Vendor profile
Mate Security profile: an AI SOC platform that replaces SOAR
The short answer
By The Triage Desk · AI Cyber Compare · Published 2026-10-08
Desk research from public vendor pages: vendor facts read September 2026, updated 2026-10-13. Editorial reading of what vendors publish; we did not run the products and did not interview vendors.
Which operating model is Mate?
Primary model: AI SOC analyst platform.
Who carries each stage in Mate?
- Your analysts
- Rules you write
- AI agent
- Provider's analysts
- Shared
- Not described
- Respond: Graduated autonomy with guardrails: Recommend only, Supervised, or Auto-run for trusted categories.
Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 27 Sep 2026
- Tune: Decision traces record why analysts decided what they did; Gamebooks are written in plain language.
Source: Mate Security: Gamebooks · Read 27 Sep 2026
Compared with the AI SOC analyst model as a whole, Mate differs on: Nights and weekends.
What does Mate document?
| Capability | Status |
|---|---|
| Runs response actions itself | Documented |
| Approval or sign-off before actions | Documented |
| Can act alone on some cases | Documented |
| Translates existing SOAR playbooks | Documented |
| Optional service where the vendor's people work the queue | Not described |
| Multi-tenant or MSSP offering | Not described |
| On-premises, hybrid or your own cloud tenant | Not described |
| Single-tenant option | Not described |
| Data residency option | Not described |
| Integration count published | Not described |
| Pricing unit or tiers published | Not described |
Documented: 4 of 11. Not described: an optional service where its own people work the queue, a multi-tenant or MSSP offering, on-premises, hybrid or customer-tenant hosting, a single-tenant option, a data residency option, a published integration count and a published pricing unit or tiers.
What are Mate's strengths?
Strengths
- The only vendor here whose public pages describe translating existing SOAR playbooks into its own format rather than rebuilding them.
- Graduated autonomy in three named levels, with guardrails and actions scored on confidence, precision and reversibility and enforced outside the agent loop.
- Investigations grounded in a context graph of memories and decision traces from your own team.
What are Mate's limits?
Limits
- No pricing unit is published; AWS Marketplace lists one Enterprise tier.
- No integration count is published; confirm your SIEM, EDR and ticketing tools are covered.
What does Mate say about its own results?
Key facts
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| What it is | An AI SOC platform; Mate describes an "AI SOC agent that learns your organization in hours". Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Security Context Graph | Memories (with source, confidence and freshness), decision traces, guardrails and architecture. Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Alert domains | Domain logic for cloud, insider, email, endpoint, identity and phishing alerts. Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Graduated autonomy | Three levels with guardrails: Recommend only; Supervised (low-risk steps run, risky changes need approval); Auto-run for trusted categories under guardrails and audit. Guardrails are enforced outside the agent's reasoning loop, and Mate describes a return to Supervised when verdicts drift from analyst reviews. Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| CD/CR | Mate describes continuous detection / continuous response (CD/CR) on its security context graph. Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Position on SOAR | Replaces SOAR: existing playbooks are translated into Gamebooks. Source: Mate Security: Gamebooks · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Analyst agreement | 99% agreement with analysts (as Mate states). Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Onboarding | Onboarding in under 24 hours (as Mate states). Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Gamebooks | "Mate translates your SOAR playbooks into Gamebooks. Brittle API calls get replaced. Your custom logic stays." Described as "Deterministic where it can. Intelligent where you need it." and written in plain language. Source: Mate Security: Gamebooks · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Other functions | Threat hunting from plain language or CTI reports mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and a detection engineering library. Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Founders | Asaf Wiener (CEO), Oren Saban (CPO), Guy Pergal (CTO). Source: Mate Security about page · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Accelerator | Selected for the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS and NVIDIA startup accelerator (5 January to 3 March 2026). Source: Mate blog: 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS and NVIDIA startup accelerator · Published 5 Jan 2026 · Read 27 Sep 2026 |
| Action controls | Actions are scored on Confidence, Precision and Reversibility (CPR), enforced outside the agent loop. Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Detection engineering | Detections are created, tuned or deprecated from investigation outcomes. Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Positioning (October 2026) | "Agentic SOC designed for AI-speed", with agents for triage, investigations, response, threat hunting and detections. Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
| Subprocessors | Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Sentry, Coralogix. Source: Mate Security trust center · Read 11 Oct 2026 |
Integrations, deployment, pricing, compliance and funding
- Integrations
- Not publishedNamed on its pages: Microsoft (identity and mail), Google Workspace, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Proofpoint, Slack and threat intelligence platforms.
- Deployment
- Mate says it is built on AWS infrastructure and sells through AWS Marketplace. Its trust center lists Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services as cloud subprocessors. Self-hosted, customer-tenant or data residency options: not described.
Source: Mate blog: now available on AWS Marketplace · Published 15 Jan 2026 · Read 27 Sep 2026 · Mate Security trust center · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Pricing
- Not publishedNo price on Mate's own site. AWS Marketplace lists one dimension, Mate Enterprise Tier, at $150,000 per 12-month contract; the listing does not define the usage tier, and private offers are available. Mate says marketplace purchases can count toward AWS commitments.
Source: AWS Marketplace: Mate Security · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- ISO 27001:2022, SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, CCPA and GDPR, per its trust center, which also lists a SOC 2 Type 2 report, a HIPAA completion letter, an ISO 27001 certificate, a 2026 pentest report and a disaster recovery drill report.
Source: Mate Security trust center · Read 11 Oct 2026
- Funding
- $15.5M seed (November 2025) and a $35M Series A (July 2026), per Mate's newsroom; investors listed: Canaan, Team8, Insight Partners, M12.
If Mate is not the fit, which vendors document what it does not?
| Capability | Documented by |
|---|---|
| Optional service where the vendor's people work the queue | 7AI, Artemis Security, Exaforce and Prophet Security |
| Multi-tenant or MSSP offering | Conifers CognitiveSOC and Dropzone AI |
| On-premises, hybrid or your own cloud tenant | Conifers CognitiveSOC, Cortex XSOAR, Splunk SOAR and Tines |
| Single-tenant option | Dropzone AI and Prophet Security |
| Data residency option | Conifers CognitiveSOC and Dropzone AI |
| Integration count published | Artemis Security, Conifers CognitiveSOC, Cortex XSOAR, Dropzone AI, Exaforce, Intezer, Prophet Security, Splunk SOAR and Torq AI SOC Platform |
| Pricing unit or tiers published | Dropzone AI, Intezer and Tines |
How does Mate compare head to head?
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What does Mate Security cost?
Not published. No price on Mate's own site. AWS Marketplace lists one dimension, Mate Enterprise Tier, at $150,000 per 12-month contract; the listing does not define the usage tier, and private offers are available. Mate says marketplace purchases can count toward AWS commitments.
Does Mate Security replace SOAR?
Mate Security runs response itself and does not require a SOAR. It describes translating existing playbooks into its own format.
Does Mate Security offer a managed service?
Not on the pages reviewed. Mate Security is sold as software your team runs.
Sources for this profile
Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate Security: Gamebooks · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate blog: Introducing Gamebooks · Published 27 Aug 2026 · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate blog: now available on AWS Marketplace · Published 15 Jan 2026 · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate Security about page · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate Security newsroom · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate blog: Series A announcement · Published 30 Jul 2026 · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate blog: Introducing the Security Context Graph · Published 19 Feb 2026 · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate blog: 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS and NVIDIA startup accelerator · Published 5 Jan 2026 · Read 27 Sep 2026
Source: Mate Security homepage · Read 11 Oct 2026
Source: Mate Security platform page · Read 11 Oct 2026
Source: Mate Security trust center · Read 11 Oct 2026
Source: AWS Marketplace: Mate Security · Read 11 Oct 2026