15 Years of Solving Hard Problems
You can't skip eras, but you can compress them by learning from those who've already made the journey.
RedHold exists because we discovered something most companies haven't figured out yet: AI doesn't just help you work faster; it changes what's possible.
Over 15+ years, our founders and team have delivered AI, cloud, and security outcomes across Fortune 100 enterprises spanning financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and more: 150+ engagements across their careers, scaling cloud security from $15M to $800M ARR, delivering $1B+ in cloud transformations, and filing 11 patents. The products we built along the way are proof of that capability, not the other way around.
But the real insight was this: by rebuilding everything around AI (engineering, security, product development, go-to-market, documentation, operations) we achieved 15x output. The same product that took 3 people and 6 months in 2011 took 2 people and 6 weeks in 2025, with 5x the capabilities.
The Same Product, Two Eras Apart
YBIntel v1 (2011)
- Team3 people
- Timeline6 months to launch
- ScopeBasic data aggregation
- StackDjango, pre-cloud hosting
- AIZero AI involvement
- ImpactMonths to first traction
YBIntel v4 (2025)
- Team2 people
- Timeline6 weeks to launch
- Scope5x the feature set
- StackNext.js + FastAPI on AWS/Azure + AI
- AIAI in architecture, code, testing, GTM, docs
- Impact+12% revenue in 8 weeks
Fewer people. 4x faster. 5x the product. Measurable revenue in weeks.
The Four Eras
Our journey spans four eras of AI maturity: from light automation (2011) through AI-assisted builds, AI-native products, and into agentic operations (2025-2026). Each era taught us something the previous one couldn't, and the products we built along the way are the proof.
Read the full framework in our Playbook15 Years of Experience. Tools Built From the Trenches.
Every engagement taught us something. Every tool we built made the next engagement faster.
YBIntel v1
2011The benchmark. 3 people, 6 months, Django, pre-cloud. What building looked like before AI.
HTCD
2023 – 2025Shaan's pre-RedHold venture. Validated AI-assisted product development and gained revenue, but the company did not meet its targets.
YBIntel v4
2024 – 2025Same product, rebuilt with AI. 2 people, 6 weeks, 5x capabilities. +12% revenue within 8 weeks.
ZeroCRM
2025AI-native CRM. 2 people, concept to production in under 14 weeks. 60%+ manual data entry eliminated.
CloudDiscovery
202565+ AI agents, 16 security domains. Manual assessment compressed by 98%.
CloudTwin
2025Full-stack disaster recovery. Restores identity, network, policy (everything traditional backup misses).
Diagrams.so
2026200+ users in week 1, zero marketing spend. 60-second architecture diagrams from plain English.
Secure Cloud Foundation
2026Enterprise cloud platform deployed at Fortune 100 scale. 70+ IaC modules, 50+ policies, account provisioning under 15 minutes.
Our Team
Shaan
Founder & CEO
The operator who scaled a cloud security business from $15M to $800M ARR. 150+ enterprise engagements across Fortune 100 companies delivering $1B+ in cloud transformations spanning financial services, healthcare, life sciences, and more. 11 patents filed. Speaker at Black Hat and AWS re:Invent. Founded RedHold because the productivity advantage of AI should not be reserved for tech companies.
Soham
Engineering & Product
Two-time Google Summer of Code contributor turned AI-native builder. Former PwC cybersecurity. Built 4 AI-native products in 12 months. On a mission to show every professional how to multiply their output with AI.
How we work together
Shaan brings enterprise strategy, security architecture, and Fortune 100 delivery. Soham brings engineering velocity, product innovation, and AI-native build methodology. Together with a focused team of engineers, they drive the playbook behind everything we ship.
The AI-Native Company Model
A focused team delivering outcomes that traditionally require 10-20x the headcount.
Outcome-based, never hourly
Every engagement scoped to deliverables and results.
Services drive everything. Tools make them faster.
Every engagement reveals a bottleneck. We build a tool to eliminate it. CloudDiscovery came from slow assessments. CloudTwin came from incomplete DR. That cycle means our services get better with every project.
Profitable by design, not by fundraise
Built on revenue, not runway. AI gives us 3-15x speed. Enterprise outcomes from a focused team, without the overhead or misaligned incentives.
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