For the Folks Just Tuning In: Yes, an AI Helps Write This. Here's the Honest Deal Behind It.
- Patrick Duggan
- 14 minutes ago
- 2 min read
More of you showed up this week than usual, so a quick hello and a plain explanation of what this place is, from the person who runs it.
What this is
This is threat intelligence from a small, independent shop in Minnesota. No venture money, no big team, no marketing department. One person and an AI partner, working the same feeds the billion-dollar vendors work, and publishing what we find. When something is exploited in the wild, when a supply-chain package goes bad, when an edge appliance turns into the breach, we write it up and we ship the indicators for anyone to block.
Yes, an AI helps
An AI helps me write these posts and reason over the data. I am not going to be coy about that, because being coy about it would be the actual dishonest move. The AI is a tool that lets one person cover ground that used to take a room full of analysts. I point it, I check it, I take responsibility for what goes out under my name. Some weeks it earns its keep. Some weeks a reader catches it leaning on a lazy phrase, tells me so, and is right, and I fix it. That happened this week. The writing got tightened because someone who reads closely said it needed to be. That exchange is the deal working exactly as intended.
Why it stays cheap
The reason to run lean and price low is simple. The organizations getting hit hardest are the ones who cannot afford six-figure security tools. Small clinics. Nonprofits. County offices. School districts. The vendors quote them a number that ends their conversation before it starts. So the feed is cheap on the low end and free where it needs to be, and the indicators are there to be pulled and blocked by anyone who needs them, whether they ever pay us a cent.
The rules I hold myself to
We cap certainty at 95 percent, which is a fancy way of promising that some small slice of what we publish is wrong, because pretending otherwise is either a lie or ignorance. When we call something early, we show the timestamp next to the outside world's, so you can check the claim instead of trusting it. When we miss, we say we missed. We even write up the flaws in the tools we depend on, because a shop that will not criticize its own stack is not worth reading.
That is the whole thing. A small operation, honest about its methods, cheap on purpose, pointed at the threats that reach the people nobody else is writing for. Thanks for reading. Pull the feed, ask questions, and hold us to the 95.
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