Security storytellers and responders.
We built BreachModal because every major breach we responded to had the same problem: the tooling was fine, but the communication was chaos. Executives didn't understand the risk. Engineers were paralysed by alert noise. Legal was writing emails in the dark. We fixed that.
Fritz Heider — Founder
Fritz has spent his career on the offensive side of security — breaking into systems with permission so their owners could fix them before someone without permission tried. He founded BreachModal after seeing the same pattern on engagement after engagement: the tools detected plenty, but response fell apart in the gap between the alert and the humans who had to act on it.
BreachModal is his answer to that gap — AI that drafts the response plan, gathers the evidence, and does the legwork, while people keep the authority over anything that touches production.
His philosophy is simple: security isn't compliance paperwork — it's making sure your worst day is survivable.
“You can’t defend what you don’t understand. We don’t sell fear. We sell clarity — the kind that keeps organizations alive when everything else fails.”
24/7
Incident response coverage
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Clouds covered natively
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Automated actions without human sign‑off
Mission & values
We exist to make the worst moments in a security team's life a little less terrible — and ideally, to prevent them altogether.
- ✓Empower teams with clarity during their most critical moments.
- ✓Design interfaces that delight and educate every stakeholder.
- ✓Champion responsible AI and privacy-first data practices.
How we operate
BreachModal marries field-tested playbooks with a calm, human tone. Every engagement is structured around rapid onboarding, transparent reporting, and collaborative hardening sprints.
- ✓Immersive onboarding to map crown-jewel systems in under 72 hours.
- ✓Shared command centres that visualise risk in plain language.
- ✓Continuous improvement loops fuelled by red-team retrospectives.
Leadership
Practitioners first. Every member of our leadership team has worked on the front lines of breach response.
Fritz Heider
Founder & CEO
Former CISO at two Fortune 500 companies. Built BreachModal after leading responses to three major cloud breaches and realising the tooling gap was a human problem, not a technical one.
Riley Small
Chief Financial Officer
15 years in security-sector finance, previously at Palo Alto Networks. Architect of BreachModal's transparent pricing model and enterprise commercial structure.
Ryan Hill
Head of Offensive Security
Red team lead with backgrounds spanning NSA, CISA advisory roles, and five years building purple-team programmes for global banks. Holds OSCP, GXPN, and CRTO.
Rachel Cresta
Director of Customer Trust
Former DPO at a European fintech. Drove SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certifications at two start-ups before zero. Obsessive about audit-ready documentation and customer SLAs.
Our story
Five years from research collective to the platform securing over 600 production databases.
The idea takes shape.
After watching incident after incident fail on communication rather than tooling, we start prototyping AI-guided incident playbooks.
First working platform.
Detection, triage, and human-approved remediation come together in one workspace, tested against simulated breach scenarios.
Multi-cloud coverage lands.
Native support for AWS, Azure, and GCP, with control mapping for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR programs.
BreachModal today.
An AI-native breach response platform with human-in-the-loop approvals, audit-ready evidence trails, and free practitioner guides.
Want to join the team?
We're hiring across offensive security, AI engineering, and customer success.
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