Startups & small teams
Beam for startups
Your whole team ships with Claude Code, Cursor or another agent, and nobody has time to build a monitoring stack. Beam is one hook plus a local service — a real activity record in minutes, not a security project.
No fleet management, no procurement cycle, no dashboard to stand up unless you want one. Self-host the open-source core for free, or talk to us if you outgrow that.
What you get without hiring for it
The same record larger teams get, sized for a team that can't dedicate headcount to it.
- Fast setup
One hook, one local service
Merge a PreToolUse or PostToolUse hook and you have a running record — no infrastructure to provision first.
- Free to self-host
Open-source core, no license to negotiate
Beam CLI is public. Run it yourself with nothing to buy while you're small.
- Supply chain
Check an MCP server before you wire it in
Startups adopt new MCP servers fast — Beam scans a config for tool poisoning and exfiltration patterns before you trust it.
- Evidence when it matters
A record ready for your first enterprise deal
When a customer's security questionnaire asks how you monitor AI-assisted engineering, you have an actual answer instead of a scramble.
- Grows with you
The same product, more of it later
Start on a couple of laptops. On-premise deployment and fleet features are the same core, not a rebuild, when you need them.
How a small team actually starts
- 01
Merge the hook on your own machine first
Try it yourself before asking the rest of the team to adopt anything.
- 02
Roll it to the team once it's boring
A short message and a one-line setup step — no rollout plan required at this size.
- 03
Export when someone actually asks
A redacted NDJSON export the first time a customer or investor's security review wants proof.
Where Beam fits, and where it doesn't
Beam does
- Give a small team a real activity record with almost no setup cost
- Scan MCP configs and skills before you connect them
- Stay free to self-host via the open-source CLI
- Give you something concrete to show a customer's security review
Beam does not
- Require a security hire or a procurement process to start
- Block or gate an agent's actions in v1 — observe and alert only
- Come with SSO, shared dashboards or fleet management out of the box
- Replace due diligence on the AI tools you choose to adopt
Questions small teams actually ask
Is this overkill for a five-person team?
It's one hook and a local service — not a platform to operate. If you're already shipping with AI agents on real customer data, a local record costs you almost nothing to have and a lot to reconstruct later without it.
Do we need to pay to use it?
No. Beam CLI's core is open source and self-hostable for free. Talk to us if you want the managed dashboard or fleet features later.
Will this slow down how fast we ship?
Owners and admins can set enforce policy so matching Claude Code and Codex tool calls are denied, and Sentinel can pause or block high-risk browser sends. Advisory mode flags without denying. Missing or expired cached policy is fail-open, so it is not a guaranteed gate on every harness.
Can we show this to an enterprise customer's security team?
Yes — that's a common reason startups adopt it. An exportable, evidence-backed record of how you monitor AI-assisted engineering is a real answer to that question, not a claim.
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Get a record running before you need one
One hook, one local service, and you know what your team's AI has actually been doing.