SOAR economics / investigation before orchestration
Replace SOAR Complexity with AI Clarity.
Traditional SOAR can demand a six-figure license, a six-figure implementation, and a specialist to keep every connector and playbook alive. TandemTrace attacks the investigation cost first—without pretending active response is already solved.
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TandemTrace is the AI investigation and decision layer that can replace traditional SOAR triage while your existing SOAR, EDR, identity platform, or ticketing system executes approved response actions.
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The SOAR invoice is only the beginning.
Public pricing and procurement evidence rarely produces a clean, comparable rate. The commercial pattern is clearer: license, implementation, specialist labor, and continuous maintenance compound into a substantial operating commitment.
First-year cost buildRepresentative mid-market model
Compare the whole systemTotal cost of ownership—not license against license.
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Traditional orchestration versus an investigation-first layer.
Conventional SOAR
Commercial modelSeat, action, ingestion, tenant, or credits
ImplementationConnector and playbook build
OperationsDedicated platform expertise
Scaling riskVolume and overage growth
Value pathAutomate every workflow
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TandemTrace beside your controls
Commercial focusInvestigations completed
ImplementationConnect evidence sources first
OperationsAI triage with analyst oversight
Response safetyExisting approved action layer
Value pathReduce investigation burden now
01Ingest
Receive alerts from connected SIEM and security systems.
02Enrich
Gather evidence across endpoints, identity, cloud, and intelligence.
03Decide
Produce an evidence-grounded verdict and recommended response.
04Hand off
Send the decision to the customer’s case or response system.
05Learn
Return disposition and status for reporting and improvement.
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A lower-risk path to lower cost.
“Use TandemTrace to investigate and decide. Keep execution in the systems already trusted to contain, revoke, quarantine, block, and document.”
ALERTSecurity signal
SIEM, EDR, identity, email, cloud, or network.
T2-TRACEInvestigation
Evidence, correlation, verdict, and recommended action.
APPROVALHuman or policy
The customer keeps control of consequential response.
CONTROLExecution
Existing SOAR, EDR, IAM, email, firewall, or ITSM.
FEEDBACKDisposition
Status returns for learning, audit, and reporting.
This model can reduce traditional triage work without forcing a rip-and-replace program or moving high-risk response into an immature action layer.
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The cost traps hidden behind the quote.
Connector driftAPI changes, authentication migrations, version support, and credential rotation.Playbook careRegression tests, failed-run recovery, duplicate logic, and content-pack changes.Production environmentsDevelopment, test, production, disaster recovery, monitoring, and support.GovernanceApprovals, audit, retention, compliance, blast radius, and exception handling.PeopleArchitecture, platform engineering, analyst training, administration, and on-call coverage.Usage metersActions, events, ingestion, AI credits, tenants, third-party APIs, and overages.
Open-source workflows, serverless functions, and native EDR automation can lower license cost, but they do not make engineering, observability, governance, or succession risk disappear.
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Prove the economics in your environment.
A credible business case uses actual consumption, customer baselines, and written incumbent quotes. TandemTrace should win on measured outcomes—not borrowed market ROI claims.
Cost per investigated alertInfrastructure, model, API, and storage cost divided by completed investigations.Autonomous triage coverageEligible alerts reaching a complete verdict without analyst correction.Analyst minutes savedMeasured baseline investigation time minus assisted investigation time.Time to verdictAlert ingestion to a stable, evidence-grounded decision.Connector maintenanceEngineering hours per connector per quarter.Three-year TCOSoftware, infrastructure, AI, support, labor, implementation, and maintenance.
Bring your SOAR bill. We’ll map the work behind it.
Compare license, implementation, specialist labor, maintenance, and investigation volume against a TandemTrace-assisted model.
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