Bugcrowd Launches Savant Pathseeker for Agentic Penetration Testing

Bugcrowd has unveiled Savant Pathseeker, the inaugural offering in its new Agentic Offensive Testing product line. This innovative tool is designed to provide security teams with the capability to continuously test every external web application and API at scale. A key feature of Savant Pathseeker is its ability to furnish evidence of exploitability for identified vulnerabilities, addressing a critical gap in current security testing methodologies.

Traditional security approaches often struggle to achieve both deep and broad coverage. Crown-jewel assets may remain exposed for extended periods between infrequent manual penetration tests, while other assets are overwhelmed by scanner noise that flags theoretical flaws without confirming real risk. This disparity leaves organizations vulnerable, especially as attackers increasingly leverage AI for continuous probing while defenders operate with a point-in-time view.

Savant Pathseeker aims to bridge this gap by delivering continuous, in-depth testing capabilities. It provides safer, evidence-based agentic penetration testing across web applications and APIs, extending beyond just the assets prioritized on a pentest schedule. The findings are accompanied by reproducible proof of exploitability and audit-ready reports, intended to instill confidence in security teams, regulators, and auditors.

"Point solutions that only give you part of the picture aren’t good enough anymore," stated Braden Russell, Chief Technology Officer at Bugcrowd. "Every day, our research community uncovers the next generation of critical vulnerabilities—zero-days, business logic flaws, broken access controls—that automation and AI simply can’t find. We built Savant Pathseeker with our customers, designed around that human edge: bringing agentic discovery, testing, and validation into one place so every layer of offensive security works seamlessly."

The tool operates through purpose-built agents that continuously test web applications and APIs to map exposure and reduce risk. Findings are autonomously validated and presented through a unified platform, cutting through noise and streamlining workflows. Built-in guardrails and a manual kill switch ensure testing remains within defined scopes, offering users control over the process.

Savant Pathseeker is engineered to augment the work of Bugcrowd's global community of human pentesters and researchers. By offering broad, continuous baseline coverage through agentic pentesting, it frees up human experts to focus on complex tasks requiring adversarial creativity, such as intricate business logic flaws, exploit chains, and zero-day vulnerabilities that automated tools typically miss.

This new offering integrates seamlessly into Bugcrowd's existing suite of services, including Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), Bug Bounty, Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP), Red Team as a Service (RTaaS), and attack surface monitoring. This integration allows teams to investigate systems requiring deeper human analysis within a single, orchestrated platform experience.

Chris Steffen, Vice President of Research at Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), commented on the evolving landscape: "As agentic pentesting solutions continue to enter the market, the real differentiator won’t be automation alone, it will be how well those solutions combine agentic speed and scale with human expertise and judgment. The platforms that get this right, where AI handles continuous baseline coverage and human pentesters focus on the complex, high-impact work that machines can’t replicate, are the ones that will deliver meaningful risk reduction for security leaders."