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About ColdRecon

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ColdRecon is a daily competitive intelligence service for cybersecurity sales engineers. We turn the noise of the security news cycle into one short brief, written from the seller's seat.

// Why We Exist

Competitive intelligence never fits in the day.

Ask any sales engineer in security what falls off their plate first, and it is the same answer. Tracking the competition is real work, and it loses every time to the demo, the POC, and the security questionnaire due at five.

So it does not get done. The battlecard goes stale. The competitor ships a CVE and nobody on the team notices until a prospect mentions it across the table. A deal gets harder than it had to be, because of news you could have seen coming.

ColdRecon is built by people who lived that. We spent careers in cybersecurity pre-sales, and we built the brief we always wanted: the competition, read for you, before your first call.

// What We Believe

Four principles.

// 01

Intelligence should be read for you

The job is not another dashboard to check. It is a brief that already did the thinking and tells you what to do.

// 02

Context beats headlines

A signal only matters next to your deals. Every item we send answers the only question that counts: so what, for you.

// 03

Open-source, in the open

We monitor public information only. No surveillance, no private data, nothing a competitor did not publish themselves.

// 04

The wedge stays free

The Daily Brief is free, and it stays free. Cleared access to the Terminal is there when you want more, never as a toll on the basics.

A note on the open-source part.

ColdRecon is an open-source intelligence service in the literal sense. Everything in your brief is drawn from public, published signal: CVE databases, vendor advisories and newsrooms, the security trade press, and public practitioner discussion. We do not collect private information about any company, and we do not help anyone do so. The work is reading what is already public, carefully and on time, and turning it into something a seller can use.

// The Team

Who builds this.

ColdRecon is built by a small team of former sales engineers and the people who supported them in the field. Between us we have carried the bag through startups and incumbents in security, run the competitive deals, and built the battlecards by hand at midnight. We are building the tool we wish we had had.

Read the brief the competition hasn't.

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