Our Vision

Despite significant investments in cybersecurity, organizations worldwide continue to suffer from cyber breaches. Just in 2023 the number of reported data breaches in the United States grew by 78% despite organizations spending $183 billion to protect their digital services.

We believe that recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) present a unique opportunity to improve the discovery, prioritization, and remediation of vulnerabilities faster than ever before.

Our goal is to empower organizations to stay ahead of cyber criminals and nation-state threats, ensuring a safer digital environment for our community and businesses in the private, public, and government sectors.

Peyton Smith

Founder, CEO

Peyton has over 10 years of cybersecurity experience with a focus on 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 over 20 enterprise networks and was a first responder to many of the most sophisticated nation-state and e-crime cyber breaches in the world.

Artem Yankov

Founder, CTO

Artem is a software engineer and cloud architect with over 15 years of experience in building robust backend systems, scalable data and ML pipelines.

Previously, he was at Reddit, where he worked on core services that power the main feeds, 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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