Caution is built for teams running security-critical systems where trust alone is not enough. It grew out of our work at Distrust, a security consulting and open source R&D firm founded by Lance and Anton, focused on defending high-risk systems.

Through Distrust, we worked with hedge funds, custodians, Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchain teams, cloud platforms, and critical grid operators, helping secure systems responsible for more than $100B in assets.

Across these engagements, we saw a general lack of reliable visibility into what software was actually running in production systems, especially in real time. Mission-critical infrastructure was often operated as a black box, with limited ability to independently verify what was executing. That approach did not sit right with us. Verifiable compute offers a new way to use confidential compute with meaningful transparency and proof, especially where trust matters most.

Companies needed better tools. They needed reproducible builds, verifiable deployment, cryptographic proof of running code, and stronger guarantees for enclave workloads.

So we built Caution.