AI Runtime Inspection & Enforcement · At the User Edge

AI to Your Defense.
Defense to Your AI. Detect the intent and shut it down before it executes — prevention of AI-enhanced, AI-native, and AI-generated threats at the user edge.

A Human in the Loop is a Gap in the Loop.

AI Detection & Response engages right of bang — after execution. SalienceCyber.ai is the prevention edge of AIDR: we neutralize the attack left of bang.

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The Inflection Point

THE AI ADOPTION WAVE
IS ALREADY INSIDE
YOUR PERIMETER

Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating. So is the attack surface it creates. The data makes the case no one can dispute.

AI Adoption — Current Cycle
$301B
Spent on AI globally this year — the fastest-scaling technology investment in history
IDC / Gartner
Workforce Penetration
88%
Of enterprises now use AI in at least one function — with 38% of knowledge workers using GenAI tools daily
McKinsey · Bloomberg Intelligence
Near-Term Projection
$632B
Global AI spending — nearly doubling as enterprise deployment reaches full production scale
IDC Worldwide AI Spending Guide
Attack Surge · YoY
10×
Order-of-magnitude growth in AI-augmented phishing, identity, and social-engineering attacks tracked across the threat landscape
Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2024 · Mandiant M-Trends 2024
Cost Per AI Breach
$5.72M
Average cost of an AI-powered breach — 16% above the global average, and rising as attacks grow more precise
IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report / Ponemon Institute
AI-Security · Subset of AI Spend
$15B+
Forecasted AI-specific security spending by 2027 — the fastest-growing sub-category of the broader AI investment cycle, and the addressable market for AI-driven attack prevention
Gartner AI Security Forecast / IDC
The Risk Is Real

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOUR TEAM
USES AI WITHOUT DEFENSE

Every AI tool your team adopts — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and the agents built on them — opens an attack surface your security stack was never built to see. The tools aren't the problem. The absence of AI-native defense is.

Without SalienceCyber.ai
9:07 AM · One Session
With SalienceCyber.ai
An employee opens ChatGPT to draft a proposal. A prompt injection hidden in a web page is now riding their session.
The injection
lands
Same employee, same injection. CognitionAI catches it at the browser control plane — before it lands.
+4sIt silently exfiltrates customer data and opens a connection to an adversarial server.
Milliseconds
later
+27msNeutralized autonomously. Nothing moved. No connection opened.
Nothing. Your SIEM, EDR, and SOC see a normal employee using a normal AI tool.
What your
SOC sees
Nothing to chase. The session is clean — there was never an alert to raise.
→ The breach is underway. You find out hours later.
The outcome
→ The employee never noticed. The breach never happened.
The Platform

SALIENCE
COGNITION
PLATFORM

"The Shift Left That No One Could Deliver. We Have."

The Salience Cognition Platform is powered by the CognitionAI Engine — neuroscience-inspired AI that neutralizes attacks before they breach, instead of chasing them after they land.

That gives your enterprise something new: the freedom to adopt AI at full speed, with the threats that adoption creates already neutralized. Your teams move forward. Your adversaries don't.

Core System

AI Observability & Threat Prevention

System-level visibility and autonomous policy enforcement across every AI tool, GenAI interaction, and agentic workflow your teams run — purpose-built agentic AI detection and prevention from the ground up.

  • Real-Time Policy Enforcement
  • GenAI Monitoring (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
  • Purpose-Built Agentic AI Detection & Prevention
  • Semantic Knowledge Graph
  • AI-Generated Malware
  • Prompt Injection Defense
  • Insider Threats via CLI + LLM
  • Data Exfiltration
  • Shadow AI Usage Outside Approved Controls
  • Model Manipulation via Instruction Smuggling
  • Automated AI-Driven Recon and Lateral Movement
Browser Defense

Browser-Based Defense Extension

Browser-side extension intercepting AI-driven and traditional threats at the moment of interaction with agentic AI workloads — coding copilots and browser-resident GenAI alike. Host stays agentless. Maximum protection, zero performance impact.

  • Real-Time Policy Enforcement
  • GenAI Monitoring (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini)
  • Purpose-Built Agentic AI Detection & Prevention
  • Phishing, AiTM, Social Engineering
  • Code Injection (XSS, CSRF, SQL)
  • Session / Credential Theft
  • Zero-Day Exploits
  • AI-Generated Malware
  • Insider Threats
  • Data Exfiltration
Agentless
On the host
(prevention-as-code)
Day 1
Time to full
protection
API
Integration
architecture
Zero
Disruption to
existing stack
The Platform in Action · Product Tour

From the User Edge
to the Boardroom.

One platform — live traffic, network topology, the sensor fleet, and the CISO's executive view — every layer of the user edge in one console.

01 · Real-Time
Real-Time Traffic Flow — live packet-level visibility as threats cross the wire
Real-Time Traffic Flow
Live packet-level visibility as threats cross the wire.
02 · Topology
Radial Network Topology — every node, every relationship, mapped continuously
Radial Network Topology
Every node, every relationship — mapped continuously.
03 · Sensor Fleet
Browser-Extension Sensor Fleet — coverage at the user edge, across the enterprise
Browser-Extension Sensor Fleet
Coverage at the user edge, across the enterprise.
04 · CISO View
CISO Executive Dashboard — risk, coverage, and ROI in the language of the board
CISO Executive Dashboard
Risk, coverage, and ROI — in the language of the board.
Before and After

PREVENTION AT
MACHINE SPEED

The difference between detect-and-respond and prevent-before-execution is not a feature gap. It is a cost gap, a time gap, and an exposure gap — measured in millions.

Without SalienceCyber.ai
Detect. Alert. Respond. Contain.
Threats detected only after breaching your environment
Analysts buried in alert triage — unable to focus on what matters
Incident response consumes budget and executive attention
AI-driven attacks outpace tools built for a pre-AI era
Remediation: legal exposure, regulatory fines, reputational damage
Customer trust that takes years to rebuild after a breach
With SalienceCyber.ai
Prevent. Neutralize. Move Forward.
Threats neutralized before they breach — prevention that pays for itself
Zero analyst intervention required. Zero alert fatigue.
No delays while your team investigates. No damage to contain.
Purpose-built to stop AI-driven attacks at machine speed
Prevention delivered with no disruptions to the customer
Real costs eliminated — because the breach never happened
CognitionAI Engine

THE ENGINE
THAT THINKS
BEFORE THE ATTACK

Most security waits to recognize a threat. Ours anticipates it — neuromorphic mathematics, modeled on the brain, that prevent attacks before they execute. Even ones with no known signature. At machine speed. With no human in the loop.
Neuromorphic Mathematics
Modeled on the brain — not on a library of signatures.
Built for Agentic AI
Designed for autonomous AI from the start, not retrofitted to it.
Zero-Signature Detection
Catches what has never been seen before.
Continuous Adaptation
Learns your environment — and never stops.
Why incumbents can't follow

For detect-and-respond vendors, the alert is the business model — they profit from the chase and the cleanup. Real prevention would orphan that revenue. We didn't extend the old model. We replaced it.

Why it keeps getting better

Every attack the engine prevents sharpens its prediction — across every customer environment. Detect-and-respond tools can't build this: they record what happened, not what's about to.

The Technology BriefRead the engine, end to end.
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The Difference

EVERYONE ELSE WATCHES THE TRAFFIC.
WE UNDERSTAND THE INTENT.

And we neutralize the threat — before it executes.

Traditional security reconstructs an attack from the evidence it leaves behind — patterns, signatures, logs, packets. SalienceCyber.ai reads those same signals, then reads what they can't: the meaning and intent behind every interaction with AI — the purpose behind the packet, not just the packet itself. Understanding what is actually happening — not merely that something happened — gives us a clearer, more accurate picture of an attack as it forms, at machine speed. That is what lets us neutralize the threat and enforce policy before it can do harm — instead of chasing the breach after it lands.

Everyone else sees
SalienceCyber.ai understands
Packets on the wire
The purpose behind them
Signatures of the already-known
Intent as it forms
That something moved
Why it moved — and whether it should
The breach, after it lands
The threat, before it executes
What we read Sentiment, semantics, intent, and behavior — plus domain and URL security, entropy, and Layer-7 attack vectors — at the user edge, where AI is actually used.
What we neutralize Misuse, exploitation, and weaponization of AI — plus insider theft, account takeover, and IP loss — before any of it harms the organization.
Why SalienceCyber.ai

AI ISN'T BOLTED ON.
IT'S BUILT IN.

Most "AI security" is AI bolted onto a legacy product — or an agentic framework wrapped around someone else's model. SalienceCyber.ai is different at the root: AI-native, neuromorphic, and built from the first line of code to defend the AI era.

01 · AI-Native
AI-Native to the Core

We didn't add AI — we're made of it. No model bolted onto a legacy scanner. No agentic framework wrapped around a third-party LLM. AI is the architecture, engineered to defend the AI era — native, not retrofitted.

02 · Neuromorphic
It Learns Like the Brain

The CognitionAI Engine is neuromorphic — it learns the way a brain does: directly from the assets, users, and networks it's instrumented within. Not frozen after a lab run, but continuously forming a living model of what's normal in your environment — and what isn't.

03 · Intelligence-Driven
Sharpened by the Threat Landscape

Deep, current intelligence on real adversaries feeds the engine. As the threat landscape shifts, our knowledge shifts with it — so every decision grows more confident, more precise, and more effective for you, over time.

The result: defense that protects from day one — and only compounds from there. SalienceCyber.ai is effective the moment it deploys, then grows sharper, more confident, and more accurate with every attack it sees.

Where We Fit

THE PREVENTION
EDGE OF AIDR.

Today's security stack is built on categories that earn their place: detect-and-respond platforms (SIEM, EDR, NDR, NGFW), the AI copilots now augmenting them, and guardrail products securing one slice of the AI attack surface. Each does real work — but each engages after the fact, where a human grades an alert or a model filters one prompt at a time. A new category is forming for the AI era: AI Detection & Response (AIDR). SalienceCyber.ai is its prevention edge — autonomous prevention across the browser and host, in one decision substrate, before the attack ever runs.

Category 01
Legacy Detect-and-Respond

Built for an era when attacks moved at human speed. Pipeline ends with a human grading an alert. Cannot embrace prevention without orphaning core ARR.

Category 02
AI-Augmented Copilots

An LLM layered on the existing detect-and-respond stack. Faster triage, same architecture. Adds a copilot to the model. Does not replace the model.

Category 03 · SalienceCyber.ai
Autonomous Prevention

Two surfaces, one decision substrate. Browser-side at the agentic AI workload; host-side as prevention-as-code. Decision and action in microseconds. No human in the loop.

Pricing & Engagement

SCALES WITH
YOUR AI ADOPTION.

One license covers the full platform — both browser-side prevention and Core System Defense — priced to the AI attack surface it protects: per seat for the workforce, or enterprise-wide for full coverage. Final pricing is set after a short qualifying and scoping call with your security and procurement teams.

Per-Seat License
The full platform,
priced per seat.

Both planes — browser-side prevention and Core System Defense — in one per-user license. Sized to everyone working with agentic AI: coding copilots, GenAI tools, and in-browser AI. The right starting point for teams rolling out CognitionAI prevention across an AI-using workforce.

  • Volume tiers calibrated to seat count
  • Annual commit · multi-year discount available
  • Browser-side prevention + Core System Defense, one license
Pricing on qualifying call
Enterprise License
The full platform,
enterprise-wide.

The same full platform — browser-side prevention and Core System Defense, both powered by the CognitionAI Engine — licensed enterprise-wide and sized to your attack surface, not headcount. Includes custom integration, multi-region deployment, a dedicated solutions architect, and threat-intelligence services.

  • Sized to attack surface, not headcount
  • SIEM / EDR / SOC integration included
  • Dedicated solutions architect & threat intel
  • POC available to qualified organizations
Priced on an enterprise schedule
Engagements are selective and available to qualified enterprise organizations. POC programs sized to scope.
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Our Story

SECURITY OPS
NEEDED SOMETHING
DIFFERENT

For two decades, security operations changed little. Then AI rewrote the threat landscape — and the tools built for the era before it couldn't keep pace. We built the defense this one demands.

"AI changed the threat landscape overnight. We built the defense to match."

We founded SalienceCyber.ai at the inflection point where AI adoption began outpacing the defenses meant to secure it. We didn't iterate on what existed — we built what didn't: prevention-first, autonomous, and AI-native, at the user edge.

Why We Built It
Experienced Leadership
Built by Those Who Have Seen the Breach Firsthand

Our founding team has spent decades inside the problem — building AI systems, running enterprise security operations, and watching detect-and-respond fail in real time. We didn't theorize a better approach; we built it, because we knew exactly what was missing.

Prevention That Pays for Itself
The Breach That Never Happens Has No Remediation Cost

Every dollar spent on incident response, legal exposure, and reputational recovery is a dollar prevention would have saved. The economics are simple: stopping a breach before it starts costs far less than cleaning one up after.

The CognitionAI Engine
See How It Works →
Our Team

LED BY THOSE WHO HAVE
BEEN ON THE
FRONT LINES

SalienceCyber.ai was founded by operators with decades of combined experience inside enterprise security operations, threat intelligence, AI systems, and cybersecurity company building. We didn't theorize a better approach. We built it because we knew exactly what was missing.

Will Gragido
CEO & Co-Founder

Founder, operator, and product leader with decades inside enterprise security, threat intelligence, and cybersecurity company building. Sets the prevention-first conviction that defines the platform.

John Suit
CTO & Co-Founder

Technical architect of the CognitionAI Engine and the prevention-as-code substrate. Brings a builder's discipline to the neuromorphic mathematics, decision-loop architecture, and the two-surface integration model.

Julie Burgoyne
Chief Operating Officer

Runs the operating discipline behind the platform — engineering velocity, customer programs, and the organizational scaffolding that turns conviction into shipped product. Translates strategy into delivery.

Chris Elisan
Distinguished Research Scientist

Deep-bench malware and threat-research scientist. Anchors the CognitionAI threat model with primary-source research on adversarial AI, agentic exploitation, and the AI-driven attack class.

Pat Belcher
Director, Pre-Sales & Threat Intelligence

Bridges the technical reality of the platform with the operational reality of the buyer. Leads the threat intelligence work product and the pre-sales architecture conversations qualified enterprises rely on.

Engineering, Threat Research & GTM
Building Out

SalienceCyber.ai is hiring across engineering, threat research, and customer-facing roles.

Three Convictions That Drive Everything We Build
01
Breaches don't have to happen.

Every other platform assumes they will. CognitionAI was built on the conviction that with the right neuromorphic AI, threats can be anticipated and eliminated before they execute — not detected after they land.

02
Machine-speed attacks require machine-speed defense.

A human in the loop is a gap in the loop. SalienceCyber.ai operates fully autonomously — no analyst, no playbook, no delay — because when adversaries move in milliseconds, your defense must too.

03
AI adoption and AI-native defense must scale together.

Every AI tool your team deploys expands the attack surface. SalienceCyber.ai is the only platform built to protect that surface in real time — so AI adoption accelerates your business instead of your risk.

The Answer
FOUR OUTCOMES.
ONE PLATFORM.
SalienceCyber.ai doesn't improve the existing model. It replaces it — with autonomous, prevention-first defense built specifically for the AI era.
BROWSER
CONTROL-PLANE
INTERCEPTION
Where your team meets generative AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini — SalienceCyber.ai sees the prompt, the response, and the AI-driven precursor before it crosses to the host.
Browser Surface
HOST-SYSTEM
PRE-EXECUTION
NEUTRALIZATION
The payload doesn't run. The key isn't exfiltrated. The persistence doesn't land. Neutralization completes before the OS schedules the malicious process.
Host Surface
MICROSECOND
DECISION LOOP
NO HUMAN IN THE LOOP
Detect → Assess → Identify → Anticipate → Neutralize, end-to-end in microseconds. Autonomy is not optional at AI-driven attack speed; it is the architecture.
Autonomous
PRE-EXECUTION
TELEMETRY,
NOT POST-MORTEM TICKETS
When SalienceCyber.ai surfaces an event, it's "we stopped this before it ran" — with timing, surface, and class context — not "we found this in your logs three hours later."
Signal Over Noise
Design Partners

WHAT OUR
DESIGN PARTNERS
ARE SAYING

Early conversations with seasoned security leaders shaping how SalienceCyber.ai meets the AI era.

Your employees are using AI tools you can’t see. SalienceCyber.ai fixes that. It captures every AI interaction on the endpoint and turns it into one clean audit trail — visibility and enforcement in the same product, without an LLM sitting in the critical path or another EDR integration to maintain.
Robert Former
Career Cybersecurity Expert & Seasoned CISO
Ready to Stop AI-driven Threats Before They Start?

PREVENTION
BEFORE
EXECUTION

The organizations that deploy SalienceCyber.ai today are the ones that won't spend next year explaining a breach. Prevention-first, host-agentless, and operational from day one.

The AI era is here. Your defense should be too.

Talk to Our Team
Schedule a demo or start with a 30-minute executive briefing — no commitment, no sales pressure.
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What to expect
A focused conversation — not a sales call
Tailored to your environment and threat landscape
POC available to qualified enterprise organizations