There was a pattern we kept seeing that genuinely bothered us. A startup would get to Series A, or land their first enterprise customer, and suddenly need a pentest report right now . They'd scramble to find a vendor, get hit with a 4-week scoping call process, a €30k quote, and a PDF that mostly described low-severity findings their scanner already caught. They didn't need a €30k PDF. They needed someone to actually look at their auth layer, their API, their trust boundaries and tell them what was actually broken. That frustration is what became Faultline Security . The problem we were trying to solve When we started talking to early-stage founders about security, the same themes kept coming up: "We know we need a pentest but have no idea where to start" "The quotes we got were either too expensive or too vague" "We have a SOC 2 audit in 8 weeks — is that enough time?" "Our enterprise prospect is asking for a pentest report and we've never done one" None of these are hard problems, conceptually. We get it!…