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White Circle growth playbook

Diagnosis

White Circle has funding ($70M), scale (over 100 million API calls a month), named customers and a research brand, and it is hiring its first go-to-market team: a Content Lead, a GTM engineer, a founding AE, a DevRel lead, designers and a production manager.

The site does not yet support that team. Eight solution pages have no internal links, there is no blog, there is one case study, the comparison names no vendors and there is no way to try the product without logging in.

This playbook links and expands the solution pages first, adds proof and named comparisons, then builds templates, a playground, integrations, events and outbound, with big bets on platform partners, a public benchmark and policy packs.

Growth Score

7/10

Biggest Opportunity

Turn the research reputation and the existing solution pages into a discoverable, hands-on path from search, GitHub and events to a demo.

Biggest Risk

A crowded category (Lakera, Guardrails AI, HiddenLayer, Arthur and model providers' own safety tools) where buyers may not yet see why a separate control layer is needed.

01

Start here

The three moves to make first. Each one is written up in full below.

  1. 1

    Link the eight solution pages: prompt injection, hallucination detection and data leak prevention are reachable only through the sitemap

    Add a Solutions column to the footer today.

    High impact First result in 1 month
  2. 2

    A second case study from the neobanks, even if anonymized

    Ask the neobank customers which would agree to a story.

    High impact First result in 1 month
  3. 3

    Name the vendors on the comparison page and add one page per rival

    Pick the two rivals that appear most in deals.

    High impact First result in 1 month

02

Your idea portfolio

21 ideas, grouped by when to run them. Open any idea for how to run it: the steps, who to approach, copy you can use, and how to measure it.

  • 7 ideas are marked Unexpected: plays you are unlikely to have tried.

    1 of these are things Programmable can build and run for you.

Every idea placed by the effort it takes against the impact it could have. Quick wins sit top left; select a number to open that idea. The filters below narrow the list by status, timing, category and what Programmable can build.

Effort vs impactEach number is an idea. Select one to open it.
Impact →
Quick wins · 3Big bets · 11Fill-ins · 5Reconsider · 2
Effort →

Showing 21 of 21 ideas

This week 6

Quick wins with a clear first action.

  • 01

    White Circle is hiring a Content Lead to publish on its own website and a GTM engineer with programmatic SEO and AEO experience. The site already has eight solution pages under /lp/, covering prompt injection protection, AI hallucination detection, data leak prevention, chatbot and agentic security, a content moderation API, features and a comparison. Nothing on the site links to them. The homepage, the navigation (whose Features item only scrolls the homepage) and the footer skip them, and they do not link to each other, so the pages built for the searches buyers run have no internal links.

    High impactLow effort First result in 1 month Content Lead

    First action

    Add a Solutions column to the footer today.

    How to measure it

    Organic sessions on /lp/ pages

    Now
    –
    Target
    3x baseline
    By
    90 days

    Steps

    1. 1

      Baseline

      Search Console impressions and clicks for the eight pages.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 hour

    2. 2

      Add navigation

      Solutions menu and footer column.

      Design Engineer 1 day

    3. 3

      Cross-link

      Each page to two related pages, research and the case study.

      Web Designer (Communication) 2 days

    4. 4

      Update whitecircle.md

      Solution pages in the Markdown copy.

      Design Engineer 1 hour

    5. 5

      Request indexing

      Resubmit the sitemap and the eight pages.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 hour

    6. 6

      Plan articles

      One article per solution page, linked both ways.

      Content Lead 1 week

    7. 7

      Track

      Impressions, clicks and demo requests by page.

      Founding GTM Engineer weekly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    $0
    Owner
    Content Lead

    Smallest test

    Add the footer links today and compare impressions after four weeks.

    Why it works

    Add a "Solutions" menu and footer column that lists all eight pages, link each solution page to the two closest ones, to the matching research post and to the Lovable case study, and add the pages to the Markdown copy at whitecircle.md. Then make /lp/ the base for the Content Lead's articles: every new article links to one solution page, and every solution page links to the articles behind it.

    Internal links tell search engines and AI assistants which pages matter. They also give a buyer who lands on one page a path to the others. The pages already exist, so this is mostly a navigation change.

    Ready to use

    ChecklistSolution page linking list

    [ ] Solutions menu in the header
    [ ] Footer column with all eight /lp/ pages
    [ ] Each /lp/ page links to two related pages
    [ ] Each /lp/ page links to a research post and the Lovable case study
    [ ] whitecircle.md lists the solution pages
    [ ] Sitemap resubmitted
    [ ] One article planned per solution page

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Navigation gets crowded

      Group the eight pages under one Solutions menu.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteSitemap (24 URLs, checked October 22, 2026): eight solution pages under /lp/ (features, compare, agentic-security, chatbot-security, data-leak-prevention, ai-hallucination-detection, content-moderation-api, prompt-injection-protection), seven research pages and one case study. No /lp/ page is linked from the homepage, the navigation (its "Features" item scrolls the homepage) or the footer, and the /lp/ pages do not link to each other. There is no blog (/blog returns 404).Source
    • HiringContent Lead (posted September 12, 2026, NY): "turn complex AI safety topics into clear, compelling stories that build trust, shape White Circle's voice, and drive product adoption"; "Turn customer conversations into case studies, customer stories, and reference materials"; "Write and publish long-form content across Medium, Substack, LinkedIn, X, and our website"; "Help founders maintain a consistent public voice".Source
    • HiringFounding GTM Engineer (posted July 1, 2026, London): automate outbound and inbound, "Design and deploy AI agents across the GTM motion (e.g., account research, pre-call intelligence, personalised outreach)", "Experience in programmatic SEO and AEO", and "identify the highest-converting early segments". The post says White Circle is "at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks".Source
    • Your websiteHomepage: "Control user and model behavior in real time" with Test, Control, Analyze and Improve; one customer quote, from Lovable's CISO; named investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry and ARC Prize; "Adapt to every region: Apply different policies based on a user's location or jurisdiction"; SOC 2 and HIPAA badges; "Get Started" opens a login page and "Request a Demo" a contact form; no pricing page (/pricing returns 404); a Markdown copy of the site at whitecircle.md "If you're an LLM or agent".Source
  • 02

    The GTM engineer post says White Circle has signed "multiple neobanks", but the site has one case study (Lovable) and one customer quote. Financial services buyers want proof from a regulated peer.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 month Content Lead

    First action

    Ask the neobank customers which would agree to a story.

    How to measure it

    Demos from financial services

    Now
    –
    Target
    +50%
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Ask customers

      Permission and format.

      Founding Account Executive 1 week

    2. 2

      Interview

      Security and product leads.

      Content Lead 1 week

    3. 3

      Write

      Problem, integration, results.

      Content Lead 1 week

    4. 4

      Approve

      Customer review.

      Founding Account Executive 2 weeks

    5. 5

      Publish

      With a financial services page.

      Web Designer (Communication) 1 week

    6. 6

      Use in deals

      Proposals and outreach.

      Founding Account Executive ongoing

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Content Lead

    Smallest test

    Publish a short anonymized story first.

    Why it works

    Interview one neobank customer, publish a case study (named if allowed, anonymized if not) on the problem, integration, policies and results, and build a "for financial services" page around it.

    Peer proof in a regulated industry shortens security and procurement reviews for the next bank.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Customer declines naming

      Publish anonymized with specifics.

    Evidence

    • HiringFounding GTM Engineer (posted July 1, 2026, London): automate outbound and inbound, "Design and deploy AI agents across the GTM motion (e.g., account research, pre-call intelligence, personalised outreach)", "Experience in programmatic SEO and AEO", and "identify the highest-converting early segments". The post says White Circle is "at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks".Source
    • HiringContent Lead (posted September 12, 2026, NY): "turn complex AI safety topics into clear, compelling stories that build trust, shape White Circle's voice, and drive product adoption"; "Turn customer conversations into case studies, customer stories, and reference materials"; "Write and publish long-form content across Medium, Substack, LinkedIn, X, and our website"; "Help founders maintain a consistent public voice".Source
    • Your websiteLovable case study (July 15, 2026): White Circle is "a supervision layer in Lovable's pipeline", model-agnostic; Lovable "sends every new event in a session to a single API endpoint"; coverage includes user supervision, model supervision and abuse and anomaly detection across sessions.Source
    • HiringFounding Account Executive (posted August 24, 2026, NY): "close six-figure deals", "navigate technical buying committees", and "help sharpen the best-fit customer profile, narrative, proposals, ROI cases, mutual action plans, pricing"; "We have great traction, but the sales motion is not fully figured out"; pipeline from "referral networks" and conferences.Source
  • 03

    The /lp/compare page compares White Circle with "Typical vendors" and names none. Buyers search by name (Lakera, Guardrails AI, HiddenLayer, Arthur), and the AE is asked to sharpen narrative and ROI cases.

    High impactLow effort First result in 1 month Founding Account Executive

    First action

    Pick the two rivals that appear most in deals.

    How to measure it

    Comparison-page demos

    Now
    –
    Target
    20 a month
    By
    90 days

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick rivals

      From deal notes.

      Founding Account Executive 1 day

    2. 2

      Gather facts

      Public docs and pricing.

      Content Lead 1 week

    3. 3

      Write pages

      Fair, dated tables.

      Content Lead 1 week

    4. 4

      Review

      Accuracy and trademarks.

      Legal 3 days

    5. 5

      Publish

      Linked from /lp/compare.

      Web Designer (Communication) 2 days

    6. 6

      Refresh

      Quarterly.

      Content Lead quarterly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Founding Account Executive

    Smallest test

    Publish one named comparison.

    Why it works

    Keep the general table and add fair, dated pages per competitor: approach, policy model, tool-call and agent coverage, latency, deployment and trade-offs, sourced from each vendor's public material and reviewed for accuracy.

    Named comparisons capture high-intent searches and help champions explain the choice internally.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Out-of-date claims

      Date every page and cite sources.

    Evidence

    • Your website/lp/compare, "White Circle vs. the Competition": a table against "Typical vendors" without naming any, covering approach, latency ("50-100 ms end-to-end"), inspection of "tool arguments, tool outputs, agent traces, and fetched content", "Fully custom policies", data residency, multilingual support and an honest "Main trade-off" row.Source
    • Competitor researchRivals' own sites: Lakera, "The AI-Native Security Platform to Accelerate GenAI"; Guardrails AI, "The AI Reliability Platform"; HiddenLayer, "Total AI Security"; Arthur, "AI governance for everyone", uniting "security, finance, and the teams shipping AI on one control plane".Source
    • HiringFounding Account Executive (posted August 24, 2026, NY): "close six-figure deals", "navigate technical buying committees", and "help sharpen the best-fit customer profile, narrative, proposals, ROI cases, mutual action plans, pricing"; "We have great traction, but the sales motion is not fully figured out"; pipeline from "referral networks" and conferences.Source
  • 04

    White Circle publishes research (KillBench, RISE, CircleGuardBench, image model attacks), and research posts end with the same generic call to action. A reader of a red-teaming post is a candidate for red-teaming, not a general demo.

    High impactLow effort First result in 1 month DevRel Lead

    First action

    Write the call to action for CircleGuardBench.

    How to measure it

    Research-sourced demos

    Now
    –
    Target
    15 a month
    By
    90 days

    Steps

    1. 1

      Map posts

      Post to product.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 1 day

    2. 2

      Write calls to action

      One per post.

      Content Lead 2 days

    3. 3

      Build blocks

      Reusable component.

      Design Engineer 2 days

    4. 4

      Link

      To solution pages.

      Web Designer (Communication) 1 day

    5. 5

      Track

      Clicks and demos.

      Founding GTM Engineer weekly

    6. 6

      Iterate

      Monthly.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) monthly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    $0
    Owner
    DevRel Lead (Developer Relations)

    Smallest test

    Change the CircleGuardBench call to action.

    Why it works

    Give each post a specific call to action: run the benchmark on your own model, request a red-team report, try the guardrail on your policies. Link each to the matching solution page.

    Research readers are technical evaluators; a relevant next step turns attention into pipeline.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Feels salesy to researchers

      Offer tools and data, not just demos.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteResearch page: KillBench ("1,350,000+ experiments", 15 models), RISE red-teaming for text-to-image models, "Breaking Frontier Image Models Without Frontier AI", Halo open-source distributed training, CircleGuardBench ("Measuring the real-world performance of AI guardrails"), GLM-4.7-Flash-Coder ("from 33.15% to 41.65% on SWE-rebench-V2, at 14% lower inference cost"), and three posts marked "Coming soon". Research posts end with the generic sitewide call to action.Source
    • Your websiteSitemap (24 URLs, checked October 22, 2026): eight solution pages under /lp/ (features, compare, agentic-security, chatbot-security, data-leak-prevention, ai-hallucination-detection, content-moderation-api, prompt-injection-protection), seven research pages and one case study. No /lp/ page is linked from the homepage, the navigation (its "Features" item scrolls the homepage) or the footer, and the /lp/ pages do not link to each other. There is no blog (/blog returns 404).Source
    • HiringDevRel Lead (posted September 30, 2026): "make White Circle the AI safety platform engineers and researchers actually want to build with"; "Lead technical launches for open-source releases and developer tools, like our Halo framework"; tutorials and demos; "hackathons, meetups, and technical events, mainly in SF and New York"; partnerships with AI labs and dev tools companies; track "signups, repo stars, views, event turnout".Source
  • 05

    White Circle shows SOC 2 and HIPAA badges, has a Vanta trust center and a DPA, and sells six-figure deals through technical buying committees. Security review is usually the longest step.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 month Founding Account Executive

    First action

    List the ten questions buyers asked most.

    How to measure it

    Median security review time

    Now
    –
    Target
    -30%
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Collect questions

      Recent deals.

      Founding Account Executive 2 days

    2. 2

      Write answers

      With engineering.

      Head of Security 1 week

    3. 3

      Architecture diagram

      Data flow.

      Design Engineer 3 days

    4. 4

      Publish

      Trust center request.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 day

    5. 5

      Send

      With first meetings.

      Founding Account Executive ongoing

    6. 6

      Update

      Quarterly.

      Head of Security quarterly

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Founding Account Executive

    Smallest test

    Send a draft pack to the next prospect.

    Why it works

    Assemble a review pack (architecture, data flow, data residency options, sub-processors, uptime history, standard questionnaire answers) behind a simple request on the trust center, and send it with every first meeting.

    Answering security questions early removes weeks from enterprise cycles.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Sensitive detail exposed

      Share the detailed pack under NDA only.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteHomepage: "Control user and model behavior in real time" with Test, Control, Analyze and Improve; one customer quote, from Lovable's CISO; named investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry and ARC Prize; "Adapt to every region: Apply different policies based on a user's location or jurisdiction"; SOC 2 and HIPAA badges; "Get Started" opens a login page and "Request a Demo" a contact form; no pricing page (/pricing returns 404); a Markdown copy of the site at whitecircle.md "If you're an LLM or agent".Source
    • GitHubGitHub organisation: halo (834 stars, "open-source framework built by White Circle for training large language and multimodal models", pushed October 20, 2026) and rise (136 stars); a Hugging Face organisation; documentation at docs.whitecircle.com, a public status page and a Vanta trust center.Source
    • HiringFounding Account Executive (posted August 24, 2026, NY): "close six-figure deals", "navigate technical buying committees", and "help sharpen the best-fit customer profile, narrative, proposals, ROI cases, mutual action plans, pricing"; "We have great traction, but the sales motion is not fully figured out"; pipeline from "referral networks" and conferences.Source
    • Your website/lp/prompt-injection-protection: "Injection arrives through web fetch, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and user input. Every vector is checked"; per-user strikes and auto-enforcement; "99.99 % Our API uptime", "5 mins Time to integrate our API", "150+ Supported languages", "Unlimited custom policies"; a "Book a technical demo" form.Source
  • 06

    Every job post links to whitecircle.ai, which redirects to whitecircle.com. A redirect works, but every profile, post and press mention that names the old domain splits the brand and adds a hop.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 week Talent Lead

    First action

    Update the job board template.

    How to measure it

    Owned profiles using whitecircle.com

    Now
    –
    Target
    100%
    By
    2 weeks

    Steps

    1. 1

      Job template

      Company description link.

      Talent Lead 1 hour

    2. 2

      Profiles

      Social, GitHub, Hugging Face.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 1 day

    3. 3

      Signatures

      Team email.

      Talent Lead 1 day

    4. 4

      Press kit

      Domain in boilerplate.

      Content Lead 1 day

    5. 5

      Keep redirect

      Permanent 301.

      Design Engineer 1 hour

    6. 6

      Check

      Quarterly link audit.

      Founding GTM Engineer quarterly

    First result
    1 week
    Cost
    $0
    Owner
    Talent Lead

    Smallest test

    Fix the job post template today.

    Why it works

    Update job posts, social profiles, GitHub, Hugging Face and email signatures to whitecircle.com, and keep the redirect permanent.

    One domain everywhere builds recognition and keeps link authority on the main site.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Old links in the wild

      Keep the redirect indefinitely.

    Evidence

    • HiringCompany description in every post: the platform is built on "policies - simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn't do", tested, enforced and improved automatically; a Series A brings total funding to "$70M"; "We process over one hundred million API calls every month"; "We fine-tune and train our own LLMs". The posts link to whitecircle.ai, which redirects (301) to whitecircle.com.Source
    • GitHubGitHub organisation: halo (834 stars, "open-source framework built by White Circle for training large language and multimodal models", pushed October 20, 2026) and rise (136 stars); a Hugging Face organisation; documentation at docs.whitecircle.com, a public status page and a Vanta trust center.Source

This quarter 9

The core plays for the next three months.

  • 07

    White Circle's product is built on natural-language policies, and the GTM engineer should know programmatic SEO. Teams search for how to stop specific AI failures in their industry.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Founding GTM Engineer

    First action

    Write ten templates for fintech.

    How to measure it

    Template-page sign-ups

    Now
    –
    Target
    100 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick taxonomy

      Industries and risks.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 week

    2. 2

      Write templates

      First 30.

      Content Lead 1 month

    3. 3

      Review

      Research team accuracy.

      Research Engineer (Evals) 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Build pages

      Programmatic template.

      Design Engineer 2 weeks

    5. 5

      Link

      From solution pages.

      Web Designer (Communication) 1 week

    6. 6

      Measure

      Visits and trials.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Founding GTM Engineer

    Smallest test

    Publish ten fintech templates.

    Why it works

    Publish policy templates by industry (fintech, health, kids' apps, developer tools) and risk (prompt injection, PII, self-harm, refunds), each with the plain-language rule, examples and a one-click "try this policy" link.

    Templates show the product's core idea in seconds and create many useful, searchable pages from one format.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Thin pages

      Each template has real examples.

    Evidence

    • HiringCompany description in every post: the platform is built on "policies - simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn't do", tested, enforced and improved automatically; a Series A brings total funding to "$70M"; "We process over one hundred million API calls every month"; "We fine-tune and train our own LLMs". The posts link to whitecircle.ai, which redirects (301) to whitecircle.com.Source
    • HiringFounding GTM Engineer (posted July 1, 2026, London): automate outbound and inbound, "Design and deploy AI agents across the GTM motion (e.g., account research, pre-call intelligence, personalised outreach)", "Experience in programmatic SEO and AEO", and "identify the highest-converting early segments". The post says White Circle is "at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks".Source
    • Your website/lp/prompt-injection-protection: "Injection arrives through web fetch, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and user input. Every vector is checked"; per-user strikes and auto-enforcement; "99.99 % Our API uptime", "5 mins Time to integrate our API", "150+ Supported languages", "Unlimited custom policies"; a "Book a technical demo" form.Source
  • 08

    "Get Started" opens a login, and the only other path is a demo request. Engineers evaluate guardrails by trying them, and the DevRel lead is measured on signups.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 2 quarters Design Engineer

    First action

    Prototype with three built-in policies.

    How to measure it

    Playground sign-ups

    Now
    –
    Target
    300 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Scope

      Policies and sample attacks.

      Design Engineer 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Build

      Rate-limited sandbox.

      Design Engineer 1 quarter

    3. 3

      Abuse controls

      Limits and monitoring.

      Platform Engineer 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Launch

      With DevRel.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 1 week

    5. 5

      Route leads

      High-intent tests to sales.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 week

    6. 6

      Measure

      Sign-ups and pipeline.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    First result
    2 quarters
    Cost
    Compute costs
    Owner
    Design Engineer

    Smallest test

    Share a private playground with ten developers.

    Why it works

    Build a rate-limited playground where visitors write a policy, run it on sample attacks and see decisions and latency, then sign up to use their own data.

    Hands-on proof is how developers adopt tools, and it qualifies leads by what they tested.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Abuse of the free sandbox

      Rate limits and sign-up for heavy use.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteHomepage: "Control user and model behavior in real time" with Test, Control, Analyze and Improve; one customer quote, from Lovable's CISO; named investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry and ARC Prize; "Adapt to every region: Apply different policies based on a user's location or jurisdiction"; SOC 2 and HIPAA badges; "Get Started" opens a login page and "Request a Demo" a contact form; no pricing page (/pricing returns 404); a Markdown copy of the site at whitecircle.md "If you're an LLM or agent".Source
    • HiringDevRel Lead (posted September 30, 2026): "make White Circle the AI safety platform engineers and researchers actually want to build with"; "Lead technical launches for open-source releases and developer tools, like our Halo framework"; tutorials and demos; "hackathons, meetups, and technical events, mainly in SF and New York"; partnerships with AI labs and dev tools companies; track "signups, repo stars, views, event turnout".Source
    • Your website/lp/prompt-injection-protection: "Injection arrives through web fetch, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and user input. Every vector is checked"; per-user strikes and auto-enforcement; "99.99 % Our API uptime", "5 mins Time to integrate our API", "150+ Supported languages", "Unlimited custom policies"; a "Book a technical demo" form.Source
  • 09

    White Circle checks tool calls, MCP servers and RAG inputs, and the DevRel lead will publish tutorials. Developers search "guardrails for [framework]".

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter DevRel Lead

    First action

    Pick the three frameworks customers use most.

    How to measure it

    Integration-page sign-ups

    Now
    –
    Target
    80 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick frameworks

      From customer data.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 1 week

    2. 2

      Build samples

      Working repos.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 1 month

    3. 3

      Write guides

      Step by step.

      Content Lead 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Publish

      Docs and site.

      Design Engineer 1 week

    5. 5

      Promote

      X, LinkedIn, communities.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 2 weeks

    6. 6

      Maintain

      Update with releases.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    DevRel Lead (Developer Relations)

    Smallest test

    Publish one integration guide.

    Why it works

    Publish step-by-step integration pages for the most used agent frameworks and MCP, each with working code, latency notes and a repo, linked from docs and the solution pages.

    Integration pages meet developers at the moment they are building and rank for specific searches.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Framework changes break samples

      Test samples in CI.

    Evidence

    • Your website/lp/prompt-injection-protection: "Injection arrives through web fetch, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and user input. Every vector is checked"; per-user strikes and auto-enforcement; "99.99 % Our API uptime", "5 mins Time to integrate our API", "150+ Supported languages", "Unlimited custom policies"; a "Book a technical demo" form.Source
    • HiringDevRel Lead (posted September 30, 2026): "make White Circle the AI safety platform engineers and researchers actually want to build with"; "Lead technical launches for open-source releases and developer tools, like our Halo framework"; tutorials and demos; "hackathons, meetups, and technical events, mainly in SF and New York"; partnerships with AI labs and dev tools companies; track "signups, repo stars, views, event turnout".Source
    • GitHubGitHub organisation: halo (834 stars, "open-source framework built by White Circle for training large language and multimodal models", pushed October 20, 2026) and rise (136 stars); a Hugging Face organisation; documentation at docs.whitecircle.com, a public status page and a Vanta trust center.Source
  • 10

    The DevRel lead will run hackathons and meetups in SF and New York, and White Circle's research is about how AI fails. A challenge to bypass a guarded agent is a natural event.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter DevRel Lead

    First action

    Book the first venue and set the rules.

    How to measure it

    Sign-ups per event

    Now
    –
    Target
    75
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Design challenge

      Rules and scoring.

      Research Engineer (Evals) 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Book venue

      SF or NY.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 2 weeks

    3. 3

      Merch and prizes

      Custom items.

      Production Manager 1 month

    4. 4

      Run

      Monthly.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) monthly

    5. 5

      Publish findings

      Anonymized write-up.

      Content Lead monthly

    6. 6

      Follow up

      Sign-ups and hiring.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Event costs
    Owner
    DevRel Lead (Developer Relations)

    Smallest test

    Run an online challenge first.

    Why it works

    Run a monthly challenge: attendees try to jailbreak a guarded agent, winners get prizes and credit, and every successful attack (with consent) improves the models. Publish anonymized findings.

    It attracts exactly the engineers who care about AI safety and produces content and training data.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Attacks publicized irresponsibly

      Disclose findings only after fixes.

    Evidence

    • HiringDevRel Lead (posted September 30, 2026): "make White Circle the AI safety platform engineers and researchers actually want to build with"; "Lead technical launches for open-source releases and developer tools, like our Halo framework"; tutorials and demos; "hackathons, meetups, and technical events, mainly in SF and New York"; partnerships with AI labs and dev tools companies; track "signups, repo stars, views, event turnout".Source
    • Your websiteResearch page: KillBench ("1,350,000+ experiments", 15 models), RISE red-teaming for text-to-image models, "Breaking Frontier Image Models Without Frontier AI", Halo open-source distributed training, CircleGuardBench ("Measuring the real-world performance of AI guardrails"), GLM-4.7-Flash-Coder ("from 33.15% to 41.65% on SWE-rebench-V2, at 14% lower inference cost"), and three posts marked "Coming soon". Research posts end with the generic sitewide call to action.Source
    • HiringCreative and product hiring: a Web Designer (Communication) (August 25, 2026) and a Communications Designer (October 5, 2026) to "Design landing pages from the first idea to polished, responsive final designs" and visuals for launches and events; a Production Manager (September 14, 2026) for custom merch, event materials and objects "people actually want to keep"; a Design Engineer (October 22, 2026) to own the product design system.Source
  • 11

    The GTM engineer is asked to build AI agents for account research and to find the highest-converting segments. Companies hiring AI engineers or launching chatbots and agents are the ones that need guardrails now.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Founding GTM Engineer

    First action

    Define five signals and test them on 100 accounts.

    How to measure it

    Signal-sourced meetings

    Now
    –
    Target
    20 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Define signals

      Five to start.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 week

    2. 2

      Build enrichment

      Automated research.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 month

    3. 3

      Score segments

      From early wins.

      Founding GTM Engineer 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Draft outreach

      Signal-specific.

      Founding GTM Engineer 2 weeks

    5. 5

      Review and send

      AE approval.

      Founding Account Executive weekly

    6. 6

      Measure

      Meetings by signal.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Tooling costs
    Owner
    Founding GTM Engineer

    Smallest test

    Run one signal on 100 accounts.

    Why it works

    Build an enrichment flow that spots signals (AI product launches, agent job posts, public chatbots, AI safety incidents in the industry), scores accounts by segment and drafts outreach that references the signal, for the AE to review.

    Timely, specific outreach outperforms generic sequences, especially for a new category.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Creepy personalization

      Use only public, relevant signals.

    Evidence

    • HiringFounding GTM Engineer (posted July 1, 2026, London): automate outbound and inbound, "Design and deploy AI agents across the GTM motion (e.g., account research, pre-call intelligence, personalised outreach)", "Experience in programmatic SEO and AEO", and "identify the highest-converting early segments". The post says White Circle is "at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks".Source
    • HiringFounding Account Executive (posted August 24, 2026, NY): "close six-figure deals", "navigate technical buying committees", and "help sharpen the best-fit customer profile, narrative, proposals, ROI cases, mutual action plans, pricing"; "We have great traction, but the sales motion is not fully figured out"; pipeline from "referral networks" and conferences.Source
    • Your websiteLovable case study (July 15, 2026): White Circle is "a supervision layer in Lovable's pipeline", model-agnostic; Lovable "sends every new event in a session to a single API endpoint"; coverage includes user supervision, model supervision and abuse and anomaly detection across sessions.Source
  • 12

    The AE is asked to build ROI cases and pricing for six-figure deals. Buyers need to justify a new budget line for AI control.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Founding Account Executive

    First action

    Build the model from the Lovable deployment.

    How to measure it

    Proposal win rate

    Now
    –
    Target
    +15%
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick inputs

      From recent deals.

      Founding Account Executive 1 week

    2. 2

      Build model

      Spreadsheet first.

      Founding Account Executive 1 week

    3. 3

      Validate

      With two customers.

      Founding Account Executive 2 weeks

    4. 4

      Add to proposals

      Standard section.

      Founding Account Executive ongoing

    5. 5

      Web version

      Simple calculator.

      Design Engineer 1 month

    6. 6

      Review

      Quarterly.

      Founding Account Executive quarterly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Founding Account Executive

    Smallest test

    Use the model in the next proposal.

    Why it works

    Build an ROI model with the customer's own inputs (AI interactions, manual review time, incident cost, engineering time to build guardrails in house) and include it in every proposal. Publish a simple version on the site.

    A shared business case helps champions win budget and makes pricing discussions concrete.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Inflated estimates

      Use customer data and ranges.

    Evidence

    • HiringFounding Account Executive (posted August 24, 2026, NY): "close six-figure deals", "navigate technical buying committees", and "help sharpen the best-fit customer profile, narrative, proposals, ROI cases, mutual action plans, pricing"; "We have great traction, but the sales motion is not fully figured out"; pipeline from "referral networks" and conferences.Source
    • HiringCompany description in every post: the platform is built on "policies - simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn't do", tested, enforced and improved automatically; a Series A brings total funding to "$70M"; "We process over one hundred million API calls every month"; "We fine-tune and train our own LLMs". The posts link to whitecircle.ai, which redirects (301) to whitecircle.com.Source
    • Your websiteLovable case study (July 15, 2026): White Circle is "a supervision layer in Lovable's pipeline", model-agnostic; Lovable "sends every new event in a session to a single API endpoint"; coverage includes user supervision, model supervision and abuse and anomaly detection across sessions.Source
  • 13

    The Content Lead will help founders keep a consistent public voice. Enterprise buyers and AI researchers follow people more than company pages.

    High impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Content Lead

    First action

    Pick the three themes for each founder.

    How to measure it

    Founder-sourced demos

    Now
    –
    Target
    10 a month
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Set themes

      Three each.

      Content Lead 1 week

    2. 2

      Calendar

      Twice weekly.

      Content Lead 1 week

    3. 3

      Draft

      From research and customers.

      Content Lead weekly

    4. 4

      Publish

      LinkedIn and X.

      Co-founder and CEO weekly

    5. 5

      Link

      To site pages.

      Content Lead weekly

    6. 6

      Measure

      Demos and followers.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Content Lead

    Smallest test

    Publish four posts this month.

    Why it works

    Agree three themes per founder, publish twice a week, turn research and customer lessons into posts, and link each to a page on the site. Track profile visits and inbound demos.

    Founder-led content builds trust in a new category faster than ads.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Inconsistent posting

      Batch drafts monthly.

    Evidence

    • HiringContent Lead (posted September 12, 2026, NY): "turn complex AI safety topics into clear, compelling stories that build trust, shape White Circle's voice, and drive product adoption"; "Turn customer conversations into case studies, customer stories, and reference materials"; "Write and publish long-form content across Medium, Substack, LinkedIn, X, and our website"; "Help founders maintain a consistent public voice".Source
    • Your websiteResearch page: KillBench ("1,350,000+ experiments", 15 models), RISE red-teaming for text-to-image models, "Breaking Frontier Image Models Without Frontier AI", Halo open-source distributed training, CircleGuardBench ("Measuring the real-world performance of AI guardrails"), GLM-4.7-Flash-Coder ("from 33.15% to 41.65% on SWE-rebench-V2, at 14% lower inference cost"), and three posts marked "Coming soon". Research posts end with the generic sitewide call to action.Source
    • Your websiteCompany page: White Circle is "a Public Benefit Corporation building infrastructure to control advanced AI"; it builds "guardrails, monitoring and red-teaming"; it intends "to be the trusted and neutral third party for AI control, independent from any one model provider, company or government".Source
  • 14

    The web and communications designers will design landing pages, and the site has eight solution pages built on one pattern. A component system lets them ship new use cases quickly.

    Medium impactMedium effort First result in 1 quarter Web Designer

    First action

    List the next ten use cases from sales calls.

    How to measure it

    New use-case pages

    Now
    –
    Target
    12
    By
    1 quarter

    Steps

    1. 1

      Componentize

      Sections in the design system.

      Design Engineer 2 weeks

    2. 2

      List use cases

      From calls.

      Founding Account Executive 1 week

    3. 3

      Write

      One a week.

      Content Lead weekly

    4. 4

      Design

      Visuals per page.

      Web Designer (Communication) weekly

    5. 5

      Publish

      With links.

      Design Engineer weekly

    6. 6

      Measure

      Demos per page.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    Web Designer (Communication)

    Smallest test

    Ship one use-case page.

    Why it works

    Turn the solution page into reusable sections (problem, how it works, policy examples, proof, demo form) and publish one new use-case page a week (for example customer support agents or coding agents).

    More focused pages match more buyer searches, and a system keeps them on brand.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Thin duplicates

      Each page has its own examples.

    Evidence

    • HiringCreative and product hiring: a Web Designer (Communication) (August 25, 2026) and a Communications Designer (October 5, 2026) to "Design landing pages from the first idea to polished, responsive final designs" and visuals for launches and events; a Production Manager (September 14, 2026) for custom merch, event materials and objects "people actually want to keep"; a Design Engineer (October 22, 2026) to own the product design system.Source
    • Your websiteSitemap (24 URLs, checked October 22, 2026): eight solution pages under /lp/ (features, compare, agentic-security, chatbot-security, data-leak-prevention, ai-hallucination-detection, content-moderation-api, prompt-injection-protection), seven research pages and one case study. No /lp/ page is linked from the homepage, the navigation (its "Features" item scrolls the homepage) or the footer, and the /lp/ pages do not link to each other. There is no blog (/blog returns 404).Source
    • Your website/lp/prompt-injection-protection: "Injection arrives through web fetch, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and user input. Every vector is checked"; per-user strikes and auto-enforcement; "99.99 % Our API uptime", "5 mins Time to integrate our API", "150+ Supported languages", "Unlimited custom policies"; a "Book a technical demo" form.Source
  • 15

    White Circle publishes a Markdown copy of the site for LLMs and agents, which is forward-looking. It is not yet clear which assistants read it or whether it brings visitors.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 quarter Founding GTM Engineer

    First action

    Turn on request logging for whitecircle.md.

    How to measure it

    Assistant-referred sessions

    Now
    –
    Target
    Baseline then +50%
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Log requests

      By user agent.

      Design Engineer 1 day

    2. 2

      Tracked links

      Back to the site.

      Design Engineer 1 day

    3. 3

      Sync

      New pages included.

      Design Engineer ongoing

    4. 4

      Monitor answers

      Key questions monthly.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    5. 5

      Fix gaps

      Content for missed questions.

      Content Lead monthly

    6. 6

      Report

      Quarterly.

      Founding GTM Engineer quarterly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    $0
    Owner
    Founding GTM Engineer

    Smallest test

    Check how three assistants describe White Circle today.

    Why it works

    Log requests to whitecircle.md by agent, add tracked links back to the main site, keep it in sync with new pages, and check monthly how assistants describe White Circle for key questions.

    If AI assistants are a discovery channel, measuring it shows where to invest.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Hard to attribute

      Combine logs, referrers and survey answers.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteHomepage: "Control user and model behavior in real time" with Test, Control, Analyze and Improve; one customer quote, from Lovable's CISO; named investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry and ARC Prize; "Adapt to every region: Apply different policies based on a user's location or jurisdiction"; SOC 2 and HIPAA badges; "Get Started" opens a login page and "Request a Demo" a contact form; no pricing page (/pricing returns 404); a Markdown copy of the site at whitecircle.md "If you're an LLM or agent".Source
    • Your websiteSitemap (24 URLs, checked October 22, 2026): eight solution pages under /lp/ (features, compare, agentic-security, chatbot-security, data-leak-prevention, ai-hallucination-detection, content-moderation-api, prompt-injection-protection), seven research pages and one case study. No /lp/ page is linked from the homepage, the navigation (its "Features" item scrolls the homepage) or the footer, and the /lp/ pages do not link to each other. There is no blog (/blog returns 404).Source
    • HiringFounding GTM Engineer (posted July 1, 2026, London): automate outbound and inbound, "Design and deploy AI agents across the GTM motion (e.g., account research, pre-call intelligence, personalised outreach)", "Experience in programmatic SEO and AEO", and "identify the highest-converting early segments". The post says White Circle is "at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks".Source

Big bets 3

Larger plays that can change the trajectory.

  • 16

    Lovable sends every session event to White Circle. Platforms that let others build AI apps face the same problem on behalf of thousands of customers.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 4 quarters Co founder and CEO

    First action

    List five platforms with the same problem as Lovable.

    How to measure it

    Platform partners

    Now
    –
    Target
    3
    By
    4 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      List platforms

      Five candidates.

      Co-founder and CEO 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Design edition

      Partner features.

      Product Designer 1 quarter

    3. 3

      Commercial terms

      Revenue share.

      Founding Account Executive 1 month

    4. 4

      Pilot

      One platform.

      Co-founder and CEO 1 quarter

    5. 5

      Launch

      Co-marketing.

      Content Lead 1 month

    6. 6

      Scale

      More platforms.

      Founding Account Executive quarterly

    First result
    4 quarters
    Cost
    Product and partner time
    Owner
    Co founder and CEO

    Smallest test

    Pitch the idea to one platform.

    Why it works

    Offer a partner edition for AI app and agent platforms: built-in policies their customers can configure, co-branded, with revenue share. Start with one platform similar to Lovable.

    One platform partner brings many end customers and makes White Circle the default control layer.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Platform builds its own

      Offer research and updates they cannot match.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteLovable case study (July 15, 2026): White Circle is "a supervision layer in Lovable's pipeline", model-agnostic; Lovable "sends every new event in a session to a single API endpoint"; coverage includes user supervision, model supervision and abuse and anomaly detection across sessions.Source
    • Your websiteCompany page: White Circle is "a Public Benefit Corporation building infrastructure to control advanced AI"; it builds "guardrails, monitoring and red-teaming"; it intends "to be the trusted and neutral third party for AI control, independent from any one model provider, company or government".Source
    • HiringFounding Account Executive (posted August 24, 2026, NY): "close six-figure deals", "navigate technical buying committees", and "help sharpen the best-fit customer profile, narrative, proposals, ROI cases, mutual action plans, pricing"; "We have great traction, but the sales motion is not fully figured out"; pipeline from "referral networks" and conferences.Source
  • 17

    CircleGuardBench measures "the real-world performance of AI guardrails", and White Circle aims to be a neutral third party for AI control. A regularly updated public leaderboard would make it a reference.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 3 quarters Research Engineer

    First action

    Rerun the benchmark on current models.

    How to measure it

    Monthly leaderboard visits

    Now
    –
    Target
    20,000
    By
    3 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Update methods

      Current threats.

      Research Engineer (Evals) 1 month

    2. 2

      Run models

      Open and commercial.

      Research Engineer (Evals) 1 month

    3. 3

      Build page

      Interactive table.

      Design Engineer 1 month

    4. 4

      Invite submissions

      Vendors and labs.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) ongoing

    5. 5

      Publish

      Quarterly.

      Content Lead quarterly

    6. 6

      Promote

      Research community.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) quarterly

    First result
    3 quarters
    Cost
    Compute and research time
    Owner
    Research Engineer (Evals)

    Smallest test

    Publish the current results as a table.

    Why it works

    Publish a leaderboard of guardrail and moderation models on standard tests, updated quarterly with open methods, inviting vendors to submit. Include White Circle's own models under the same rules.

    A trusted benchmark earns citations, press and buyer attention, and supports the neutrality claim.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Bias accusations

      Open methods and independent reviewers.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteResearch page: KillBench ("1,350,000+ experiments", 15 models), RISE red-teaming for text-to-image models, "Breaking Frontier Image Models Without Frontier AI", Halo open-source distributed training, CircleGuardBench ("Measuring the real-world performance of AI guardrails"), GLM-4.7-Flash-Coder ("from 33.15% to 41.65% on SWE-rebench-V2, at 14% lower inference cost"), and three posts marked "Coming soon". Research posts end with the generic sitewide call to action.Source
    • Your websiteCompany page: White Circle is "a Public Benefit Corporation building infrastructure to control advanced AI"; it builds "guardrails, monitoring and red-teaming"; it intends "to be the trusted and neutral third party for AI control, independent from any one model provider, company or government".Source
    • Competitor researchRivals' own sites: Lakera, "The AI-Native Security Platform to Accelerate GenAI"; Guardrails AI, "The AI Reliability Platform"; HiddenLayer, "Total AI Security"; Arthur, "AI governance for everyone", uniting "security, finance, and the teams shipping AI on one control plane".Source
  • 18

    The homepage says White Circle can "Apply different policies based on a user's location or jurisdiction". Buyers in regulated industries want a starting point rather than a blank policy editor.

    High impactHigh effort First result in 3 quarters Founding Account Executive

    First action

    Draft the fintech pack from neobank deployments.

    How to measure it

    Deals with a policy pack

    Now
    –
    Target
    40%
    By
    3 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick packs

      Three segments.

      Founding Account Executive 2 weeks

    2. 2

      Draft policies

      From deployments.

      Research Engineer (Evals) 1 month

    3. 3

      Expert review

      Domain advisors.

      Founding Account Executive 1 month

    4. 4

      Package

      Pricing and updates.

      Founding Account Executive 1 month

    5. 5

      Launch

      Pages and outreach.

      Content Lead 1 month

    6. 6

      Update

      Quarterly.

      Research Engineer (Evals) quarterly

    First result
    3 quarters
    Cost
    Expert review costs
    Owner
    Founding Account Executive

    Smallest test

    Offer a draft pack in one deal.

    Why it works

    Package curated policy sets by industry and region (for example consumer fintech, children's apps, healthcare support), reviewed with domain experts and each customer's counsel, and sell them as add-ons with updates.

    Packs shorten time to value and give sales a concrete product for each segment.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Seen as legal advice

      Position packs as starting points; customers keep responsibility.

    Evidence

    • Your websiteHomepage: "Control user and model behavior in real time" with Test, Control, Analyze and Improve; one customer quote, from Lovable's CISO; named investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Hugging Face, Mistral, DeepMind, Datadog, Sentry and ARC Prize; "Adapt to every region: Apply different policies based on a user's location or jurisdiction"; SOC 2 and HIPAA badges; "Get Started" opens a login page and "Request a Demo" a contact form; no pricing page (/pricing returns 404); a Markdown copy of the site at whitecircle.md "If you're an LLM or agent".Source
    • HiringCompany description in every post: the platform is built on "policies - simple natural-language rules that define what an AI model should and shouldn't do", tested, enforced and improved automatically; a Series A brings total funding to "$70M"; "We process over one hundred million API calls every month"; "We fine-tune and train our own LLMs". The posts link to whitecircle.ai, which redirects (301) to whitecircle.com.Source
    • HiringFounding GTM Engineer (posted July 1, 2026, London): automate outbound and inbound, "Design and deploy AI agents across the GTM motion (e.g., account research, pre-call intelligence, personalised outreach)", "Experience in programmatic SEO and AEO", and "identify the highest-converting early segments". The post says White Circle is "at a multi-million dollar run rate already having signed customers like Lovable and multiple neobanks".Source

Wildcards 3

Unexpected experiments, each with a cheap way to test it.

  • 19

    White Circle is hiring a Production Manager for custom objects "people actually want to keep", alongside events and enterprise sales. Memorable objects work best when they mark a moment.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 quarter Production Manager

    First action

    Pick three moments for the first run.

    How to measure it

    Referrals from kit recipients

    Now
    –
    Target
    10
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick moments

      Three.

      Production Manager 1 week

    2. 2

      Design

      Objects.

      Communications Designer 1 month

    3. 3

      Produce

      Small runs.

      Production Manager 1 month

    4. 4

      Send

      At milestones.

      Founding Account Executive ongoing

    5. 5

      Track

      Referrals and posts.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    6. 6

      Iterate

      Quarterly.

      Production Manager quarterly

    First result
    1 quarter
    Cost
    Production costs
    Owner
    Production Manager

    Smallest test

    Send a go-live kit to the next customer.

    Why it works

    Create small runs tied to milestones: a kit for new customers at go-live, a prize for hackathon winners, a gift for champions who close internally. Track which moments lead to referrals.

    Objects tied to achievements get shown and talked about; generic swag does not.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Gift policies at enterprises

      Keep value low and check rules.

    Evidence

    • HiringCreative and product hiring: a Web Designer (Communication) (August 25, 2026) and a Communications Designer (October 5, 2026) to "Design landing pages from the first idea to polished, responsive final designs" and visuals for launches and events; a Production Manager (September 14, 2026) for custom merch, event materials and objects "people actually want to keep"; a Design Engineer (October 22, 2026) to own the product design system.Source
    • HiringDevRel Lead (posted September 30, 2026): "make White Circle the AI safety platform engineers and researchers actually want to build with"; "Lead technical launches for open-source releases and developer tools, like our Halo framework"; tutorials and demos; "hackathons, meetups, and technical events, mainly in SF and New York"; partnerships with AI labs and dev tools companies; track "signups, repo stars, views, event turnout".Source
    • HiringFounding Account Executive (posted August 24, 2026, NY): "close six-figure deals", "navigate technical buying committees", and "help sharpen the best-fit customer profile, narrative, proposals, ROI cases, mutual action plans, pricing"; "We have great traction, but the sales motion is not fully figured out"; pipeline from "referral networks" and conferences.Source
  • 20

    Buyers worry that an inline control layer adds latency and risk; the site claims 50-100 ms end-to-end and 99.99% uptime, and a public status page exists.

    Medium impactLow effort First result in 1 month Design Engineer

    First action

    Expose latency percentiles from monitoring.

    How to measure it

    Solution-page demo rate

    Now
    –
    Target
    +10%
    By
    1 quarter

    Steps

    1. 1

      Pick metrics

      p50 and p95 latency, uptime.

      Design Engineer 2 days

    2. 2

      Expose data

      Public endpoint.

      Platform Engineer 1 week

    3. 3

      Build widget

      Design system.

      Design Engineer 1 week

    4. 4

      Add to pages

      Home and solutions.

      Web Designer (Communication) 1 day

    5. 5

      Test

      Demo rate.

      Founding GTM Engineer 1 month

    6. 6

      Maintain

      Monitor accuracy.

      Design Engineer ongoing

    First result
    1 month
    Cost
    Developer time
    Owner
    Design Engineer

    Smallest test

    Show last month's numbers as a static figure.

    Build the monitor. A live page fed by the public registries and re-checked every day. Usually live within days.

    Book a working session

    Why it works

    Add a small live widget with current latency percentiles and uptime from the status page to the homepage and solution pages, with a link to history.

    Live numbers answer the main objection to inline guardrails with evidence instead of claims.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Bad days are public

      Show history honestly with context.

    Evidence

    • Your website/lp/compare, "White Circle vs. the Competition": a table against "Typical vendors" without naming any, covering approach, latency ("50-100 ms end-to-end"), inspection of "tool arguments, tool outputs, agent traces, and fetched content", "Fully custom policies", data residency, multilingual support and an honest "Main trade-off" row.Source
    • Your website/lp/prompt-injection-protection: "Injection arrives through web fetch, MCP servers, RAG pipelines, and user input. Every vector is checked"; per-user strikes and auto-enforcement; "99.99 % Our API uptime", "5 mins Time to integrate our API", "150+ Supported languages", "Unlimited custom policies"; a "Book a technical demo" form.Source
    • GitHubGitHub organisation: halo (834 stars, "open-source framework built by White Circle for training large language and multimodal models", pushed October 20, 2026) and rise (136 stars); a Hugging Face organisation; documentation at docs.whitecircle.com, a public status page and a Vanta trust center.Source
  • 21

    Halo has 834 stars and recent commits, and the DevRel lead will run its launches. Open-source users are engineers training and deploying models, exactly the audience that later needs control.

    Medium impactMedium effort First result in 2 quarters DevRel Lead

    First action

    Update the Halo README.

    How to measure it

    GitHub-referred sessions

    Now
    –
    Target
    +100%
    By
    2 quarters

    Steps

    1. 1

      README

      Next steps section.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 1 day

    2. 2

      Tutorials

      Halo plus evaluation.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) 1 month

    3. 3

      Contributor events

      Invites.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) quarterly

    4. 4

      Track

      Referrals and sign-ups.

      Founding GTM Engineer monthly

    5. 5

      Release notes

      Link to research.

      Content Lead per release

    6. 6

      Review

      Quarterly.

      DevRel Lead (Developer Relations) quarterly

    First result
    2 quarters
    Cost
    Staff time only
    Owner
    DevRel Lead (Developer Relations)

    Smallest test

    Update the README this week.

    Why it works

    Add a clear "built by White Circle" section to the README and docs, publish tutorials that pair Halo-trained models with White Circle evaluation, and invite contributors to events.

    Open-source goodwill turns into product interest when the next step is obvious and useful.

    Risks and how to handle them

    • Community dislikes upsell

      Keep it useful and optional.

    Evidence

    • GitHubGitHub organisation: halo (834 stars, "open-source framework built by White Circle for training large language and multimodal models", pushed October 20, 2026) and rise (136 stars); a Hugging Face organisation; documentation at docs.whitecircle.com, a public status page and a Vanta trust center.Source
    • HiringDevRel Lead (posted September 30, 2026): "make White Circle the AI safety platform engineers and researchers actually want to build with"; "Lead technical launches for open-source releases and developer tools, like our Halo framework"; tutorials and demos; "hackathons, meetups, and technical events, mainly in SF and New York"; partnerships with AI labs and dev tools companies; track "signups, repo stars, views, event turnout".Source
    • Your websiteResearch page: KillBench ("1,350,000+ experiments", 15 models), RISE red-teaming for text-to-image models, "Breaking Frontier Image Models Without Frontier AI", Halo open-source distributed training, CircleGuardBench ("Measuring the real-world performance of AI guardrails"), GLM-4.7-Flash-Coder ("from 33.15% to 41.65% on SWE-rebench-V2, at 14% lower inference cost"), and three posts marked "Coming soon". Research posts end with the generic sitewide call to action.Source

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30/60/90 roadmap

What to focus on in each month, and the ideas that carry it.

  1. Days 1 to 306 ideas

    Link the solution pages, publish a neobank story, name competitors, add research calls to action, a security pack and consistent domain links.

  2. Days 31 to 6012 ideas

    Policy templates, a playground, integration guides, hackathons, signal outbound, ROI model, founder voice, a landing page system and assistant measurement; merch moments, live latency and Halo.

  3. Days 61 to 903 ideas

    Platform partners, a public guardrail leaderboard and policy packs.

The research behind the plan

3 research areas, each summarised in a few lines. Open any of them for the full detail.

Customers

What customers say

Customers value real-time control without slowing the product. The most cited problem: users attacking AI products.

  • Custom policies in plain language
  • Models taking unsafe actions
  • In their words: “guardrails”

Market

Competitive landscape

4 competitors compared: Lakera, Guardrails AI, HiddenLayer and Arthur.

  • Gap to exploit: Custom natural-language policies at low latency
  • Lakera: Detector-based approach
  • Guardrails AI: More do-it-yourself

Hiring signals

White Circle is building its first go-to-market team.

  • Content Lead: Publish on the website; case studies. Ideas 1, 2, 13.
  • Founding GTM Engineer: Programmatic SEO, AEO and AI outbound. Ideas 7, 11, 15.
  • Founding Account Executive: Narrative, ROI cases and pricing. Ideas 3, 5, 12.

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