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Bastion

Protect novel software features and outpace clone attempts automatically

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Software founders losing first-mover advantage to venture-backed copycats within 90 days of launch waste over $150k in stolen enterprise pipeline.

Bastion provides an automated IP obfuscation, dark-launch deployment engine, and real-time copycat threat intelligence suite for high-growth software teams. By analyzing public GitHub commits, domain registrations, and product launch telemetry, Bastion alerts product leaders to stealth clones before they go live. It dynamically encrypts proprietary client-side logic while orchestrating targeted private deployments directly to verified high-intent buyers.

Bastion turns fragile product innovations into defensible, revenue-generating enterprise category leaders.

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Problem
  • When I launch a novel SaaS feature publicly, I want to capture market share, but fast-follower competitors reverse-engineer my frontend architecture and copy my workflow within 60 days, causing a $100k ARR loss.
  • Why Now: Frontier LLMs enable competitor engineering teams to clone complex SaaS frontends and UI workflows overnight from public screenshots and network calls.
  • When I prepare a stealth product launch, I want to validate user demand with real buyers, but public beta testing exposes our core IP to copycats prior to full enterprise readiness.
  • When I file for early software IP protections, I want immediate defense, but traditional legal filings take 18 months and cost over $30k per jurisdiction.
  • Existing Alternatives: Manual code obfuscation scripts, NDA beta forms, delayed launches, and expensive legal retainers.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Cloudflare and Palantir for SaaS Product Defensibility.
  • Dynamic Frontend Code Obfuscation and API Token Shielding: Encrypts client-side application logic and dynamically rotates API endpoints to prevent simple reverse-engineering.
  • Dark-Launch Gatekeeper: Orchestrates silent beta deployments to verified enterprise buyers using encrypted single-tenant staging links.
  • Stealth Competitor Radar: Scans global GitHub commits, ProductHunt filings, domain registrations, and patent logs to flag clone repositories in real time.
Distribution
  • Early Adopters: Venture-backed B2B SaaS founders, solo developers launching novel software, and product leaders at mid-market software companies.
  • Direct integration partnerships with top startup incubators like Y Combinator, Techstars, and Pioneer to secure early-stage dealflow.
  • Automated vulnerability audits sent directly to CTOs showing how easily their current web application UI can be cloned by scrapers.
  • Targeted technical teardowns on Hacker News analyzing recent high-profile SaaS clone wars.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Free Tier ($0 for 1 app radar)
  • Pro ($290/mo for full obfuscation and dark launch)
  • Enterprise ($1.5k/mo for continuous IP defense and legal counter-notices).
  • One Metric That Matters: Number of active protected production deployments per paying account.
  • Market Sizing: SAM: 50k high-growth SaaS companies x $3.5k annual ARPU = $175M; SOM Year 1: 500 paid teams = $1.75M ARR.
Scale Costs
  • Global edge network infrastructure for real-time client obfuscation without latency degradation.
  • Continuous web-scale crawling and vector indexing of developer code repositories, domain registries, and app stores.
  • Dedicated IP law compliance network and automated DMCA enforcement partnerships across 40+ countries.
Expert Opinions
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  • world-famous SaaS Growth Executive and VP of Product Security
    9.6
  • leading Patent Attorney and Tech IP Strategist
    9.4
  • Indie Hacker Community Lead and Micro-VC Partner
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