Executive Summary

Modern package ecosystems allow arbitrary install-time scripts to run with developer or CI privileges, creating a persistent and understudied attack surface for developer organizations, platform teams, and security groups. This is material for enterprises — roughly 250,000 developer organizations could justify a $30K annual contract for tools that prevent these attacks — because provenance alone does not prevent malicious or accidental behavior executed during npm, pip, cargo, or system package installs. A practical product would sandbox installs at the package-manager level, execute install-time hooks in a constrained environment, and emit verifiable signed attestations stored in an open transparency log so CI/CD gates or runtime platforms can decide whether to trust a package. Deliverables would include lightweight client integrations (CI plugins and developer CLI), a policy-as-code engine to approve or block behaviors, and an enterprise console for audit and incident response. The window for this is favorable: supply-chain breaches and media attention have shifted budgets toward prevention, organizations are moving security earlier into CI/CD, and standards momentum (Sigstore/Rekor) makes install-time attestations interoperable. Market signals back this up — an addressable market of roughly $7.5B, a market score of 92/100 and revenue potential 88/100 — implying buyers and willingness to pay. To differentiate, prioritize low-latency, cross-ecosystem support and first-class attestation compatibility rather than treating this as another SBOM or signature product; coupling accurate behavioral analysis with auditable attestations creates a defensible enterprise wedge. Be honest about challenges: significant engineering effort to cover many package ecosystems, the risk of developer friction and false positives, and the sales/organizational work required to place an install-time control plane into CI/CD and platform tooling.

Executive Summary

Market Opportunity

Stop trusting install-time scripts — sandbox and attest package installs targets a $7.5B = 250,000 developer organizations x $30K ACV (enterprise-focused developer security & supply chain tooling) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 14% (application and supply-chain security market growth).

Key trends driving demand: Software supply-chain attacks -- Increased breaches and media attention drive security buys and budgets toward prevention rather than remediation.; Shift-left DevSecOps -- Enterprises embed security in CI/CD pipelines, creating demand for pre-install checks and gateable attestations.; Open attestation standards -- Sigstore/Rekor momentum makes signed/install attestations and provenance verifiable across ecosystems.; AI-enabled code analysis -- Large models and static-analysis ML improve detection of obfuscated install-time payloads and unusual side effects..

Key competitors include Snyk, Sonatype (Nexus IQ), GitHub Dependabot & GitHub Advanced Security, Sigstore / Rekor (adjacent open-source), npm audit / pip-audit (native workarounds).

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Stop trusting install-time scripts — sandbox and attest package installs

Executive Summary

Stop trusting install-time scripts — sandbox and attest package installs

Executive Summary

Market Validation

Market Opportunity

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