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4 min readSprino team

Security research that never leaves your boundary

Regulated teams cannot ship source, build artifacts or identity configuration to a hosted AI service. The research has to come to the code.

The teams with the most to gain from deep exploit verification are often the ones least able to use hosted tools for it. Source residency rules, network egress controls and customer contracts all point the same way: the code stays inside, and so does everything derived from it.

So Sprino deploys into your VPC, your Kubernetes cluster or a disconnected environment. Source code, models, build state and exploit execution stay inside the boundary you control. In zero-egress mode, source fragments leave only when your policy explicitly allows it, and every such event is logged.

Treat the repository as hostile

A repository is not just code. It carries hooks, build scripts, tool configuration and, increasingly, instructions aimed at AI agents. All of it is untrusted input. Builds and exploit attempts run in ephemeral, resource-limited sandboxes, and we reconstruct only the security-relevant path rather than the whole application.

Sign the rules before anything runs

Authorized scope, forbidden actions, blast-radius limits and a named approver are signed as rules of engagement before any exploit executes. Configuration, model, prompt, build and evidence manifests are signed too, so a result can be reproduced and audited later.

Bring your own models

You allowlist the models by origin, license, hosting and data handling. The proof protocol is model-neutral, so the model is never the product. What you buy is the verification: an exploit that ran, a patch that held, and a receipt you can hand to an auditor.