Corridor growth playbook

Refresh the three guides for 2026 and add four head-to-head pages: Corridor vs Snyk, vs Semgrep, vs Endor Labs and vs CodeRabbit. Compare what each does at generation time, at commit, at PR and after merge, which agents it hooks into, how noise is handled and how pricing works, quoting each rival's current wording. End each page with a 14-day proof of value on the buyer's own repo. The same tables become the founding PMM's competitor comparisons for sales.

Comparison searches come from buyers already shortlisting, and AI assistants answer "Snyk vs Corridor" from whatever pages exist. Accurate, dated pages win that moment and give the AE and sales engineer one consistent story.

Stage | Corridor | Rival
While the agent plans | guardrails returned to the agent | ?
At commit (cloud agents) | pre-commit scan, fix in session | ?
At pull request | contextual review, merge policy | ?
After merge | agent triage of backlog | ?
Agents supported | Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Devin, Factory | ?
Noise handling | self-improving feedback loop | ?
Pricing | $20 Pro, $40/dev Team | ?

• Rivals change their messaging

  Date every page and refresh quarterly.

• Looks like attack marketing

  Credit what each rival does well; compare stages, not adjectives.

• Your websiteLearn center (29 pages, checked October 22, 2026): three buyer-guide pages still carry 2025 in their titles: "Best AI Code Review Tools for Security in 2025", "Best AI-Native SAST Tools in 2025" and "Best SAST Tools for Code Security in 2025". The code review guide compares Corridor with Greptile, CodeRabbit and Snyk and says of Snyk: "it was built for a pre-AI world. It scans code after it's written".Source
• Competitor researchRivals' own homepages now claim the AI coding ground: Snyk, "Snyk secures the code AI writes, the agents it runs, and the apps it builds"; Endor Labs, "Agentic Application Security Platform"; Backslash, "Secure AI Agents with Agentic AI Security"; Semgrep, "AI-assisted SAST, SCA and Secrets Detection"; Aikido, "Secure everything your devs build, ship & run."See the research Source
• Partner researchCursor's hooks partners page lists Corridor under "Code security and best practices" next to Semgrep, Endor Labs, Snyk, 1Password, MintMCP, Oasis Security and Runlayer, each with an "Integrate ... with Cursor" link.See the research Source
• HiringFounding Product Marketing Manager (posted September 8, 2026): "help define how Corridor goes to market as we build a new category in AI security"; "Own competitive intelligence across the AI security market - tracking competitors, product capabilities, and launches, and turning those insights into clear messaging, competitor comparisons, and guidance for Sales"; "Create and ship ... website content and sales decks to case studies, messaging, launches"; "Test and iterate across positioning, messaging, launches, and demand generation."Source
• HiringSales hiring: a second Sales Engineer to "Design and execute POVs inside customer environments, integrating Corridor with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD" and improve "demo environments, POV methodology, technical collateral, and objection handling"; an Account Executive who partners "with Customer Success to convert POVs into closed deals" and gives feedback on "best-fit customer profile, qualification, pricing, and deal structure".Source

Pick one category phrase (for example "security for AI coding agents") and use it in the homepage title, description and first subhead, then align the pricing, demo and product page descriptions. Keep ACSM as the term the learn center explains.

The title is the strongest on-page signal for search and for AI summaries, and a consistent phrase is the founding PMM's first positioning test.

• Phrase does not stick

  Change one page at a time and compare.

• Your websiteHomepage: the page title is only "Corridor" and the meta description is "Secure AI Coding at the Source. Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before they're even written", while the H1 says "Security for Software That Builds Itself." The page shows 20+ customer logos (Etsy, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, LangChain, Qlik, Sublime Security, Pylon and more) and six named quotes, e.g. LangChain's Head of Security: Corridor "has stopped them from shipping critical infrastructure vulnerabilities".Source
• HiringFounding Product Marketing Manager (posted September 8, 2026): "help define how Corridor goes to market as we build a new category in AI security"; "Own competitive intelligence across the AI security market - tracking competitors, product capabilities, and launches, and turning those insights into clear messaging, competitor comparisons, and guidance for Sales"; "Create and ship ... website content and sales decks to case studies, messaging, launches"; "Test and iterate across positioning, messaging, launches, and demand generation."Source
• Your websiteSitemap (79 URLs): 29 learn pages, 27 blog and research posts, three product pages, event pages (RSA, Black Hat, re:Invent, roadshow), a Latio report page and a Shai Hulud checker; no customers or case-study pages and no "Corridor vs" pages.Source

Add six answers: trial length and what happens after it, what counts as a PR review and what happens at the limit, how Pro users move to Team, data handling (link the Trust Center), buying on AWS Marketplace, and how a proof of value works. Rename the buttons to "Start free trial".

Clear limits remove the reasons developers stall at checkout, and the Marketplace answer shortens procurement for enterprise buyers.

• Limits scare small users

  Explain what happens at the limit, not just the limit.

• Your websitePricing: Pro $20 a month "For individual developers" (up to 5 projects, 100 PR reviews a month), Team $40 per developer a month (up to 20 projects), Enterprise "Contact Sales"; "Start with a free trial", buttons say "Get Started for Free"; the FAQ has one question, on how developers are counted.Source
• Your websiteDistribution already in place: the homepage links Corridor listings on the AWS Marketplace, the Vercel Marketplace, Devin's MCP marketplace and the VS Code marketplace, with setup docs for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and Copilot; the blog announced the AWS Marketplace listing (December 1, 2025), Cursor hooks (December 22, 2025), Factory hooks (March 4, 2026), a Cursor plugin (May 20, 2026) and Codex (May 28, 2026).Source
• HiringSales hiring: a second Sales Engineer to "Design and execute POVs inside customer environments, integrating Corridor with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD" and improve "demo environments, POV methodology, technical collateral, and objection handling"; an Account Executive who partners "with Customer Success to convert POVs into closed deals" and gives feedback on "best-fit customer profile, qualification, pricing, and deal structure".Source

Write three short stories with numbers: tools evaluated, PRs reviewed per month, high and critical findings caught before merge, false-positive rate and engineering hours saved. Add a /customers page with logos linking to the stories, and use each story in the matching industry's outreach.

Named, numbered proof from security leaders is what moves another CISO, and it already exists in the quotes.

• Security customers avoid publicity

  Offer anonymized "AI-native SaaS company" versions.

• Your websiteHomepage: the page title is only "Corridor" and the meta description is "Secure AI Coding at the Source. Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before they're even written", while the H1 says "Security for Software That Builds Itself." The page shows 20+ customer logos (Etsy, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, LangChain, Qlik, Sublime Security, Pylon and more) and six named quotes, e.g. LangChain's Head of Security: Corridor "has stopped them from shipping critical infrastructure vulnerabilities".Source
• Your websiteSitemap (79 URLs): 29 learn pages, 27 blog and research posts, three product pages, event pages (RSA, Black Hat, re:Invent, roadshow), a Latio report page and a Shai Hulud checker; no customers or case-study pages and no "Corridor vs" pages.Source
• HiringFounding Product Marketing Manager (posted September 8, 2026): "help define how Corridor goes to market as we build a new category in AI security"; "Own competitive intelligence across the AI security market - tracking competitors, product capabilities, and launches, and turning those insights into clear messaging, competitor comparisons, and guidance for Sales"; "Create and ship ... website content and sales decks to case studies, messaging, launches"; "Test and iterate across positioning, messaging, launches, and demand generation."Source
• HiringCustomer success hiring: a Customer Success Lead to "build the foundation of Corridor's Customer Success function" and "Help turn successful customers into advocates, references, and expansion opportunities", and a Customer Success Manager (posted October 15, 2026) to "Monitor customer health, identify risks early" and drive "renewals, and opportunities to deepen adoption and expand usage".Source

Invite ten waitlist companies as paid design partners, and approach one app-builder platform (starting with the existing customer relationship) about an in-product security check for enterprise workspaces. Publish what the design partners find.

A waitlist is lost demand; design partners turn it into revenue, product feedback and a partner story.

• Product not ready for all builders

  Limit to the builders the product supports today.

• Your websiteBusiness teams page: "Product managers are prototyping in Lovable. Designers are shipping UI with v0. Business teams are building internal tools with Claude Code ... your security team has no visibility into it." The main button is "Join the Waitlist".Source
• Your websiteHomepage: the page title is only "Corridor" and the meta description is "Secure AI Coding at the Source. Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before they're even written", while the H1 says "Security for Software That Builds Itself." The page shows 20+ customer logos (Etsy, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, LangChain, Qlik, Sublime Security, Pylon and more) and six named quotes, e.g. LangChain's Head of Security: Corridor "has stopped them from shipping critical infrastructure vulnerabilities".Source
• News coverageSeries A (March 18, 2026): $25 million at a $200 million valuation led by Felicis, with Conviction, Lux, Datadog and others; partnerships with "Cursor and Factory, where Corridor runs natively inside the agents developers use"; Corridor secures "sales and marketing teams using AI to create internal apps" as well as developers.Source
• HiringFounding Head of Business Partnerships (posted October 15, 2026): "develop partnerships that create new routes to market, generate qualified pipeline, and drive revenue" across "cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, AI, and complementary B2B SaaS platforms"; "Establish repeatable partnership models, including referrals, co-selling, resellers, and strategic alliances."Source

Serve the logos and headshots as small modern images, lazy-load everything below the hero, and load the ad and visitor tags after the page is interactive. Re-test the homepage, pricing and demo pages.

A lighter page protects the score that real visitors already enjoy as the site grows, and the fix takes days, not weeks.

• Deferred tags miss conversions

  Check ad conversions for a week after.

• Google PageSpeedHomepage, mobile lab test (October 22, 2026): performance 56/100 (desktop 76), page weight 7.2 MB, about 2 MB of image savings and 606 KB of unused JavaScript. Real Chrome visitors pass Core Web Vitals (LCP 1.7 s, INP 137 ms, CLS 0.02).Source

Give each listing tracked links, a matching landing page and an owner. On AWS, pursue co-sell and private offers so enterprises can buy against committed spend. On Cursor, Vercel and Devin, propose joint webinars and a security section in their docs.

Listings that already exist are the cheapest partner channel to grow, and Marketplace buying removes procurement delays.

• Partners favor bigger vendors

  Bring them joint customers and data.

• Your websiteDistribution already in place: the homepage links Corridor listings on the AWS Marketplace, the Vercel Marketplace, Devin's MCP marketplace and the VS Code marketplace, with setup docs for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and Copilot; the blog announced the AWS Marketplace listing (December 1, 2025), Cursor hooks (December 22, 2025), Factory hooks (March 4, 2026), a Cursor plugin (May 20, 2026) and Codex (May 28, 2026).Source
• Partner researchCursor's hooks partners page lists Corridor under "Code security and best practices" next to Semgrep, Endor Labs, Snyk, 1Password, MintMCP, Oasis Security and Runlayer, each with an "Integrate ... with Cursor" link.See the research Source
• HiringFounding Head of Business Partnerships (posted October 15, 2026): "develop partnerships that create new routes to market, generate qualified pipeline, and drive revenue" across "cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, developer tools, AI, and complementary B2B SaaS platforms"; "Establish repeatable partnership models, including referrals, co-selling, resellers, and strategic alliances."Source

Define a 14-day POV: connect GitHub and one coding agent on day 1, set guardrails by day 3, and deliver a report on day 14 with PRs reviewed, findings caught before merge, false positives, agents discovered and estimated hours saved. Use the same template for every deal.

A forwardable report turns the champion's experience into evidence for the budget holder.

• Repos vary

  Keep the checkpoints flexible but the report fixed.

• HiringSales hiring: a second Sales Engineer to "Design and execute POVs inside customer environments, integrating Corridor with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD" and improve "demo environments, POV methodology, technical collateral, and objection handling"; an Account Executive who partners "with Customer Success to convert POVs into closed deals" and gives feedback on "best-fit customer profile, qualification, pricing, and deal structure".Source
• HiringCustomer success hiring: a Customer Success Lead to "build the foundation of Corridor's Customer Success function" and "Help turn successful customers into advocates, references, and expansion opportunities", and a Customer Success Manager (posted October 15, 2026) to "Monitor customer health, identify risks early" and drive "renewals, and opportunities to deepen adoption and expand usage".Source
• Your websiteHomepage: the page title is only "Corridor" and the meta description is "Secure AI Coding at the Source. Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before they're even written", while the H1 says "Security for Software That Builds Itself." The page shows 20+ customer logos (Etsy, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, LangChain, Qlik, Sublime Security, Pylon and more) and six named quotes, e.g. LangChain's Head of Security: Corridor "has stopped them from shipping critical infrastructure vulnerabilities".Source

Define a coverage score (developers reporting / developers, agents with hooks installed, repos with merge policy). Review it weekly, act when it drops, and propose expansion when a team passes 80%.

Seat-based pricing grows with coverage, and low coverage is the earliest churn warning.

• Privacy mode lowers counts

  Count reporting, not content.

• HiringCustomer success hiring: a Customer Success Lead to "build the foundation of Corridor's Customer Success function" and "Help turn successful customers into advocates, references, and expansion opportunities", and a Customer Success Manager (posted October 15, 2026) to "Monitor customer health, identify risks early" and drive "renewals, and opportunities to deepen adoption and expand usage".Source
• Your websitePricing: Pro $20 a month "For individual developers" (up to 5 projects, 100 PR reviews a month), Team $40 per developer a month (up to 20 projects), Enterprise "Contact Sales"; "Start with a free trial", buttons say "Get Started for Free"; the FAQ has one question, on how developers are counted.Source
• Your websiteHomepage: the page title is only "Corridor" and the meta description is "Secure AI Coding at the Source. Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before they're even written", while the H1 says "Security for Software That Builds Itself." The page shows 20+ customer logos (Etsy, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, LangChain, Qlik, Sublime Security, Pylon and more) and six named quotes, e.g. LangChain's Head of Security: Corridor "has stopped them from shipping critical infrastructure vulnerabilities".Source

Flag accounts with two or more Pro users on the same company domain, enrich them, and send the AE a note with usage. Offer a team trial that merges the Pro users and shows the security lead what they have been missing.

Bottom-up usage is the warmest enterprise lead, and the developers become internal champions.

• Developers want privacy

  Ask their permission before contacting their employer.

• Your websitePricing: Pro $20 a month "For individual developers" (up to 5 projects, 100 PR reviews a month), Team $40 per developer a month (up to 20 projects), Enterprise "Contact Sales"; "Start with a free trial", buttons say "Get Started for Free"; the FAQ has one question, on how developers are counted.Source
• HiringSales hiring: a second Sales Engineer to "Design and execute POVs inside customer environments, integrating Corridor with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD" and improve "demo environments, POV methodology, technical collateral, and objection handling"; an Account Executive who partners "with Customer Success to convert POVs into closed deals" and gives feedback on "best-fit customer profile, qualification, pricing, and deal structure".Source

Build one page per agent: the risks specific to it, how Corridor hooks in (plan, commit, PR), a 2-minute setup video and a trial button. Link each from the matching partner listing.

Agent-specific pages capture high-intent searches and give partners a page to link to.

• Thin pages

  Include real guardrail examples per agent.

• Your websiteDistribution already in place: the homepage links Corridor listings on the AWS Marketplace, the Vercel Marketplace, Devin's MCP marketplace and the VS Code marketplace, with setup docs for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and Copilot; the blog announced the AWS Marketplace listing (December 1, 2025), Cursor hooks (December 22, 2025), Factory hooks (March 4, 2026), a Cursor plugin (May 20, 2026) and Codex (May 28, 2026).Source
• Your websiteSitemap (79 URLs): 29 learn pages, 27 blog and research posts, three product pages, event pages (RSA, Black Hat, re:Invent, roadshow), a Latio report page and a Shai Hulud checker; no customers or case-study pages and no "Corridor vs" pages.Source
• Partner researchCursor's hooks partners page lists Corridor under "Code security and best practices" next to Semgrep, Endor Labs, Snyk, 1Password, MintMCP, Oasis Security and Runlayer, each with an "Integrate ... with Cursor" link.See the research Source

Record every turbo talk with the speaker's consent, publish them as a series, cut short clips for LinkedIn and X, and invite the online audience to the next city.

Peer talks from security leaders are credible content that costs nothing extra once the event is paid for.

• Speakers decline

  Offer audio-only or anonymized notes.

• Your websiteThird-party proof and field marketing: Latio's 2026 Application Security Market Report names Corridor "AI Code Innovator" (a gated 72-page report download); a roadshow page lists city events in New York, San Francisco and Seattle with "turbo talk" speaking slots.Source
• HiringFounding Head of Technical Partnerships (posted September 11, 2026), reporting to the VP of GTM: "establish Corridor as a trusted partner to the companies creating AI-powered software development platforms"; "Help define industry standards and best practices for measuring, governing, and securing agentic software development"; represent Corridor at "industry events, conferences ... podcasts".Source

Publish a free template pack: an AI coding policy, an approved-agent list, MCP server rules and a merge-policy example, each mapped to a Corridor guardrail. Gate the editable version with a light form.

A policy is the first task on the buyer's list, and owning the template places Corridor in the first conversation.

• Generic templates

  Include real examples by industry.

• Your websiteSitemap (79 URLs): 29 learn pages, 27 blog and research posts, three product pages, event pages (RSA, Black Hat, re:Invent, roadshow), a Latio report page and a Shai Hulud checker; no customers or case-study pages and no "Corridor vs" pages.Source
• Your website"Who's Driving? The Levels of Autonomy in Software Development" (September 4, 2026) argues that AI adoption statistics "are poorly defined" and sets out levels of autonomy, with "Corridor's Path to L4 and beyond".Source
• HiringFounding Product Marketing Manager (posted September 8, 2026): "help define how Corridor goes to market as we build a new category in AI security"; "Own competitive intelligence across the AI security market - tracking competitors, product capabilities, and launches, and turning those insights into clear messaging, competitor comparisons, and guidance for Sales"; "Create and ship ... website content and sales decks to case studies, messaging, launches"; "Test and iterate across positioning, messaging, launches, and demand generation."Source

Offer each platform partner a private security review of its default agent settings using Corridor's benchmarks, then publish a joint post on what changed. Start with Cursor and Factory, already partners.

Partners get a credible security story; Corridor gets distribution through their channels.

• Partners fear bad press

  Publish only what they fixed.

• HiringFounding Head of Technical Partnerships (posted September 11, 2026), reporting to the VP of GTM: "establish Corridor as a trusted partner to the companies creating AI-powered software development platforms"; "Help define industry standards and best practices for measuring, governing, and securing agentic software development"; represent Corridor at "industry events, conferences ... podcasts".Source
• Your websiteResearch cadence: "Measuring Opus 5's Proactive Security Capabilities" (August 3, 2026), "How Changing Models Cut False PR Approvals" (September 18), "Choosing What We Scan: Benchmarking More Decision Models" (October 16), plus secure-coding benchmark reviews (BaxBench, SecCodeBench).Source
• News coverageSeries A (March 18, 2026): $25 million at a $200 million valuation led by Felicis, with Conviction, Lux, Datadog and others; partnerships with "Cursor and Factory, where Corridor runs natively inside the agents developers use"; Corridor secures "sales and marketing teams using AI to create internal apps" as well as developers.Source
• Partner researchCursor's hooks partners page lists Corridor under "Code security and best practices" next to Semgrep, Endor Labs, Snyk, 1Password, MintMCP, Oasis Security and Runlayer, each with an "Integrate ... with Cursor" link.See the research Source

Publish a quarterly scorecard ranking major coding agents and models on secure-by-default behavior with a fixed method, open test set and changelog. Invite vendors to comment before release.

An independent reference earns press, links and AI citations, and makes Corridor the measure of the category.

• Method disputes

  Publish the method and test set.

• Your websiteResearch cadence: "Measuring Opus 5's Proactive Security Capabilities" (August 3, 2026), "How Changing Models Cut False PR Approvals" (September 18), "Choosing What We Scan: Benchmarking More Decision Models" (October 16), plus secure-coding benchmark reviews (BaxBench, SecCodeBench).Source
• HiringFounding Head of Technical Partnerships (posted September 11, 2026), reporting to the VP of GTM: "establish Corridor as a trusted partner to the companies creating AI-powered software development platforms"; "Help define industry standards and best practices for measuring, governing, and securing agentic software development"; represent Corridor at "industry events, conferences ... podcasts".Source
• Competitor researchRivals' own homepages now claim the AI coding ground: Snyk, "Snyk secures the code AI writes, the agents it runs, and the apps it builds"; Endor Labs, "Agentic Application Security Platform"; Backslash, "Secure AI Agents with Agentic AI Security"; Semgrep, "AI-assisted SAST, SCA and Secrets Detection"; Aikido, "Secure everything your devs build, ship & run."See the research Source

With customer consent and aggregation, publish yearly data: share of AI-authored PRs by tool, findings per 1,000 agent PRs, fix times, most common flaws, by level of autonomy.

Original data defines the category's numbers and gives sales a reason to call every security leader.

• Small sample

  Report ranges and sample size.

• Your website"Who's Driving? The Levels of Autonomy in Software Development" (September 4, 2026) argues that AI adoption statistics "are poorly defined" and sets out levels of autonomy, with "Corridor's Path to L4 and beyond".Source
• Your websiteHomepage: the page title is only "Corridor" and the meta description is "Secure AI Coding at the Source. Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before they're even written", while the H1 says "Security for Software That Builds Itself." The page shows 20+ customer logos (Etsy, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, LangChain, Qlik, Sublime Security, Pylon and more) and six named quotes, e.g. LangChain's Head of Security: Corridor "has stopped them from shipping critical infrastructure vulnerabilities".Source
• Your websiteResearch cadence: "Measuring Opus 5's Proactive Security Capabilities" (August 3, 2026), "How Changing Models Cut False PR Approvals" (September 18), "Choosing What We Scan: Benchmarking More Decision Models" (October 16), plus secure-coding benchmark reviews (BaxBench, SecCodeBench).Source

Publish an open specification for autonomy levels and the security controls expected at each, invite agent platforms and security vendors to co-author, and host it in a neutral repository.

The company that writes the standard shapes the buying criteria for the category.

• Seen as self-serving

  Neutral governance and outside co-authors.

• Your website"Who's Driving? The Levels of Autonomy in Software Development" (September 4, 2026) argues that AI adoption statistics "are poorly defined" and sets out levels of autonomy, with "Corridor's Path to L4 and beyond".Source
• HiringFounding Head of Technical Partnerships (posted September 11, 2026), reporting to the VP of GTM: "establish Corridor as a trusted partner to the companies creating AI-powered software development platforms"; "Help define industry standards and best practices for measuring, governing, and securing agentic software development"; represent Corridor at "industry events, conferences ... podcasts".Source
• Your websiteOn June 4, 2026 CEO Jack Cable testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection on "The AI Security Landscape"; the founders previously worked at CISA (Secure by Design).Source

Register in SAM.gov, list Corridor through a cloud marketplace that agencies use, and build a short public-sector page tied to Secure by Design. Start with one agency pilot.

Federal credibility already exists; registration turns it into a channel.

• Long cycles

  Keep it a small side track.

• Public recordsAn automated lookup of the US federal SAM.gov entity register (October 22, 2026) returned no registration for Corridor Security Inc.Source
• Your websiteOn June 4, 2026 CEO Jack Cable testified before the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection on "The AI Security Landscape"; the founders previously worked at CISA (Secure by Design).Source
• Your websiteDistribution already in place: the homepage links Corridor listings on the AWS Marketplace, the Vercel Marketplace, Devin's MCP marketplace and the VS Code marketplace, with setup docs for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and Copilot; the blog announced the AWS Marketplace listing (December 1, 2025), Cursor hooks (December 22, 2025), Factory hooks (March 4, 2026), a Cursor plugin (May 20, 2026) and Codex (May 28, 2026).Source

Make it a program: a reusable checker page, a 24-hour target to publish one after each major incident, and a follow-up showing how Corridor guardrails would block the pattern.

Free tools at the moment of fear earn links, sign-ups and trust.

• Incomplete lists

  State limits clearly, as the current page does.

• Your websiteFree tool: the Shai Hulud 2.0 Detector checks an uploaded package.json or package-lock.json against packages affected by the npm supply-chain attack, entirely in the browser.Source
• Your websiteResearch cadence: "Measuring Opus 5's Proactive Security Capabilities" (August 3, 2026), "How Changing Models Cut False PR Approvals" (September 18), "Choosing What We Scan: Benchmarking More Decision Models" (October 16), plus secure-coding benchmark reviews (BaxBench, SecCodeBench).Source

Send a monthly digest: one benchmark finding, one guardrail of the month, one customer tip and an event invite. Track replies and demos.

A regular digest keeps prospects warm between sales touches at almost no cost.

• Low opens

  Keep it short.

• Your websiteResearch cadence: "Measuring Opus 5's Proactive Security Capabilities" (August 3, 2026), "How Changing Models Cut False PR Approvals" (September 18), "Choosing What We Scan: Benchmarking More Decision Models" (October 16), plus secure-coding benchmark reviews (BaxBench, SecCodeBench).Source
• Your websiteSitemap (79 URLs): 29 learn pages, 27 blog and research posts, three product pages, event pages (RSA, Black Hat, re:Invent, roadshow), a Latio report page and a Shai Hulud checker; no customers or case-study pages and no "Corridor vs" pages.Source

Build a hosted sandbox repository where a visitor prompts an agent to add an endpoint and sees Corridor's guardrails, pre-commit block and fix. Offer a trial at the end.

Seeing the block happen is more convincing than a screenshot, and it qualifies leads by interest.

• Abuse of sandbox

  Rate limits and fixed prompts.

• Your websiteHomepage: the page title is only "Corridor" and the meta description is "Secure AI Coding at the Source. Corridor accelerates AI coding by preventing security flaws before they're even written", while the H1 says "Security for Software That Builds Itself." The page shows 20+ customer logos (Etsy, ElevenLabs, Lovable, Mercor, LangChain, Qlik, Sublime Security, Pylon and more) and six named quotes, e.g. LangChain's Head of Security: Corridor "has stopped them from shipping critical infrastructure vulnerabilities".Source
• HiringSales hiring: a second Sales Engineer to "Design and execute POVs inside customer environments, integrating Corridor with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, CI/CD" and improve "demo environments, POV methodology, technical collateral, and objection handling"; an Account Executive who partners "with Customer Success to convert POVs into closed deals" and gives feedback on "best-fit customer profile, qualification, pricing, and deal structure".Source
• Your websiteDistribution already in place: the homepage links Corridor listings on the AWS Marketplace, the Vercel Marketplace, Devin's MCP marketplace and the VS Code marketplace, with setup docs for Cursor, Claude Code, Codex and Copilot; the blog announced the AWS Marketplace listing (December 1, 2025), Cursor hooks (December 22, 2025), Factory hooks (March 4, 2026), a Cursor plugin (May 20, 2026) and Codex (May 28, 2026).Source