Forged in Zero-Days.
pwn.ai is built by a team of elite offensive security and zero-day researchers with a combined 150+ published CVEs, Fortune 500 clients, and research covered by TechCrunch, Vice, SecurityWeek, Yahoo and Forbes.
From Zero-Day Research to Autonomous Offense
Our team has been breaking software to make it safer since 2019. With 150+ published CVEs — including CVSS 9.8 critical vulnerabilities in Juniper, TerraMaster, and CentOS — and a client roster of Fortune 500 companies, our researchers have spent years finding the bugs that matter most.
We saw the gap. Manual pentesting couldn't keep up with the pace of modern software development. Automated scanners produced noise, not proof. The industry needed a machine that could think and attack like our best researchers — but run around the clock on every commit.
So we built pwn.ai — an autonomous pentesting engine that combines everything we learned from years of zero-day research with the reasoning capabilities of agentic LLMs. Built to Breach.
“We spent years finding bugs that nobody else could find. Then we taught the machine to do the same — but at 3am, on every commit, without sleeping.”
The people behind pwn.ai.
Offensive security researchers and engineers, backed by one of the pioneers of artificial general intelligence.
Paulos Yibelo Mesfin
Co-founder & CEOOffensive security researcher behind PwnEscape, a critical guest-to-host escape affecting multiple Linux hypervisors. Leads offensive research at pwn.ai.
Nigusu Kassahun
Co-founder & CTOLeads engineering across the pwn.ai scanner engine, AI validation pipeline, backend and infrastructure, turning the team's research methodology into validated, automated findings.
Defeat the attackers before they strike.
Our mission is to make autonomous offensive security accessible to every team — turning the best human hacking techniques into a machine-scale defense system.
How we operate.
Proof Over Claims
Every assertion backed by evidence. Every finding backed by a working exploit. We don't guess — we prove.
Move with Precision
Fast doesn't mean reckless. We move quickly with surgical accuracy. Every decision is deliberate.
Own the Outcome
We hire experts and trust them to lead. Everyone owns their area, from architecture decisions to customer impact.
Radical Transparency
Direct, respectful honesty. With our team, our customers, and in our reporting. No hidden agendas.
Solve What Matters
Focus on impact, not activity. We build for the vulnerabilities that actually get exploited, not checkbox compliance.
Win as One
Security is a team sport. We collaborate across disciplines, share knowledge openly, and celebrate collective wins.
Join the team.
We're hiring security researchers, AI/ML engineers, and full-stack builders who want to redefine offensive security.