CovertSwarm launches RAID: Our red team AI division

Over the last six months, we’ve been quietly building our own agentic AI capability. Not buying it off the shelf. Not bolting a third-party model onto our workflows and calling it innovation. Building it. And as of today, we’re announcing the division responsible for that work: RAID, our Red Team AI Division. 

What RAID is 

RAID is not a product. It’s not a feature. It’s a division within CovertSwarm with a clear, focused remit: to build and continuously advance the agentic capabilities of Constant Cyber Attack.  

Within RAID, we have some of the smartest AI engineers in the business working alongside the very best ethical hackers in the world, all of whom are fully employed by CovertSwarm. The team is interchangeable by design. What matters isn’t individual names, it’s the capability they’re building together. 

That capability takes the form of a series of agents, each with distinct personalities and dedicated tool sets, that now form part of the Swarm. They work alongside our human operators, driving efficiency and value for our customers.  

Why we built it 

I’ve said for a long time that our industry, offensive security, has to disconnect a day of human time from a day of human delivery. That’s not about automating everything. That’s the wrong answer, and frankly, anyone telling you otherwise doesn’t understand what this industry actually requires. 

What it’s about is using machines, and AI as part of that, to free up our humans to be more creative and go deeper than they ever could before. The repetitive elements of an attack: reconnaissance, enumeration, surface mapping, elements of the OWASP top 10 and all the groundwork, are handled consistently and at speed. That frees our operators to focus entirely on the human piece. The lateral thinking, the chained exploits, the things that require judgment and creativity that no model can ever replicate. 

The vision is that an offensive security engineer on our team today will be able to deliver four or five times as much output as they could previously. Not because we’ve replaced them. Because we’ve enabled them. Working smarter, not harder.  

The threat picture made this non-negotiable 

Real adversaries, state-sponsored actors, organised criminal groups, and malicious hackers of every kind are automating their attacks. They are building their own agentic capability. They are reaching for whatever tooling gives them scale and speed, whether that’s AI or otherwise. 

There is simply no way for us to simulate and emulate our clients’ worst nightmares if we’re not ourselves building at the same frontier. To outpace the threat, you must move faster. That is what RAID exists to do.  

What we’ve built, and how we’ve built it 

The capability RAID has developed is our own intellectual property. Critically, it’s model agnostic. We made a deliberate decision not to engineer ourselves onto a specific LLM or backend provider, because this space is moving too fast for that to make sense. We use different models at different stages of our agentic workflows, and we can interchange them as the landscape evolves. The architecture is designed for that flexibility from the ground up. 

This is also not untested. Before going public with this, we’re have been ethically (and with permission) attacking array of targets. The discoveries our agents are surfacing are, in some cases, exposures that would not have been found any other way. We’ll be sharing more technical depth with the community over the coming months.  Starting with RAID Files, a technical series coming from the division.  

What this means for customers 

If you’re a CovertSwarm customer, you’re already benefiting from this. As of today, the RAID capability is live and embedded in how we deliver constant cyber attack. The quality floor just went up. The consistency of what you receive went up with it. One of the persistent frustrations in this industry has been variability: one great engagement, one average one, depending on who runs it. What RAID enables is bringing the best of what our people do and building it into the fabric of every operation. 

If you’re not yet a customer, this is worth paying attention to. While others were talking about AI, we were building it, testing it and embedding it into live delivery. RAID is now part of how CovertSwarm operates, which means our customers now benefit from a more advanced, more efficient and more dangerous-to-ignore Swarm. 

We’ve got a lot more to share. And we will. 

Ready to find out what’s already being uncovered in your environment? Talk to us.