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Startups and early teams

Five-to-fifty person teams that need real security without hiring a SOC.

Early teams have the inverse of an enterprise security problem. The estate is small, but the risk is concentrated; a single leaked key can unwind the whole company, and the people who could think about it spend their days shipping. Argus is built for the team that has to take security seriously before it can afford to hire for it. The mesh gives you continuous coverage across the platforms you actually use — GitHub, your cloud, your CDN, your CMS — with AI triage that pushes the few real findings to the people who can fix them and gates the response on a human when it matters. The same data, mapped to controls, becomes audit evidence for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 without an evidence-collection scramble before the audit window opens.

The reality on day zero

What you walk in carrying

A board pushing for SOC 2 readiness; a team of engineers with no spare cycles.

A security tooling RFP that would eat a quarter of payroll if you ran it.

A founder who is the de facto security owner and has no time to learn a SIEM.

What changes on day one

The day-one outcome

Continuous discovery and findings across the platforms you already use, with no analyst training required.

A protective-actions ledger and a controls mapping that doubles as SOC 2 / ISO 27001 evidence.

Auto-Protect handles the routine reversible actions, freeing engineering judgement for actual product work.

Tier fit

Where most startups and early teams land

Defend ($19/mo) to Respond ($39/mo). Defend covers the operating posture; Respond adds SSO, RBAC and fleet policy when the company crosses the threshold where a board cares. See pricing →

Platforms in this fit

Where this audience tends to ship

GitHub

Continuous secret scanning, CVE mapping and supply-chain checks across every repository you connect.

Vercel

Posture and security-header checks on every Vercel deployment, with findings tied back to the project.

Firebase

Project-wide rules, Storage and Hosting posture for every Firebase project you connect.

Supabase

RLS, storage and exposed-key checks across the Supabase projects you ship — without a key in your dashboard.

Cloudflare

Zone-level posture, WAF observability and edge-rule audits for every Cloudflare account you connect.

Topics worth reading

Related disciplines

Compliance & GRC

Evidence that follows from real security, not the other way round.

Attack Surface Management

Knowing everything you run before an attacker does.

DevSecOps

Security that keeps pace with how teams actually ship.

FAQ

Questions, answered

How does Argus help with SOC 2?
Continuous findings, protective actions and remediation are logged with timestamps and reasoning. Argus maps these signals to common SOC 2 control areas, so audit evidence is a query against reality instead of a fortnight of screenshots before the audit.
We already use Snyk or Wiz — should we still use Argus?
Argus is positioned for teams that don't have one of those tools yet — the AI-native security mesh for builders, not a replacement for an enterprise platform. If you have specialised coverage already, Argus complements it on the surfaces it doesn't cover (CMS, indie platforms, AI-built apps) without an enterprise contract.
Will engineers actually adopt this?
Findings arrive in plain English with the fix, attributed to the code or asset that produced them. AI triage means engineers see the work that matters, not a queue of noise. Most teams find adoption easier than for the legacy alternative.
What about regulatory or sector-specific requirements?
Argus covers the technical control surface that overlaps SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR. For sector-specific frameworks (HIPAA, PCI), the controls mapping is partial — talk to us about your scope and we will tell you honestly what is in lane.
How long does setup take?
A working baseline across one provider takes minutes — connect GitHub or your cloud, and findings start arriving. Full coverage across the platforms you use is usually a single afternoon.

Argus for the way you ship.

One mesh. Pick the way in that fits — open Argus and connect a platform.