Business Path · LB · AUTOMATION_SERVICE
AI-code provenance gate setup + monitoring service
Opportunity: AI-code provenance attestation (CI/procurement gate) · Pays: CISO
The opportunity
continuous provenance enforcement without building tooling
Target customer: security/DevOps teams · Why now: policy-as-code gates need operator
Business model
Commercial: productized service · Revenue: setup + MRR · Pricing: $8k setup + $1k-3k/mo · Automation: SEMI_AUTOMATED
Minimum launch version
productized service — software is not required first.
Step-by-step: {"day_1": "buyer interviews", "days_2_3": "build MVP deliverable", "days_4_7": "land first pilot", "week_2": "first paid engagement", "weeks_3_4": "standardize", "month_2": "3+ customers", "month_3": "automate"}
Financial scenarios (illustrative)
Financial scenarios and full pathway economics are in the report. Public pages keep the pathway framing, not the numbers. Read the report — free during Open Access.
Risks / Substitutes / Falsifiers
Main risks: JFrog ships equivalent
Substitutes: JFrog AppTrust, SLSA generators
Falsifiers: JFrog/GitHub cover the gate
Moat / asset flywheel
AI-code provenance/posture corpus + benchmark — each assessment adds posture benchmark data