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Highground Global Intelligence is an enterprise SaaS platform that brings real-time global risk monitoring, threat intelligence, cybersecurity operations, and investigations into one secure command environment.
A map-first Global Risk Map with a live incident rail, live monitoring decks, travel security, country profiles, and alert management with two-person approval.
Threat actor dossiers, campaigns, competing attributions with independent review, relationship graphs, and finished intelligence products.
A Cyber Command dashboard, full alert lifecycle, incident response, verified remediation, detection rules, threat hunting, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping.
Staged case management, identity review, evidence with chain of custody and export controls, leads, hypotheses, and link analysis.
One command center across every workspace you can access, with shift handovers, executive sitreps, response tasks, and facility drill-downs.
A drag-and-drop Automation Studio, approval gates, kill switches, and Ask Highground, an AI assistant that answers from your own records.
Selected views from the Alpha V9 build. All organizations and people shown are fictional demo data.
An estimate of Highground as it stands in Alpha V9 (October 2026), based on the size of the build, comparable market pricing, and private SaaS valuation multiples.
About 12–16 person-years of work. A team of 9–10 would need 14–18 months to reach the current build.
Pre-revenue sale of the platform and IP to a strategic buyer, typically 25–50% of replacement cost.
$2.4M–$3M in annual recurring revenue at 4–10× ARR, depending on growth and retention.
| Backend & data engineers | 3 |
| Frontend & mapping engineers | 2 |
| Security & DevOps engineer | 1 |
| QA / test automation engineer | 1 |
| Product designer | 1 |
| Product manager & intelligence SME | 1–2 |
| Total team | 9–10 |
Based on a fully loaded US cost of about $225K–$250K per senior engineer per year.
| Lines of application code | ~120,000 |
| Lines of automated tests | ~27,000 |
| Database tables | 209 |
| Automated tests passing | 1,339 |
| Independent security review rounds | 2 |
| Integration providers mapped | 51 |
Figures from the Alpha V9 build and its implementation report.
Priced against enterprise intelligence platforms, where single-module contracts start around $15K–$60K a year and full enterprise suites run $250K to $500K or more.
Real-Time Intelligence and Highground Command for a single security team.
Adds Threat Intelligence, Investigations, and Automation Studio.
All four workspaces, every module, multi-region teams, and priority support.
At a blended $120K–$150K per client, 20 enterprise clients is $2.4M–$3M in annual recurring revenue. These are planning estimates, not a formal valuation or an offer to sell.
We take on a small number of client builds alongside our own products.
Founder of Keasling Engineering. Self-taught engineer. More than a decade in intelligence and security operations.
I grew up in Houston, Texas, and now call Austin home. I'm on the autism spectrum (Level 1 ASD), and I've always found peace in building things and understanding exactly how and why they work.
That's a big part of why I taught myself to code, and it's how I work today. I didn't come up through a traditional engineering path. I learned by doing, and when I take on a project, I build it from nothing to the very end with all the focus and precision I have.
For more than ten years I've worked in intelligence and security operations across government and the private sector: as a contractor with the National Security Agency supporting counterterrorism missions, with the Dallas Police Department and federal task forces, and leading security operations and fusion centers at Tesla and Dell Technologies. Along the way, I built the systems those teams ran on.
An open-source intelligence system that harnesses analysis to track the movements of terrorist organizations and predict where they'll go next.
Counter-drone operations built from the ground up to protect a 2,500-acre Fortune 100 manufacturing site.
An internal dispatch application with built-in automation for security operations and investigations.
Integration and configuration of risk intelligence and alerting SaaS platforms, including AlertMedia, Everbridge, and Ontic, for Fortune 100 companies.
I kept running into the same problem: the tools teams depend on in a crisis were rarely built by people who had worked one. So I started building them myself, and today that work continues with Highground Global Intelligence, the enterprise platform I'm building now.
No account managers, no handoffs, and no one learning on your project. The person you talk to on the first call is the person who designs, builds, and launches your software.
You work with me from the first conversation to launch and beyond. Nothing gets lost between a salesperson and a developer.
I've sat in SOCs and fusion centers during real crises, so I build for how your team actually works under pressure.
I build every project from nothing to the very end, with the focus and precision I'd want in my own tools.
Nobody handed me a playbook or took the time to explain the why and the how. So I started building. One tool, one system, one platform at a time, until I had written the playbooks myself.Chris Keasling, Founder
Work directly with me from first call to launch.
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