The problem
AI-assisted development turned feature work from a multi-week team effort into an overnight task. But the code it produces still ships with hardcoded secrets, missing auth, injection paths and default configs — and the only established way to check was a consultancy engagement priced and paced for a slower era.
Philosophy
Kadense sits between development and deployment as a quality gate. It measures — it never modifies. Four principles govern every assessment and every badge we issue.
Your code is staged in an isolated, no-network sandbox, analysed, and destroyed after the run. We never modify, execute against your infrastructure, or retain source. We assess, score, and report — nothing else.
Every finding cites the file and line it came from. Every check runs through multiple independent passes and is cross-validated; agreement between passes becomes a confidence score you can see. No vibes, no black box.
A badge issues only when every gate clears: the severity-weighted score meets threshold, zero critical or high failures remain, and confidence is sufficient. There is no manual override — not for us, not for you.
A badge records an assessed posture at a point in time, against a recorded, immutable scope — and says so publicly. What was assessed, what was excluded and why, and when it expires are visible to every verifier. Trust comes from precision, not promises.
No overclaiming
In a category full of bold claims, precision is the differentiator. Here is exactly where we stand.
What it does
Upload a codebase and get a reasoned, framework-mapped posture score, evidence-cited findings, and a prioritised remediation queue — with fix instructions your team can paste into their own tools. Recurring on a cadence, so posture is tracked over time instead of measured once a year.
At go-live, a defined, detect-only check of your public surface — TLS posture, exposed paths, security headers — adds a layer of evidence that your live system was looked at. Scope is signed, every target ownership-verified, every action logged to a forensic timeline.
An evidence layer — not a penetration test, and never sold as one.
Why "Kadense"
No assessment — human or machine — finds everything on the first pass. We don't pretend otherwise. The answer isn't a perfect single run; it's security through repetition: regular, scheduled re-assessment that keeps your posture current, visible, and on the record.
You define your cadence in the console — weekly, monthly, per release. Assessment windows open on schedule, your team is notified, and every window is recorded. Miss one, and it's flagged in your report and visible to anyone verifying your badge. The rhythm is the product.
How it works
Independent of your pipeline — upload or connect whenever a window opens, on demand or on schedule. No CI/CD integration required.
Upload a ZIP or connect your repository. Every one of the 562 checks is carried through the run against your whole codebase. Typically 150–200 turn out to actually apply — and each of the rest is marked not-applicable with its reason, judged against your code rather than assumed away beforehand.
Contextual analysis — architecture, data flows, auth model, crypto — not pattern-matching. Multiple independent passes per check, cross-validated in an isolated sandbox.
A severity-weighted score, findings with file:line citations, remediation guidance, and a live console that tracks what cleared between runs — no static PDFs.
When every gate clears, a verification badge issues automatically — with an immutable scope record your customers and their procurement teams can check independently.
Validation
We built AI-generated applications ourselves and commissioned independent, third-party penetration testing firms to assess them. Their findings became our calibration baseline: the engine is tuned until it identifies the same issues — the same injection paths, the same session flaws, the same misconfigurations — with the goal of being as true as a manual pentest, or truer.
The difference isn't what gets found. It's when — and how often. A pentest is a snapshot you commission once a year; Kadense repeats the measurement on every scheduled window.
Org-wide visibility
Teams, contractors and individual builders now ship production software in parallel — often without anyone watching the whole board. Kadense groups every application into projects and shows your entire development stack in one view: who's assessed, who's badged, who's drifting, and where the next window falls.
Confidence the team is shipping sound systems — without standing up a security function. A signal, not a project: posture per app, trend per team, one number for the board.
Continuous visibility across many apps and teams with the noise cut down — reasoned findings, evidence you can point to, and a queue that tracks who is fixing what.
The depth of a security expert without the headcount or the six-figure engagement — in plain language, with "I'm not sure" always a valid answer.
The badge
Anyone — a customer, a procurement team, an auditor — can verify a Kadense badge and see exactly what it covers: assessment date, expiry, files and stack assessed, checks applied and excluded, score and confidence. No source code is ever exposed.
We're equally clear about what it isn't: not a guarantee of zero vulnerabilities, not a runtime assessment, not coverage for code we never saw. That honesty is the point — a trust signal that overclaims is worthless.
Multiple independent passes reason about each applicable check and are cross-validated; agreement becomes a confidence score you can see. Every verdict cites the file and line it came from.
Kadense itself is independently penetration-tested. We don't say "trust us" — we hold ourselves to the same scrutiny we help you build towards.
Fail-closed engine, findings that quote their evidence, a badge that states its own limits, and code that is never stored — deleted after every run, with the deletion logged.
Register your application, run your first assessment, and see exactly where you stand — in minutes.