A focused scope protects the decision in front of you
A startup can have a mobile app, web dashboard, public API, payment partner, cloud account, and internal admin tool. Testing every asset at once can waste time. We start with the flows tied to the next decision and include every system that can change their security.
Written scope
Send your architecture diagram, critical flows, launch date, and available test accounts. We return a written scope, schedule, and access list before work begins.
Clear finding detail
Each confirmed finding records the affected flow, required access, test steps, result, business impact, fix guidance, and retest status.
Two useful report views
Leadership gets the scope, main risks, decisions, and remediation state. Engineers get the evidence and technical detail needed to repair each issue.
Direct access
Your technical contact can speak with the people testing the product. Questions about access, expected behavior, findings, and fixes move on one clear path.
A feature is only as secure as the systems behind it
A referral reward can touch identity, eligibility rules, transaction limits, ledger entries, partner callbacks, and admin overrides. We test the full path, repeat requests, role changes, state changes, and direct API access. This finds the gaps that a screen-by-screen review misses.
Pick the test that matches your next decision
- Before development: Choose an architecture review for trust boundaries, roles, data paths, and control placement.
- Before launch: Choose a focused penetration test for the flows that control access, money, and customer data.
- Before enterprise sales: Test the product and prepare a report that states the scope, method, findings, fixes, and retest status.
- After a major change: Test the changed surface and every control that depends on it.
Choose a scope that answers the launch, customer, audit, or investment question in front of you. Include each system that shares a trust boundary or controls the same high-risk flow.
What a startup must prepare
Assign one technical owner. Provide the current build, test accounts, API notes, architecture diagram, known limits, and a safe test environment. State the launch date and the people who must read the report. This keeps access, testing, fixes, and retesting on one clear path.
What the first scope should name
Start with the action that creates the most risk. For a wallet, that may be account recovery, funding, transfer, withdrawal, and support access. For a lending app, it may be onboarding, identity checks, loan approval, disbursement, repayment, and staff overrides. For a payment platform, it may be merchant onboarding, API keys, payment creation, callbacks, refunds, settlements, and dashboard roles.
The scope should name each user role, application, API, integration, environment, and exclusion. It should also state the test schedule, urgent contact, data limits, reports, and retest terms. This gives the team a firm plan before access is shared.
Plan time for the fixes
Book the review while engineers can still change the product. A confirmed access-control or payment-logic flaw may affect more than one endpoint. Your team needs time to repair the shared control, test the change, and prepare it for retesting. Put the review before the final release freeze, investor deadline, or enterprise security review.
Tell us the next decision, the product surfaces, and the target date.
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Most startup engagements combine penetration testing with API security testing and authentication testing. Use our pre-launch review when customers have not arrived. Use our live-product review for a product already in use. Read how we scope, test, report, and retest before you contact us.
Frequently asked questions
We're pre-Seed. Are we too early?
Start the review when your critical payment, identity, customer data, and admin flows are stable enough to test. Your team must also have time to fix a serious finding before launch.
Can this report be shared with investors?
Yes. You control who receives the report. The management summary states the scope, main risks, decisions, and retest status. The technical report gives your engineers the full finding detail.
Do you integrate with our CI/CD?
We can review the checks already in your pipeline and show where automated tests support the manual review. The engagement scope states whether pipeline work is included.