First we scan like a defender. Then we attack like an adversary.
A scanner produces a list. We turn the list into proof and remove everything that isn’t real before it reaches your engineers. Here’s exactly how.
Scope & authorization
Systems, test accounts, roles, rate limits, exclusions, escalation paths, and written authorization.
Baseline scans + security researcher
Dependencies, cloud posture, SAST, secrets, IaC, and known CVEs, plus an AI security researcher surfacing novel, previously-unseen vulnerabilities.
Correlate & target
Deduplicate, map ownership, check reachability, and prioritize the paths worth attacking.
AI-driven exploitation
DeepExploit and the AI security researcher verify each other’s findings, turning every confirmed exploit into the lead for the next.
Human validation
Operators confirm exploitability, strip noise, correct severity, and make every finding safe and accurate.
Fix-ready output
Reproduction steps, impact, severity, affected assets, remediation guidance, and retest status.
An AI security researcher on every engagement.
A scanner only knows what’s already been published. Our AI security researcher hunts for novel, previously-unseen vulnerabilities, the kind a motivated attacker finds first, then every candidate is human-validated before it reaches you.
We build the test for your target.
The six steps above are how we run a standard engagement. But offensive security is bespoke by nature, and plenty of targets don’t fit a fixed menu. When yours doesn’t, we build the approach around it instead of bending your system to fit ours.
Describe the target
An unusual stack, a niche framework, a custom protocol, embedded or OT, a brand-new AI system: whatever doesn’t fit a standard box.
Operators handle it
Human-driven testing reaches what off-the-shelf tooling can’t. You get real coverage today, not “we don’t support that.”
We extend coverage
What we learn becomes part of our tooling, so the next engagement against that kind of target is faster and deeper, for you and everyone after.
DeepExploit attacks & proves
We find what’s exploitable, validate it by hand, and hand you evidence your engineers can act on.
Operative fixes & governs
Remediation, compliance execution, and ongoing security ownership. joinoperative.com ↗
See the method on your systems.
Tell us the target and the deadline, and we’ll scope it and tell you what we can prove.