# Cloudint

*/Startups/Cloudint*

## Startup Overview

This platform maps unmanaged and exposed cloud assets across an organization's digital footprint. It actively scans external perimeters to locate shadow infrastructure, attributing forgotten servers, misconfigured databases, and orphaned APIs back to their respective owners. Security teams use this persistent visibility to eliminate blind spots before threat actors exploit them.

Enterprise security teams operate with incomplete visibility into their expanding cloud environments. As engineering groups rapidly spin up new services outside official provisioning channels, organizations accumulate undocumented external attack surfaces. This engine closes the gap between officially tracked infrastructure and actual network exposure, building a definitive inventory of every outward-facing asset tied to a corporate domain.

Traditional attack surface management tools like Cortex Xpanse and Mandiant Advantage rely on periodic scans, while indexing services like Shodan provide raw data without organizational context. This system bypasses those limitations by operating entirely agentless, deploying instantly without requiring internal credential configuration. By continuously pulling live telemetry from external vantage points, it maintains a real-time map of the perimeter that updates the moment a new shadow asset comes online.

## Startup Founding Hypothesis

**Approach**: that discovers and attributes shadow cloud infrastructure in real time
**Competitors**:
- [Cortex Xpanse](/Competitors/Cortex_Xpanse)
- [Shodan](/Competitors/Shodan)
- [Mandiant Advantage](/Competitors/Mandiant_Advantage)
**Differentiator2x2**: completely agentless to deploy and continuously updated with live telemetry

## Startup Solution Coordinate

**Solution**: [Shadow Cloud Discovery](/Software/Shadow_Cloud_Discovery)

## Startup Position2x2

```mermaid
quadrantChart
title Shadow Cloud Infrastructure Discovery
x-axis Heavy Integration --> Completely Agentless
y-axis Point-in-Time Scans --> Continuous Live Telemetry
quadrant-1 Continuous & Agentless
quadrant-2 Continuous & Heavy
quadrant-3 Static & Heavy
quadrant-4 Static & Agentless
Cloudint: [0.85, 0.90]
Cortex Xpanse: [0.75, 0.65]
Shodan: [0.95, 0.20]
Mandiant Advantage: [0.20, 0.80]
```

## Startup Offer

**Proof**:
- Aiming to map forgotten cloud environments spun up by former employees within 48 hours of activation.
- Targeting zero deployment overhead for security operations teams by running entirely from the outside in.
- Designed to reduce the time required to discover newly exposed rogue cloud instances from weeks to under 4 hours.
**Tiers**:
- Name: Reconnaissance Sweep · Price: ~$500–$1,200 per scan · Inclusions: One-time agentless external sweep of up to 500 IPs or domains, mapping the initial shadow cloud footprint.
- Name: Continuous Telemetry · Price: ~$1,500–$3,000/mo · Inclusions: Ongoing live monitoring for up to 2,500 external assets, designed to issue real-time alerts on newly spun-up unmanaged cloud instances.
- Name: Enterprise Perimeter · Price: ~$4,000–$7,500/mo · Inclusions: Unlimited external asset discovery, intended to route attributed shadow infrastructure directly into enterprise SIEMs and workflow tools.
**Guarantee**: Cloudint guarantees the identification of at least one previously unknown, internet-facing shadow cloud asset within the first 14 days of monitoring, or the first month's subscription fee is fully refunded.
**Business Function**: ProvideService
**Objection Handlers**:
- Objection: 'We already use CSPM tools like AWS Security Hub.' Rebuttal: CSPMs only monitor the cloud accounts you already know about; Cloudint is designed to find the shadow accounts developers spun up outside your managed organization.
- Objection: 'External scanning produces too many false positives with shared hosting.' Rebuttal: The platform uses live telemetry and proprietary fingerprinting intended to attribute assets to your specific organization, filtering out generic shared infrastructure.
- Objection: 'Security tools require deploying agents we lack the bandwidth to manage.' Rebuttal: The system operates completely agentless from the external perimeter, requiring zero installation or endpoint access.
**Pricing Architecture**: Tiered
**Agent Checkout Support**:
- agentic-commerce-protocol

## Startup Brand

**Voice**: Authoritative and clinical, delivering precise telemetry data without alarmist rhetoric.
**Tagline**: Locate and attribute every shadow cloud asset in real time.
**Icon Concept**: server
**Palette Intent**: electric-signal
**Visual Identity**: Deep charcoal backgrounds contrast with stark neon green and cyan accents to evoke live command-line telemetry and continuous asset discovery.
**Archetype Reference**: the-sage

## Startup Buyer Chain

**Chain**: Cloudint → Enterprise SecOps → Chief Information Security Officer
**Gtm Motion**: Acquires security teams through a self-serve, single-domain shadow asset scan that requires no agent deployment. Expands to enterprise contracts by gating continuous live telemetry and intended SIEM data export behind tier-based subscriptions.
**Agent Channel**: Designed to list in the LangChain tool registry and OpenAI structured API directory as a real-time OSINT connector, allowing autonomous security agents to instantly query external attack surface maps.
**Primary Channel**: Inbound discovery driven by publishing aggregate shadow IT exposure data on technical security forums like r/netsec and Hacker News, prompting cloud architects to run an exploratory scan on their own corporate domains.

## Startup Customer Journey

```mermaid
flowchart LR; A[Security Forum Post] --> B[Self-Serve Scan]; B --> C[Shadow Asset Alert]; C --> D[Continuous Telemetry Tier]; D --> E[Enterprise SIEM Export]; E --> F[CISO Referral];
```

## Startup Proof Points

_Illustrative — target and order-of-magnitude estimate figures, not an achieved track record (this Thing is concept-stage)._

**Pilot Goals**:
- 14-day Continuous Telemetry pilot: Target issuing real-time alerts on newly spun-up unmanaged cloud instances among a pool of 2,500 external assets to trigger the performance guarantee.
- Initial Reconnaissance Sweep pilot: Aim to map the initial shadow cloud footprint across up to 500 IPs, proving attribution accuracy and demonstrating value before committing to a monthly subscription.
**Target Metrics**:
- Target: Under 4 hours from rogue instance exposure to automated discovery alert.
- Target: 1 or more previously unknown shadow cloud assets identified within the first 14 days of live monitoring.
- Target: 0 hours of deployment overhead required to map the initial shadow cloud footprint.
**Target Case Studies**:
- Mid-market SaaS Chief Information Security Officer: Target mapping forgotten cloud environments spun up by former developers within 48 hours of activation, proving discovery outside standard organizational guardrails.
- Enterprise Financial Services SOC Manager: Aim to discover and route attributed shadow infrastructure directly into enterprise SIEMs without generating generic shared-hosting false positives.
- Healthcare IT Director: Target achieving comprehensive external asset visibility without deploying a single endpoint agent or requiring internal network access.
**Testimonial Targets**:
- Director of Cloud Security: Validating that the platform finds shadow accounts spun up outside the managed organization that their standard CSPM tools completely missed.
- Security Engineering Lead: Confirming zero deployment overhead because the platform runs entirely from the outside in without requiring agent installation.
- VP of Information Security: Highlighting the accuracy of the platform's proprietary fingerprinting in filtering out generic shared hosting noise.

## Startup Top Risks

**Risks**:
- Severity: existential · Description: Major cloud providers restrict public-facing API endpoints or alter telemetry formats, breaking the core agentless discovery mechanism. · Mitigation Status: unmitigated
- Severity: high · Description: Established competitors like Cortex Xpanse replicate the continuous live telemetry approach and bundle it free with existing enterprise security contracts. · Mitigation Status: in-progress
- Severity: moderate · Description: False positives in shadow infrastructure attribution cause security teams to waste incident response hours, damaging trust in platform accuracy. · Mitigation Status: in-progress
- Severity: low · Description: Initial read-only scanning requires complex IAM approvals from enterprise compliance teams, extending the deployment cycle. · Mitigation Status: mitigated

## Startup Competitors

- [Cortex Xpanse](/Competitors/Cortex_Xpanse) — Incumbent ASM
- [Shodan](/Competitors/Shodan) — Asset Search Engine
- [Mandiant Advantage](/Competitors/Mandiant_Advantage) — Threat Intelligence
- [Wiz](/Competitors/Wiz) — Agentless CSPM
- [Orca Security](/Competitors/Orca_Security) — Cloud Security
- [Manual Asset Spreadsheets](/Competitors/Manual_Asset_Spreadsheets) — Status Quo

## Startup Solution Stack

- [Shadow Discovery Service](/Services/Shadow_Discovery_Service) — Service-as-Software
- [Asset Attribution Worker](/Agents/Asset_Attribution_Worker) — Agent
- [Agentless Reconnaissance Engine](/Software/Agentless_Reconnaissance_Engine) — Software
- [Telemetry Ingestion API](/Software/Telemetry_Ingestion_API) — Software

## Startup Story Brand

**Hero**:
- **Need**: to be the executive who eliminates blind spots, not the one blindsided by leaks
- **Want**: to maintain a complete, real-time inventory of the entire external cloud perimeter
- **Identity**: the CISO at a fast-growing enterprise with distributed engineering teams
**Plan**:
- Step: Identify Assets · Detail: Provide your primary domains to trigger a comprehensive, agentless scan of your external cloud perimeter.
- Step: Check Attribution · Detail: Review the live telemetry dashboard to verify which unmanaged instances belong to your organization.
- Step: Integrate SIEM · Detail: Route newly discovered shadow infrastructure data into your existing SOC workflow for immediate remediation.
**Guide**:
- **Empathy**: When a developer spins up a personal account for a quick test and leaves it internet-facing, your existing tools stay silent.
**Problem**:
- **Villain**: Shadow Infrastructure
- **External**: Cortex Xpanse and CSPM tools like AWS Security Hub only monitor known accounts, leaving rogue developer instances invisible to security operations.
- **Internal**: You feel a constant undercurrent of anxiety knowing a single forgotten dev instance could trigger the next breach.
- **Philosophical**: Security posture belongs in verified telemetry, not in the hope that every employee follows the manual.
**Success**: Your perimeter is fully mapped within 48 hours, ensuring every newly spun-up instance is attributed and secured in under four hours.
**One Liner**: Invisible shadow infrastructure costs security teams their perimeter control. Cloudint discovers and attributes every rogue cloud instance so you can secure what you can't see.
**Positioning**:
- **So That**: discover rogue developer accounts outside known organizations without agents
- **Unlike**: Cortex Xpanse and CSPMs
- **For Whom**: the CISO at distributed enterprises
- **Category**: External Attack Surface Management
**Call To Action**:
- **Direct**: Run Reconnaissance Sweep
- **Transitional**: View Sample Asset Fingerprint
**Failure Stakes**:
- Unmanaged data breaches
- Compliance violations from shadow accounts
- Extended mean-time-to-discovery for rogue instances
**Transformation**:
- **To**: the CISO who governs a complete cloud perimeter
- **From**: a security leader guessing at asset counts
**Controlling Idea**: Unknown cloud assets must be identified and attributed in real time.

## Startup Token Hero

**Genre**: founding-hypothesis
**Rendered**: Invisible shadow infrastructure costs security teams their perimeter control. Cloudint discovers and attributes every rogue cloud instance so you can secure what you can't see.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-founding-hypothesis
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 806e4dcd995da119

## Startup Token Positioning

**Genre**: moore-positioning
**Rendered**: External Attack Surface Management for the CISO at distributed enterprises. Unlike Cortex Xpanse and CSPMs — discover rogue developer accounts outside known organizations without agents.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-moore-positioning
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 5970500c4efe06c6

## Startup Token Pitch Deck

**Genre**: pitch-deck
**Rendered**: Problem: Cortex Xpanse and CSPM tools like AWS Security Hub only monitor known accounts, leaving rogue developer instances invisible to security operations.
Solution: Invisible shadow infrastructure costs security teams their perimeter control. Cloudint discovers and attributes every rogue cloud instance so you can secure what you can't see.
Customer: the CISO at distributed enterprises
Unlike: Cortex Xpanse and CSPMs
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-pitch-deck
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 31d8f553a94a76ea

## Startup Token M E D D P I C C

**Pain**: Cortex Xpanse and CSPM tools like AWS Security Hub only monitor known accounts, leaving rogue developer instances invisible to security operations.
**Metrics**: Target: Your perimeter is fully mapped within 48 hours, ensuring every newly spun-up instance is attributed and secured in under four hours.
**Rendered**: Pain: Cortex Xpanse and CSPM tools like AWS Security Hub only monitor known accounts, leaving rogue developer instances invisible to security operations.
Economic buyer: Enterprise SecOps
Metrics: Target: Your perimeter is fully mapped within 48 hours, ensuring every newly spun-up instance is attributed and secured in under four hours.
Competition: Cortex Xpanse and CSPMs
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Competition**: Cortex Xpanse and CSPMs
**Economic Buyer**: Enterprise SecOps
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 393e114c5e21adea

## Startup Token Cold Email

**Genre**: cold-email
**Rendered**: Subject: External Attack Surface Management for the CISO at distributed enterprises

the CISO at distributed enterprises — Cortex Xpanse and CSPM tools like AWS Security Hub only monitor known accounts, leaving rogue developer instances invisible to security operations. Invisible shadow infrastructure costs security teams their perimeter control. Cloudint discovers and attributes every rogue cloud instance so you can secure what you can't see.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-cold-email
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 2e44f2ae0bd2e76e

## Startup Token Agent Spec

**Genre**: ai-agent-spec
**Rendered**: External Attack Surface Management. Invisible shadow infrastructure costs security teams their perimeter control. Cloudint discovers and attributes every rogue cloud instance so you can secure what you can't see. Serves the CISO at distributed enterprises.
**Mechanism**: spine-derived-v1
**Template Id**: spine-ai-agent-spec
**Vocab Fingerprint**: 1071c6f28dd3ec65

## Neighborhood

### Candidate solutions

- [Optimize Film Roll Yield](/Problems/Optimize_Film_Roll_Yield) — candidate solution for · Problems

### What it offers

- [Shadow Cloud Discovery](/Software/Shadow_Cloud_Discovery) — offers · Software
- [Stencil Weaver](/Services/Stencil_Weaver) — offers · Services
- [Prism Nesting Service](/Agents/Prism_Nesting_Service) — offers · Agents

### Composed of

- [Multi-Job Nesting Service](/Services/Multi-Job_Nesting_Service) — composes · Services
- [Geometric Packing Engine](/Software/Geometric_Packing_Engine) — composes · Software
- [Plotter Output API](/Software/Plotter_Output_API) — composes · Software
- [Offcut Allocation Worker](/Agents/Offcut_Allocation_Worker) — composes · Agents
- [Pattern Tessellation Agent](/Agents/Pattern_Tessellation_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Roll Tessellation Service](/Services/Roll_Tessellation_Service) — composes · Services
- [Plotter Integration API](/Software/Plotter_Integration_API) — composes · Software
- [Scrap Allocation Agent](/Agents/Scrap_Allocation_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Template Batching Agent](/Agents/Template_Batching_Agent) — composes · Agents
- [Agentless Reconnaissance Engine](/Software/Agentless_Reconnaissance_Engine) — composes · Software
- [Telemetry Ingestion API](/Software/Telemetry_Ingestion_API) — composes · Software
- [Asset Attribution Worker](/Agents/Asset_Attribution_Worker) — composes · Agents
- [Shadow Discovery Service](/Services/Shadow_Discovery_Service) — composes · Services

### Embodies

- [Service-as-Software](/Theses/Service-as-Software) — embodies · Theses
- [Software](/Theses/Software) — embodies · Theses

### Who it serves

- [Aftermarket Protective Film and Tint Shop](/CompanyTypes/Aftermarket_Protective_Film_and_Tint_Shop) — serves · CompanyTypes

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- [manual spatial planning](/Competitors/manual_spatial_planning) — competes with · Competitors
- [XPEL Design Access](/Competitors/XPEL_Design_Access) — competes with · Competitors
- [Single-Job Manual Plotting](/Competitors/Single-Job_Manual_Plotting) — competes with · Competitors
- [XPEL DAP](/Competitors/XPEL_DAP) — competes with · Competitors
- [Manual Spatial Manipulation](/Competitors/Manual_Spatial_Manipulation) — competes with · Competitors
- [manual template manipulation](/Competitors/manual_template_manipulation) — competes with · Competitors
- [Manual Asset Spreadsheets](/Competitors/Manual_Asset_Spreadsheets) — competes with · Competitors
- [Shodan](/Competitors/Shodan) — competes with · Competitors
- [Mandiant Advantage](/Competitors/Mandiant_Advantage) — competes with · Competitors
- [Cortex Xpanse](/Competitors/Cortex_Xpanse) — competes with · Competitors
- [Orca Security](/Competitors/Orca_Security) — competes with · Competitors
- [Wiz](/Competitors/Wiz) — competes with · Competitors

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