May 12, 2026

Meet Cait™: The AI Pentester That Analyzes Before It Attacks

Miriam Riordan · 2 minute read

Your applications change every sprint. Your pentests should keep up.

Security teams have long been caught between two imperfect options. Traditional vulnerability scanners are fast but shallow because they fire static payload lists without understanding how your application actually works. That leads to teams being flooded with noisy, low-context findings. Manual penetration tests are deep but only episodic with each engagement requiring scoping calls, and expensive human time, so reports go stale the moment your next release ships.

That is why we're introducing Cait - Cacilian® AI. Cait is Cacilian's AI-assisted pentester that closes the gap between speed and depth, giving your team recurring, exploit-validated insight into how your applications really hold up under attack.

How Cait works

Cait doesn't behave like a smarter scanner. It behaves like a methodical, tireless pentester.

It starts by understanding your application. Before launching a single payload, Cait explores and classifies your web apps while mapping flows, identifying states and roles, and building an internal model of how your application responds. This context-first approach means attack paths are chosen based on how the app actually works.

Based on what it learns, Cait launches targeted attacks for high-impact vulnerabilities and common authentication and authorization flaws. It adapts payloads and strategy in real time based on actual responses. That’s why it can expand coverage across more flows within a recurring testing window.

Reported findings are designed to be supported by validation evidence and each reported issue must pass a dedicated validation pipeline. That means reproducible HTTP request/response pairs with highlighted evidence and clear remediation guidance. Cait is designed to suppress unvalidated findings unless the issue can be supported with reproducible evidence, which helps reduce false positives.

Why Cait is different

A new wave of AI pentesting tools has emerged, but most cluster at two extremes: deep but one-shot project-style tests, or broad platform bundles where pentesting is just one feature alongside scanners and SAST. Cait is built to occupy the space in the middle, combining real depth on each target with the continuity of always-on testing.

Context before payloads. Most AI tools still behave like smarter scanners. Cait plans targeted attacks based on how your app actually responds, producing findings that reflect real application behavior.

Quality over volume. Every finding ships with exploit-level HTTP evidence as well as steps to reproduce and remediation guidance. This results in fewer tickets and output intended to support SOC 2, ISO, and customer due diligence reviews.

Recurring coverage, fixed price. Teams save time with no scoping calls, no time spent with a project manager. A big difference is that Cait runs on a simple subscription per asset and triggers tests between formal audits, retests after fixes, and maintains continuous evidence of your security posture throughout the year.

Built to extend your team, not replace it. Cait handles the heavy lifting of recon and exploit validation 24/7 so your human pentesters can focus where they excel. Creative tasks like social engineering, mobile and binary testing, complex business logic, and deeply domain-specific edge cases are still part of the expert Prescient Security Pentester team. When a full-scope or bespoke assessment is needed, Prescient Security's human offensive-security team steps in on top of Cait's exploration history.

Pricing

Cait runs on a straightforward subscription. Each plan includes one test per month and up to two retests within 30 days:

First scan (unauthenticated): Free (see what Cait finds with no commitment)

Unauthenticated testing: $415/month (~$5,000/year)

Authenticated testing: $850/month (~$10,000/year)

Need more? Add retests for $250 each, or access the Tester Lab for $150/month, which includes manual validation of findings and one hour of consultation per month with a human pentester.

Pricing is per asset, subject to applicable terms, taxes, and scope limitations. Plan availability and pricing may change. Retests must be used within the applicable retest window.