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How the agent runs it
AutoProbe sells a managed bug bounty triage service to SaaS companies that run public or private vulnerability disclosure programs but lack the internal security engineering bandwidth to process reports. Incoming reports flow from HackerOne or a hosted submission form into the agent team, which validates reproducibility, scores severity using CVSS criteria, deduplicates, writes structured remediation briefs for the client's engineering team, and triggers compliant payouts via Stripe Connect — all without human intervention on standard report flows. The CEO agent monitors SLA timers, escalates novel zero-days or disputed payouts to the human owner, and sends weekly digest reports to each client.
Who this is for
Ideal for a founder with a background in application security, penetration testing, or SaaS DevSecOps who already understands CVSS scoring, responsible disclosure norms, and how to read a proof-of-concept exploit. They do not need to review every report themselves — they just need enough domain fluency to handle the 4% of escalations involving genuine critical or disputed findings. This suits a solo operator who wants a recurring B2B revenue stream without managing a human analyst team.
Market opportunity
The global bug bounty and vulnerability disclosure market exceeded $1.1B in managed payouts in 2023 and is growing at roughly 20% annually as SOC 2 and ISO 27001 requirements push mid-market SaaS companies to run formal VDP programs. Most companies between 20–200 engineers cannot justify a full-time security triage analyst but are flooded with low-quality reports they lack the process to handle. The rise of AI-assisted security research has simultaneously increased report volume, making automated triage infrastructure commercially urgent for the first time.
Boss agent: VECTOR
VECTOR orchestrates the full report lifecycle — assigning incoming submissions to specialist agents, enforcing SLA deadlines, routing escalations to humans, and compiling weekly client digest reports — acting as the operational CEO of the bureau.
- ■ No bounty payout above $2,000 is triggered without a completed duplicate-check and a Jira ticket confirmed open by the client engineering team
- ■ Any report scored CVSS 9.0+ immediately pauses automated workflow and fires a human SMS escalation — no exceptions
- ■ Every client receives a structured weekly digest by Monday 08:00 their local timezone regardless of report volume, including zero-report weeks
The agent team
Human touchpoints
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- 👤 Reviewing and approving any bounty payout exceeding $2,000 or any report scored CVSS 9.0+ before the Jira ticket and payout are confirmed
- 👤 Signing MSAs and data processing agreements with new clients (legal signature requirement for B2B contracts involving security data)
- 👤 Handling researcher escalations that involve a formal dispute, allegation of unfair scoring, or threat of public disclosure before patch — requires human judgment and relationship management
- 👤 Authorizing new client onboarding and configuring their specific payout table, scope definitions, and Jira workspace credentials in the system
Tech stack
Monetization
Clients pay a flat monthly retainer of $1,500–$4,000 based on program volume (number of reports/month), plus a 6% administrative fee on all bounty payouts processed through the platform — aligning AutoProbe's revenue with program activity.
Key risks
- → False-negative severity scoring on a critical zero-day could cause a client breach before engineers are alerted — requires hard escalation thresholds
- → HackerOne API rate limits and policy changes could break ingestion pipelines if not monitored with redundant polling logic
Getting started
- 1 Sign one pilot client before building anythingCold-outreach five SaaS CTOs or Heads of Security who have an active HackerOne or Bugcrowd program. Offer a free 30-day pilot in exchange for real report volume — this validates demand and gives you live data to tune agent scoring logic before charging.
- 2 Build the HackerOne ingestion pipeline firstUse HackerOne's REST API webhooks to push new report payloads into a Claude Managed Agents queue. Structure the payload schema (title, description, attachments, reporter reputation score) so every downstream agent receives a consistent JSON object.
- 3 Prompt-engineer the CVSS Scoring Agent with test casesCollect 30–50 real anonymized historical reports from public HackerOne disclosures and manually label their correct CVSS scores. Use these as few-shot calibration examples in the Scoring Agent's system prompt to achieve >90% agreement with human analyst benchmarks before go-live.
- 4 Wire Stripe Connect for compliant bounty disbursementSet up a Stripe Connect platform account so payouts flow from the client's funding balance to researcher accounts with full 1099 tax documentation auto-generated. This removes the most operationally painful step from every bug bounty program and is a key sales differentiator.
- 5 Set hard escalation rules in the CEO orchestrator agentProgram VECTOR as the supervisor agent with non-negotiable triggers: any CVSS score above 9.0, any report involving authentication bypass or RCE, or any researcher dispute exceeding $500 must fire a human SMS alert via Twilio within 60 seconds — this is the safety net that keeps autonomy high without creating liability.
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