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Your AI Product Ships Fast. Is It Secure?

AI startups face attack surfaces that traditional security testing was never designed for. We test LLM-powered applications, AI agents, prompt injection resistance, and the vibe-coded infrastructure underneath it all.

LLM-Powered Applications AI Agent Platforms AI Infrastructure & MLOps AI-Enhanced SaaS Computer Vision & Robotics
engagement log Cybersecurity for AI Startups testing
day 01scopetargets confirmed · rules of engagement signedagreed
day 01reconattack surface mappedcomplete
day 02findingbroken access control on a tenant boundarycritical
day 03findingsecrets recoverable from a build artifacthigh
day 04triagereviewed and countersigned by a Lorikeet pentesterpublished
day 04delivertickets opened in your tracker201
afterretestfixes verified · included in scopeno charge
retest included human countersigned report your auditor accepts
6engagements we recommend here 5sub-sectors covered fixedscope and price, published 14frameworks on one programme
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Why this sector gets targeted

AI startups are building products with novel attack surfaces that the security industry is still catching up to. LLM-powered applications are vulnerable to prompt injection, jailbreaking, and data extraction attacks that bypass traditional input validation. AI agents with tool access, API keys, and database credentials create privilege escalation paths that did not exist 18 months ago. The rapid development pace - often using AI coding tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude to build the product itself - compounds the risk with vibe-coded infrastructure that may contain hardcoded secrets, broken authentication, and insecure defaults. Meanwhile, enterprise buyers evaluating AI products are increasingly requiring evidence of security testing before procurement, making a pentest a revenue enabler rather than just a risk mitigation exercise.

Fit

Who we work with here

LLM-Powered Applications
AI Agent Platforms
AI Infrastructure & MLOps
AI-Enhanced SaaS
Computer Vision & Robotics
Engagements

What we usually run

Scoped for this sector rather than sold as a catalogue. Each one is fixed scope with retest included.

AI Agent Penetration Testing

Test your agents for prompt injection, tool abuse, and privilege escalation.

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Web Application Penetration Testing

Your AI product still runs on a web application with traditional attack surfaces.

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API Penetration Testing

AI products are API-heavy. Test your inference endpoints, webhooks, and integrations.

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Vibe Coding Security Reviews

If your product was built with AI coding tools, verify the code is secure.

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SOC 2 Penetration Testing

Enterprise AI buyers expect SOC 2 compliance. Get audit-ready reports.

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Security Code Reviews

Find logic flaws in your AI pipeline, data handling, and authentication code.

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Why us

What you get working with Lorikeet

  • Specialized testing for LLM applications, AI agents, and prompt injection attack vectors
  • Experience reviewing AI-generated codebases built with Cursor, Copilot, and Claude
  • Reports designed to satisfy enterprise buyers, SOC 2 auditors, and investor due diligence
Questions

Asked on almost every call

Prompt injection is an attack where malicious input manipulates your LLM into ignoring its system prompt and following attacker instructions instead. If your AI product processes any user input, you are potentially vulnerable. We test for direct injection, indirect injection via retrieved content, and multi-step attacks that chain prompt manipulation with tool access.

AI coding tools generate functional code fast but consistently produce insecure patterns - hardcoded credentials, missing authorization checks, verbose error messages, and insecure defaults. Our vibe coding reviews are specifically designed to catch what LLMs get wrong.

Yes. AI agents introduce attack surfaces that traditional pentesting does not cover - tool call authorization, credential exposure in agent context, autonomous decision-making boundaries, and the ability to chain actions in ways the developer never intended. We test the agent itself, its tool integrations, and the boundaries of what it can do.

Before your first enterprise customer, before your SOC 2 audit, or before any fundraise where investors will ask about security. If your AI product handles customer data, has tool access to external systems, or processes sensitive information, you should be testing now.

We always coordinate testing scope and boundaries with your engineering team. For AI products, we use controlled test inputs, sandboxed environments when available, and escalation procedures for any unexpected behavior. We will never run destructive tests against production AI systems without explicit authorization.

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Scope it in one call

Tell us what is in scope and we come back with a fixed price and a start date.

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