A: Snyk and Aikido are both broad AppSec platforms covering the same daily flow — push code, get a report, fix what's flagged. Snyk's wedge is dependency scanning: the deepest commercial vulnerability database in the market and auto-fix PRs for known-vulnerable packages. Aikido's wedge is consolidation — SAST, SCA, secrets, container, IaC, and cloud posture under one dashboard, usually pitched as a replacement for three to five separate tools.

Rafter overlaps on the SAST + SCA + secrets surface but is positioned differently, and we design for agents and with agents, as well as offering agentic deep dives in our analysis itself. Snyk and Aikido are tools an enterprise security team or SMB platform team adopts. Rafter is built around the workflow of developers using AI coding assistants — the scanner meets the agent where the code is being written, rather than only at the PR. In fact, you don't need to know what a PR is to use Rafter, or sit in on a demo from a sales rep.

We don't yet match Snyk's vulnerability-database depth or Aikido's surface breadth — container, IaC, cloud posture, DAST. For an enterprise consolidating an AppSec program, they meet real needs but don't fully address evolving agentic workflows. For individuals and teams shipping AI-generated code who wants security that meets the agent halfway, that's the slot Rafter is built for.