BlueScan
BlueScan finds the small businesses in an MSP's territory whose security exposure is already visible from the outside and turns those findings into sales conversations.
MachBlue defends small businesses at machine speed, through the Managed Service Providers (MSPs) they already trust. Led by a former senior leader at U.S. Cyber Command, MachBlue gives MSPs one platform to grow their client base and defend clients.
MachBlue’s mission: Make every MSP an elite defender of Main Street.
BlueScan finds the small businesses in an MSP's territory whose security exposure is already visible from the outside and turns those findings into sales conversations.
BlueGuard is an AI-led SOC that runs on the security tools the MSP already uses and responds in minutes, within the limits the MSP sets.
BlueCenter is the console that runs the portfolio: every client the MSP defends, on one screen, ranked by live risk.
Attackers have held the edge over small businesses for decades. AI now gives them an even greater advantage. In 2026, AI agents compressed an intrusion that would take human attackers about two weeks into under ten hours, and the average attacker now spreads from first access to the rest of a network in 29 minutes.
Most small businesses can't afford an enterprise security operations center, so they rely on MSPs. Most MSPs rely on human-led detection services that raise alerts and hand response back to overworked technicians. This workflow, which always has humans in the loop, will be outrun by emerging AI attacks using coordinated agents running at machine speed.
MachBlue set out to change that. Doing it meant building a platform MSPs could trust with every client they serve:
Strict separation between clients. One MSP manages dozens or hundreds of businesses from a single place, and no client can ever see another's data.
AI that is fast but bounded. AI operates at machine speed, a deterministic engine executes every defensive action predictably, and humans own the policies. No large language model sits in the path that carries out a response.
A fit with the stack MSPs already run, from their EDR to their RMM and CRM.
Speed to market, because AI-led attacks are easy and inexpensive to set up and are starting to emerge.
MachBlue also adjusted its priorities according to market feedback. It began with BlueCenter, but early MSP demand pulled BlueScan and BlueGuard forward: MSPs wanted a stronger way to find and win new clients, and a more efficient way to run security operations. MachBlue had to rethink its engineering plan without fragmenting the product.
We partnered with MachBlue to take BlueCenter from an empty repository to a live, multi-tenant AWS product in about six months, while advancing BlueScan and BlueGuard in parallel as MSP demand pulled them forward. Across all three products, we supported architecture, risk scoring, remediation workflows, prospecting, integrations, onboarding, testing, infrastructure, and tenant-aware access.
A closer look at how we worked together on this project, including the engineering decisions, delivery practices, and collaboration model that helped us accomplish the goal.
Documented 59 Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) covering tenant isolation, scoring, integrations, and AI boundaries. Kept three products evolving in parallel on consistent technical ground, including lines on where AI acts and where humans decide.
Segmenting customers from one another is a critical priority for MSPs. Tenant isolation lives in the application's data-access layer, backed by AWS Cognito authentication and role-based permissions for admins, security leads, and technicians.
Unit, integration, and Playwright end-to-end tests cover critical workflows, with BlueGuard, Cognito, i-risk, and AWS Secrets Manager mocked so the suite stays dependable as integrations multiply.
Terraform, GitHub Actions, CodeRabbit, Claude Code, and Codex supported repeatable infrastructure, continuous integration, and an additional review layer on every PR. We use AI-assisted delivery, but humans still own every decision.
We helped MachBlue build BlueScan, BlueGuard, and BlueCenter as one connected platform that follows the MSP's own path: win the account, defend the client, and run every client from a single view.
Prospecting that opens doors. BlueScan uses publicly observable security data to find small businesses with real exposure, then generates PDF risk briefings an MSP can bring to a first meeting. One Top-30 US MSP, reviewing how accurate and current the findings were, told MachBlue: "We thought you had hacked our network."
AI-led security operations on the MSP's existing stack. BlueGuard brings AI-led Tier 1 and Tier 2 security operations to every client, 24/7. Phase 1 integrations span six EDR platforms and NinjaOne RMM, so MSPs add a SOC without replacing the tools they already run.
Every client's risk in one view. BlueCenter gives MSPs a risk-ranked view across their whole client portfolio, so teams can see where risk is concentrated and act on the worst first. It was designed to support 500+ client environments with a sub-3-second load target.
A risk score MSPs can stand behind. BlueCenter's scoring engine combines five weighted security dimensions with external and industry risk factors, turning fragmented security signals into one consistent measure MSPs can compare across clients.
From finding to fix. BlueCenter connects risk findings and BlueGuard incident context with technician assignment, a shared action queue, and bulk dispatch. AI does the heavy lifting, and the MSP stays in control of who acts and when.
In roughly six months, we partnered with MachBlue to take BlueCenter from an empty repository to a live, multi-tenant AWS product while advancing BlueScan and BlueGuard in parallel. Phase 1 of the products is complete.
From first commit to a deployed, multi-tenant production product.
Across 250+ merged PRs delivered by 1 engineer.
Unit/integration test files plus Playwright end-to-end specs across critical workflows and external boundaries.
Versioned database changes supported rapid product evolution with controlled schema changes.
Built with Next.js 16 (App Router), React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind 4, shadcn/ui, PostgreSQL, Drizzle ORM, NextAuth v5, AWS Cognito, Recharts, d3, @react-pdf/renderer, AWS ECS Fargate, RDS, ECR, S3, Terraform, GitHub Actions, Vitest, Playwright, CodeRabbit, and Codex.
Real impact, real growth. Hear directly from the team at MachBlue.
“AI agents are changing how small businesses get attacked, and MSPs need defense that moves at machine speed without taking control away from them. Stack Builders helped us get a multi-tenant platform into production in about six months, with the tenant isolation, testing, and architectural discipline a security product demands. The team is solid and gets the job done, and working remotely has never slowed us down.”