How Artisan shifted from reactive to proactive security as Ava opened to self serve
CodeAnt AI helped us shift from reactive to proactive security. The findings were actionable from day one.
Jaspar Carmichael-Jack
CEO, Artisan (Series A, $17M+ Raised)
Artisan's Ava runs the full outbound workflow end to end. Sourcing, enrichment, multichannel outreach, reply handling, and meeting booking, across a database of hundreds of millions of contacts.
CHALLENGE
Self serve growth changes the shape of the perimeter every week.
In 2026 Artisan opened Ava up to self serve. Signups, mailbox connections, and new infrastructure now arrive continuously instead of through a controlled enterprise onboarding. The product surface expands on its own schedule, not on the security team's.
WHY CODEANT
Two vendors were producing two lists that never met.
Ava changes every week, so a test reflecting the product as it looked last quarter is worth very little. And a defensive scanner that has never seen a real attack path cannot tell them which of its ten thousand findings actually matters.
Artisan wanted one system that continuously learns from the offense to build the defense. Attack the live product, prove what is exploitable, then push that knowledge down into the code so the next release ships closed.
WHAT WE RAN
Live attack surface management as the product surface expands. Shadow IT discovery across the environments self serve growth creates. Credential and session token monitoring, so a leaked key is caught by Artisan and not by someone else.
WHAT CHANGED
