# TandemTrace — The autonomous layer of the modern SOC

> Adversaries already operate at machine speed. Your SOC will have to. TandemTrace is the layer that gets you there — Tier 1 triage in 60 seconds, hunting that doesn't sleep, and a coverage audit that runs itself. Your team makes the judgment calls. The machine does the rest.

By 2030, every SOC (Security Operations Center — the team that monitors and responds to security alerts) runs on an autonomous layer. TandemTrace is building it.

## At a glance

- **60 s** — avg triage verdict
- **720×** — faster investigation
- **99 %** — noise eliminated
- **100 %** — coverage, no shift gaps

Works with: Splunk · Microsoft Sentinel · CrowdStrike Falcon · Elastic · AWS · IBM QRadar · OpenSearch · any log source. Cloud or on-prem.

## The math doesn't work anymore

Every modern SOC is running the same broken equation: more alerts than analysts can triage, more noise than signal, more turnover than training can replace. Adding people doesn't scale. Adding dashboards doesn't help. The only resolution is an autonomous layer that acts.

Reality check, sampled across n=200 enterprise SOCs in 2026.Q1:

1. **1,000+ alerts per SOC per day, ~30 minutes each.** A team can't triage a thousand alerts a day at human speed. Most queues get sampled, not investigated. Most teams close low-priority queues unread by Wednesday. The miss could be the breach.
2. **~40% closed unread.** "We just close the noise" — the quiet truth in every overflowing queue. Suppression rules outpace investigation rates. Includes alerts later linked to incidents.
3. **12-month median Tier 1 tenure.** Tier 1 burns out and leaves. The work that drives turnover is exactly the work that doesn't need a human anymore. Replacement cost dwarfs platform cost.
4. **7 critical MITRE gaps per SOC.** Blind spots adversaries already know. Coverage is a quarterly slide; gaps surface after an incident, not before. Average critical gaps in enterprise SOCs we've audited — actively exploited in the wild.

## The architecture

TandemTrace doesn't replace anything in your stack — it reads from it. EDR, SIEM, identity, and cloud telemetry flow in over read-only APIs. The agent triages, investigates, hunts, and correlates. False positives auto-close with full reasoning; real incidents and hunt findings land on your senior queue. **No endpoint agents. No log re-routing.**

```
Customer telemetry           AI SOC layer            Outputs
─────────────────            ────────────            ───────
XDR (EDR · ID · Cloud)  ─┐                    ┌─→  Auto-close · FP (reasoning attached · replayable)
SIEM (Splunk · Sentinel ├─→  TandemTrace       ├─→  Senior queue (real incidents only)
       · Chronicle · ES) │   Triage · Invest.  │
Identity (AD · Entra    ├─→  Hunt 24/7        ├─→  Hunt findings (hypothesis · query · evidence)
        · Okta)         │   Correlate         │
Cloud (AWS · GCP · Az)  ─┘                    └─→  Audit trail (every pivot, every decision)
```

Read-only credentials. No endpoint agents. No log re-routing. Deploys in days.

## The SOC, transformed — day-in-the-life

| Role | Today | With TandemTrace |
|---|---|---|
| **Tier 1 — Alert triage** | Drowning in 1,000+ alerts/day. Surface-level checks. Most queues sampled, not investigated. High turnover. | Every alert investigated in 60 seconds. Tier 1 reviews verdicts, not raw queues. Burnout disappears with the busywork. |
| **Tier 2 / 3 — Incident response** | Investigations stall while analysts pivot across consoles, pulling logs by hand. Hours per incident. | Investigation graph pre-assembled. Analysts arrive at a fully evidenced case — they make judgment calls, not data pulls. |
| **Threat hunting — Proactive discovery** | Scheduled when there's time, which is rarely. Hypotheses come from the same handful of senior hunters. | Continuous, hypothesis-driven. AI generates and tests; humans review ranked findings. 24/7 background process. |
| **Detection engineering — Coverage** | Coverage is a quarterly slide. Gaps surface after an incident, not before. | Coverage audited continuously. Gaps ranked by exploitation in the wild, with draft detections shipped to the engineering queue. |

## The thesis

The SOC problem cannot be solved by humans. Adding analysts doesn't scale to the volume. Adding dashboards doesn't change the math. Only an autonomous layer that **acts** does. The transition is happening this decade — and the platform that captures Tier 1 first becomes the operating system the rest of the SOC runs on.

## Backed by

- Acurio Ventures (lead)
- Adara Ventures (lead)
- Addendum Capital (strategic)

## Talk to us

Email [hello@TandemTrace.ai](mailto:hello@TandemTrace.ai) — a real human replies in hours. Or request a walkthrough at [/contact](https://tandemtrace.ai/contact). 30 minutes. Bring a slice of your real alert queue and watch the autonomous layer triage it live, in your stack. No deck.

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*Last updated: 2026-05-16*