01THE PLATFORMS
Cube23 operates the identity estate. Trace8 replaces the SIEM model. Meridian reasons over the AWS cloud. CAELION builds, owns, and operates its software — each platform precise about its category, deep on its domain, and runnable through to its own site for the full architecture.
CUBE23 · TRACE8 · MERIDIANBuilt, owned & operated by CAELION
02CUBE23 · IDENTITY EXECUTION
Governance decides who gets access. Cube23 executes it — safely, every time. Enterprise identity runs on scripts, tickets, and manual operators. Cube23 turns every identity operation into a protocol-bound, zero-trust, evidence-backed execution contract across Active Directory, Entra ID, Exchange, and PAM.
The mechanism, in one line
Compiled into a typed protocol, policy-checked before anything touches a target, sealed in a short-lived execution envelope, performed by a trust-scored worker, and verified — then written to memory. No standing trust anywhere in the path.
Enter Cube23 · cube23.io →Where it fits
| Traditional IAM / IGA / PAM | Cube23 |
|---|---|
| Defines access policy | Executes the operational workflow |
| Approval-focused | Execution & orchestration-focused |
| Limited hybrid execution depth | Deep on-prem + cloud execution |
| Audit reassembled after the fact | Evidence generated as work happens |
03TRACE8 · AI-NATIVE SECURITY OPERATIONS
Every alert investigated. Not triaged — investigated. Trace8 runs a full investigation on every alert through eight specialized Frame Agents, one of which exists only to prove the others wrong. The analyst arrives at a conclusion, not a starting point.
The differentiator — zero-ingestion federation
Trace8 queries your existing Sentinel, Splunk, or Elastic on-demand with read-only credentials. Raw results live in memory for a single step and are never stored — only the AI-generated summary persists. Your data stays in your platform, under your retention, inside your boundary.
Enter Trace8 · trace8.io →Eight agents, one pipeline
04CASE STUDY · TRACE8
Operations in 14 countries. Critical infrastructure spanning IT and OT. A three-analyst SOC standing between 4,300 daily alerts and the business. This is what changed when investigation became the default, not the exception.
Microsoft Sentinel was doing its job — too well. Detection rules tuned for critical infrastructure produced thousands of daily signals, and the team could genuinely investigate fewer than one in ten. Mean time to investigate the ones they did reach: 4.2 hours. Every skipped alert was accepted risk nobody had priced.
Trace8 connected to the existing Sentinel workspace in week one — read-only, zero-ingestion, no migration, no agents on endpoints. The eight-agent pipeline began investigating every alert end-to-end, with the Challenge agent adversarially testing each verdict before a human ever saw it. Raw logs never left the client’s boundary; only AI-generated case files persisted.
Conclusions instead of starting points. Escalations arrived as evidence-backed briefs — verdict, timeline, artifacts, recommended containment — and the SOC’s three analysts moved from triage to oversight and threat hunting. The SIEM stayed. The queue didn’t.
| Dimension | Before | With Trace8 |
|---|---|---|
| Alert coverage | <10% of 4,300/day genuinely investigated | Every alert, end-to-end, 24×7 |
| Analyst time | ~78% consumed by false-positive triage | Redeployed to oversight & hunting |
| Escalation quality | Raw alerts forwarded upward | Evidence-backed briefs with verdicts |
| Data movement | Ingestion pressure, growing retention bill | Zero-ingestion — queried in place, read-only |
| SIEM economics | Costs scaling with every new log source | Existing SIEM kept; economics flat |
| Audit posture | Investigations reconstructed after the fact | Case files generated as work happens |
AI SOC assistants make triage faster inside the same SIEM economics. Trace8 changes the economics themselves: every alert investigated, an adversarial agent stress-testing every verdict, and zero raw data ingested — which is why it replaces the model, not just accelerates it.
Client identity withheld by agreement. Figures anonymized and rounded from engagement reporting.
05MERIDIAN · AGENTIC AWS OPERATIONS
Your cloud, on speaking terms. Cloud spend is outpacing the teams governing it — industry research puts wasted enterprise cloud spend at 29% (Flexera 2026). Meridian closes that gap: ask one question in plain English and it reasons over live data across 50+ read-only AWS integrations, correlates cost, performance and security signals, and answers in seconds — with the evidence and dollar impact attached.
Enterprise-grade by construction
Read-only by default, least-privilege IAM, full audit trail — your infrastructure metadata never leaves your account boundary. Meridian runs inside the customer AWS account, read-only first, with remediation optionally generated as ready-to-run IaC.
The mechanism, in one line
06SHARED DOCTRINE
Before any CAELION agent acts — in Cube23, Trace8, or Meridian — the action is bound into an execution contract. If any answer is missing, the action does not run.
Read the doctrine · The Agentic Approach →01
What is being attempted — and why?
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Exactly which systems may be touched?
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What happens if it succeeds — or fails?
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What telemetry justifies the decision?
07WHAT CONNECTS THEM
Three categories, one architecture of conviction: a defensible core, evidence generated as work happens, zero standing trust, compounding memory, and adjacency to the systems you already run.
| Shared commitment | In Cube23 | In Trace8 | In Meridian |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built around a defensible core | The Cube23 Protocol | The eight-agent pipeline | Bedrock AgentCore reasoning layer |
| Evidence is generated, not reconstructed | Hashed evidence ledger | Auditable agent case file | Every finding cites live telemetry |
| Zero standing trust | Just-in-time worker fabric | Read-only, on-demand federation | Read-only by default, scoped IAM |
| Gets sharper the longer it runs | Identity Memory Engine | Correction-fed data flywheel | Conversation memory & scheduled insights |
| Adjacent, not rip-and-replace | Alongside IGA / PAM | Alongside your SIEM storage | Inside your AWS accounts, no ETL |
Whether it’s manual identity operations, an alert backlog, or an AWS bill nobody can explain, bring us the work costing your team the most time. We’ll show you what it looks like once it’s governed, evidenced, and owned.
Cube23 · Trace8 · Meridian — one execution doctrine, built, owned & operated by CAELION