Built by someone who spent his career in the field
CITED Relevance was founded by Joshua Hayes, who spent 27 years in outside plant fiber optic and process control field operations before building software for the people he used to work alongside. That is not a tagline. It is the reason BreachSpider exists, and the reason it speaks the language of the plant floor instead of the security conference.
Most industrial cybersecurity tools are built by security companies looking into operational technology from the outside. BreachSpider was built from the inside out, by someone who has stood in substations and pump houses and control rooms, and who knows what a technician actually faces when something is wrong at 2 a.m. and no one can yet say whether it is mechanical or cyber.
The problem worth solving
Across the country there are utilities, water authorities, and regional manufacturers where one person carries the entire weight of industrial cybersecurity. No dedicated team. No six-figure budget. No realistic way to afford the enterprise platforms built for the Fortune 500. These are the operators running the infrastructure everyone depends on, and they are the most exposed.
BreachSpider was built for that person. Enterprise-grade vulnerability intelligence, designed and priced for one accountable individual rather than a staffed security operations center.
What BreachSpider does
BreachSpider is a live ICS and OT vulnerability intelligence platform. It enriches more than 350,000 vulnerability records with industrial context, cross-references them against a customer's specific vendors and assets, and surfaces the small fraction that actually threaten a given environment. It tracks known exploited vulnerabilities in near real time, maps findings to NERC CIP and IEC 62443 obligations, generates deployable detection rules where no vendor patch exists, and produces audit-ready evidence under company letterhead.
The platform is grounded in active vulnerability research. The founder maintains an ongoing research practice in ICS and OT vulnerabilities, and that work feeds directly back into what the platform knows.
SAGE, the engine underneath
SAGE, the Sovereign AI Governance Engine, was built first. BreachSpider was built on top of it. SAGE is not a chatbot bolted onto a database. It grounds every answer in verified vulnerability data rather than open-ended generation, and it is built to respond the way a senior OT security engineer would, in plain language an operator can act on. The engine is the subject of a pending United States patent.
Where we are
CITED Relevance is an early-stage company with a live platform and paid subscription tiers, based in Jefferson, Georgia.