports / month
- Triage of every inbound report
- CVSS 3.1 scoring with justification
- Dev-ready handoff to your tracker
- 24h SLA (business hours)
Growth
For programs with steady inbound volume.
Up to 100 reports / month
- Everything in Starter
- 12h SLA, 7 days a week
- Hunter-facing communication on your behalf
- Weekly summary + open-issue digest
Enterprise
For programs that can't have surprises.
Unlimited reports
- Everything in Growth
- Custom SLA, including same-day on critical
- Dedicated triage lead
- Direct integration into your tracker and SIEM
FAQ
Questions we get before the first call.
Acknowledgement, deduplication, scope check, full reproduction, CVSS scoring, written justification, dev-ready report, hunter response, and retest when the fix ships.
Get started
Stop letting reports pile up.
Hunters lose interest. Engineers lose mornings. The next report is already in the inbox.