We got tired of maybe.

Why this exists

Most security tooling is optimised to produce findings. That is not the same as producing security. A scanner that reports two hundred issues has moved the work, not done it — somebody on your team still has to open each one, work out whether it is reachable, and decide whether it matters. Most of them are not, and most of that time is wasted.

Working the other side of that pipeline as vulnerability reporters taught us what a finding has to contain before an engineer will act on it: a reproduction they can re-run cold, and a clear statement of what an attacker gets. Anything less gets closed, and it deserves to be.

So RootXLabs inverts the default. An agent that cannot demonstrate an issue does not get to report it. That means we surface fewer findings than a scanner will. Every one of them is real.

How we work

• Exploit or it did not happen. Findings ship with a working proof-of-concept. If the agent cannot build one, the finding stays internal and a human looks at it.
• Scope is sacred. We test what you own and authorize, and nothing adjacent to it — no matter how interesting it looks.
• We take the minimum. One record instead of the table, a redacted screenshot instead of a dump. Enough to prove it, no more.
• Severity is honest. If a bug is a Low, we call it a Low. Inflating severity to look productive burns the trust that makes the next report worth reading.

Track record

Our research team reports vulnerabilities to vendors under coordinated disclosure, including identifier-assigned issues in widely deployed products. We publish a finding only once the vendor has shipped a fix and cleared it — so several of ours are not listed anywhere yet, and will not be until they are. If you are evaluating us and want the detail before then, ask and we will walk you through it under NDA.

We hold ourselves to the disclosure timeline on our responsible disclosure page, in both directions — including when the report is about us.

Where we are

Early. We would rather tell you that than pad this page with a leadership grid and customer logos we have not earned. There is no SOC 2 report yet, no ISO certificate, and no paid bug bounty. When those exist they will be listed with dates and auditor names, not as badges.

What we do have is a working platform, a research record we will show you under NDA, and the willingness to run it against a scope you control before you pay us anything.

Talk to us

Engagements and pricing: hello@rootxlabs.ai. Security issues in our own systems: security@rootxlabs.ai.