AI-powered Offensive Security Platform

Automated cyber-attack simulations to identify, assess, and remediate vulnerabilities

AI robot

Human-AI Teaming

Continuous security testing

Continuous automated security testing using autonomous AI agents.

Complex attack simulations

Automated simulation of advanced tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to simulate advanced offensive tradecraft.

Faster Remediation

AI-driven customized recommendations to improve vulnerability remediation time.

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Why Specular?

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) grant the ability to automate and augment vulnerability assessments. Our platform uses AI to simulate advanced offensive tactics, enabling faster and more accurate vulnerability detection and remediation.

Our Mission

Building a Secure digital environment for our community and organizations in the private, public, and government sectors.

Meet Our Founders

Peyton Smith

Peyton Smith

Founder, CEO

Peyton is a software engineer turned cyber security specialist with experience in Red Teaming, Incident Response, and Threat Intelligence.


Before Specular, Peyton spent 5 years at CrowdStrike Services performing offensive operations and incident response for the Fortune 500. He has breached numerous enterprise networks and was a first responder to many of the most sophisticated nation-state and e-crime cyber intrusions in the world.

Prior to CrowdStrike, Peyton spent several years at Anomali (formerly ThreatStream) tracking Threat Actor activity by building OSINT and malware analysis pipelines.

Artem Yankov

Artem Yankov

Founder, CTO

Artem is an experienced software engineer and cloud architect who specializes in building robust backend systems and ML pipelines.


Previously, he was at Reddit, where he worked on core services that power the main feeds and was responsible for ranking, personalization, subreddit recommendations, and image search functionalities.

After Reddit, he worked at Lyell, where he led several projects to build data platform and cloud services, supporting research labs and a biomanufacturing facility.

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