Small engineering teams move fast and can't afford a dedicated AppSec hire. Safeguard gives you continuous SBOM, reachability-aware CVE triage, and PR-ready fixes on a free tier that scales with you — so security never becomes a fundraising-stage liability.
Three reasons early-stage engineering teams pick Safeguard over rolling their own scripts.
Five repos, ten thousand scans a month, and the full Griffin engine — at zero cost. No credit card, no scan caps that throttle you at the wrong moment, no asterisks on the SBOM.
Install the GitHub or GitLab app, pick the repos, and you have continuous SBOMs and CVE scanning before lunch. Lion runs on the developer's laptop with no source code ever leaving the machine.
The free tier shares the same engine, policies, and APIs as the enterprise plan. When you hire your first security lead — or your first auditor calls — flip a billing switch, not a stack.
Four places the wheels come off for early-stage teams — and why tooling is cheaper than another headcount.
Small teams ship faster than they can review. The first AppSec hire is twelve months away — tooling has to fill the gap until then.
Two hundred questions, two weeks before the deal closes. Without an evidence pipeline, the answers come from a panicked all-hands and a shared Google Doc.
Accidental GPL or AGPL in a closed-source product, spotted by an acquirer's diligence team eighteen months later. The cleanup is more expensive than the deal.
The founder should be selling the product, not answering vendor risk forms manually. Every hour spent on security paperwork is an hour not spent on growth.
Seven metrics that move once the platform is wired in.
Wire up your first repo in under ten minutes and let Safeguard handle the supply chain while you ship the product.