Corgea GTM brain

Corgea sells AI-assisted application security scanning and code remediation to developers and security teams.

category

AI application security

market profile

  • text: Security teams must triage scanner noise and persuade developers to fix verified vulnerabilities without slowing releases.
  • text: Application security tools increasingly combine code, dependency, secrets and infrastructure scanning with automated remediation.

personas

  • title: Application security engineer
    pains:
    • Triaging noisy static analysis findings
    • Getting developers to remediate real vulnerabilities before backlogs grow
  • title: Engineering leader
    pains:
    • Security review can interrupt pull requests and shipping
    • Developers must interpret findings and write fixes without enough security expertise
  • title: CISO
    pains:
    • Managing code and supply chain risk across repositories
    • Scaling security governance with limited specialist capacity

icp

  • text: Software-producing startups through enterprises with active repositories, pull requests and security remediation backlogs.
  • text: Security-conscious software teams in fintech, SaaS, healthcare, energy and manufacturing.

message pillars

  • text: Reduce noise and deliver fixes developers can act on.
  • text: Give developers safeguards while preserving speed.
  • text: Prioritize dependency risk based on reachability.

objections

  • objection: Will generated fixes introduce regressions?
    response: Review and test suggested changes in the normal pull request workflow using representative repositories.
  • objection: We already have SAST and dependency tools.
    response: Compare true findings, false positives and remediation time on the same codebase before replacing anything.
  • objection: Can we protect proprietary code?
    response: Review the vendor's security controls and deployment options with procurement before connecting repositories.

competitors

  • name: Snyk
    why: Developer-focused code and dependency security with remediation.
  • name: Semgrep
    why: Static analysis, supply chain scanning and remediation.
  • name: SonarQube
    why: Code quality and vulnerability scanning in developer workflows.
  • name: Aikido Security
    why: Consolidated developer security scanning.

influencers

  • name: Ahmad Sadeddin
    url: https://www.corgea.com/about
    why: Founder and CEO articulating the developer-first security thesis.

keywords

  • AI SAST
  • application security remediation
  • dependency vulnerability scanning
  • security false positives
  • automated code fixes
  • developer security platform

voice

  • Developer first
  • Direct and pragmatic
  • Security outcome focused

signals

  • text: A security team has a growing backlog of scanner findings awaiting developer remediation.
  • text: Engineering is adding pull request scanning or dependency governance across repositories.

stack

  • Jira
  • API
  • webhooks

pricing

model: freemium
starting price: Free; Growth $39 per developer per month

motion

hybrid

channels

  • SEO
  • Security research
  • Open source
  • Events
  • GitHub Marketplace

confidence

high

Founders

  • name: Ahmad Sadeddin
    title: Founder
    role: Founder
    bio: Ahmad is the founder and CEO of Corgea, which is his 3rd startup. His last one was acquired by Coupa. He spent the last 3 years of his tenure there leading the payments product where he worked on making sure their products were secure.

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