The LimaCharlie Manifesto: Security for an Autonomous Future

Cybersecurity is standing at an inflection point. The proliferation of agentic AI and LLMs does not signal a gradual shift, but a radical transformation. 

The security tools, assumptions, and architectures of the last twenty years can no longer keep pace with the challenges and threats of today.

AI changed the rules. 

Attackers have quickly adapted. 

Defenders still operate on inflexible foundations built for a bygone era.

Our industry must evolve or forever accept a weaker position on an asymmetric battleground.

LimaCharlie provides the architecture needed to rapidly evolve security operations. We are not selling a product or a feature. 

We offer a flexible foundation for building, scaling, and integrating security in an autonomous future.

Three critical principles

We believe security must reclaim its architectural freedom. Security operations constrained by their infrastructure cannot keep pace with adversaries who can pick the best tools for the job. This is especially true now, when developments in AI can rapidly change the rules of the game. 

To replicate the freedom of choice adversaries enjoy, security operations must have three things.

Transparency

Visibility is not a feature. It is the precondition for trust, automation, and defense. If something in your environment is opaque or invisible, it is insecure. Black-box, vendor-controlled solutions are an exercise in faith, not security.

Scalability

Security operations must scale like infrastructure, not like a procurement cycle. Modern threats move and compound at cloud speed. Defenders will lose if they move slowly.

Unopinionated Design

Security should focus on the mission, not accommodating vendor capability and compliance. Expert operators should integrate the tools they need, not just those contracts allow. Freedom in architecture is freedom in action.

LimaCharlie views these principles as non-negotiable.

They are the philosophical commitments that enable us to offer others true autonomy in security operations.

A cybersecurity hyperscaler built for agentic workflows

LimaCharlie is not a platform in the traditional sense. 

We are a security hyperscaler, a cloud-native substrate engineered for both human and agentic operators.

Our SecOps Cloud Platform (SCP) delivers security primitives, integrable building blocks to control, scale, access, and automate your security stack. It gives organizations the freedom to build security on their own terms.

Security primitives are to SecOps what cloud primitives are to infrastructure: essential, open, composable building blocks. 

The SCP lets operators customize data collection, D&R, integrations, ecosystem processes, and more, via modular, vendor-neutral primitives. Tools come and go. Primitives endure. Our Agentic SecOps Workspace (ASW) extends control of security primitives to AI agents. It allows your preferred LLM to perceive, decide, and execute in your environment using the exact same APIs as human analysts.

This is different from the advisory, log-parsing, chatbot-style AI marketed as ‘AI SOCs.’ Their tools assist, they do not operate. They suggest, but do not act.

With LimaCharlie, AI is an accountable, observable, teachable, security operator.  It functions safely in LimaCharlie because every action is visible, controlled, and auditable. 

Trust through transparency, not based upon promises or assumptions.

The future is now

Security is fundamentally changing.

Threat actors wield AI without hesitation, bureaucracy, or legacy infrastructure holding them back.

If defenders cannot match that speed, they will lose.

Not for lack of skill, but because they are structurally outpaced.

Most organizations sense this shift. Yet they still layer AI on top of architectures that were never designed for autonomy. They're spending $20,000 a month on AI capabilities crippled by foundations that cost them far more in missed potential.

The result is predictable. Their AI will operate with fragmented context, limited control, and severely constrained potential.

LimaCharlie represents the opposite philosophy.

We built the open foundation first.

We built it to scale and engineered it to evolve.

It’s why AI on LimaCharlie can do what AI elsewhere cannot:

perceive the environment clearly, act with precision, and scale with the business.

Autonomy with guardrails.

Innovation without lock-in.

Anticipate disruption

Technology will continue to change.

The rise of LLMs is simply the latest innovation to cause a seismic shift in security operations.

Others will come.

Most vendors will respond to each change by rebuilding, again and again. They will ask customers to migrate, reintegrate, reinvest, and sign new contracts.

We will not.

LimaCharlie’s open, API-first, cloud-native security platform doesn’t fear disruption, it absorbs it.

Every breakthrough becomes another capability you can integrate.

Every industry shift becomes another tool your operators (human or AI) can wield.

SecOps at AI Speed

Analysis and execution are taking place in environments at AI-speed.

Not someday, not hypothetically, but right now.

This means the future of an organization’s security posture rests upon one question. Did they build their operations on foundations that enable autonomy, or those that resist it? 

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, agentic AI can execute dozens of function calls in an environment. Adversarial AI will not be stopped at human remediation speeds. 

The writing is on the wall.

Defenders must be free to build the systems they need, integrate the tools they trust, and deploy AIs that elevate their performance.

LimaCharlie stands for a future where security evolves as fast as innovation itself.

We engineered our architecture for it.

Welcome to the new era of SecOps.