Built Around the Mission

A founder with 26 years on the offensive side. A team of operators, engineers, and builders chosen to turn that craft into autonomous AI.

ARES V1.0 DAGGER

Assail Leadership

Assail Leadership

We built Ares — an autonomous AI that thinks like a real attacker — so the most dangerous adversary in your environment is the one working for you.

Assail was founded on a simple, uncomfortable truth: the people paid to protect organizations will never be able to think like every attacker trying to break them. Not because they aren't talented — but because they're outnumbered, outpaced, and fighting a war where the rules only apply to one side. So we built something that doesn't play by those rules either. Ares is the product of 26 years spent on the other side of the wall — breaking into the systems that enterprises bet their business on — distilled into an autonomous AI that never stops thinking like an adversary. We didn't build another security tool. We built the attacker you wish was on your side.

Alissa Valentina Knight

CEO, Chief AI Officer

Melissa Knight

Chief Revenue Officer

Carolina Ruiz

Chief Compliance Officer, Chief of Staff

Ilir Osmanaj

Vice President, AI Engineering

Ian Penny

Director, Board of Directors

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