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An enterprise-level intelligence platform that helps organizations see global risk sooner and act on it faster. Secure by design, multi-tenant, and built to plug into the systems security teams already run.
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Architecture, workflows, and screens mapped before code, so scope and cost are clear up front.
Short cycles with working demos at every step, so you see progress and steer it.
Deployment, monitoring, training, and ongoing improvements after go-live.
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From custom software to intelligent systems, we deliver practical solutions that solve real business problems, with the security and reliability enterprise teams expect.
Tailored applications, internal tools, and platforms designed around your exact needs and workflows.
Streamline workflows, eliminate manual work, and increase efficiency across your business.
AI-powered tools that turn your data into real-world business intelligence.
Connect your software, services, and data into one seamless ecosystem.
From early concepts and prototypes to production-ready software and ongoing support.
Our founder has run security operations and fusion centers for Fortune 100 companies and government intelligence missions, including the NSA. We build the tools those teams actually need.
Real-time collection, triage, and alerting dashboards for SOC and GSOC teams.
Integrations with mass-notification platforms like AlertMedia, Everbridge, and Ontic.
Case management, reporting, and analyst tooling that shortens time to decision.
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A look at the products in development at Keasling Engineering. We share enough to show the work, and keep the rest for our partners.
Highground Global Intelligence is an enterprise SaaS platform that brings real-time global risk monitoring, threat intelligence, cybersecurity operations, and investigations into one secure command environment.
It's built by an operator who has run fusion centers and security operations for Fortune 100 companies and government intelligence missions, for the teams who protect people, facilities, and operations around the world.
A map-first Global Risk Map with a live incident rail, live monitoring decks, travel security, country profiles, and alert management with two-person approval.
Threat actor dossiers, campaigns, competing attributions with independent review, relationship graphs, and finished intelligence products.
A Cyber Command dashboard, full alert lifecycle, incident response, verified remediation, detection rules, threat hunting, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping.
Staged case management, identity review, evidence with chain of custody and export controls, leads, hypotheses, and link analysis.
One command center across every workspace you can access, with shift handovers, executive sitreps, response tasks, and facility drill-downs.
A drag-and-drop Automation Studio, approval gates, kill switches, and Ask Highground, an AI assistant that answers from your own records.
Selected views from the Alpha V9 build. All organizations and people shown are fictional demo data.
An estimate of Highground as it stands in Alpha V9 (October 2026), based on the size of the build, comparable market pricing, and private SaaS valuation multiples.
About 12–16 person-years of work. A team of 9–10 would need 14–18 months to reach the current build.
Pre-revenue sale of the platform and IP to a strategic buyer, typically 25–50% of replacement cost.
$2.4M–$3M in annual recurring revenue at 4–10× ARR, depending on growth and retention.
| Backend & data engineers | 3 |
| Frontend & mapping engineers | 2 |
| Security & DevOps engineer | 1 |
| QA / test automation engineer | 1 |
| Product designer | 1 |
| Product manager & intelligence SME | 1–2 |
| Total team | 9–10 |
Based on a fully loaded US cost of about $225K–$250K per senior engineer per year.
| Lines of application code | ~120,000 |
| Lines of automated tests | ~27,000 |
| Database tables | 209 |
| Automated tests passing | 1,339 |
| Independent security review rounds | 2 |
| Integration providers mapped | 51 |
Figures from the Alpha V9 build and its implementation report.
Priced against enterprise intelligence platforms, where single-module contracts start around $15K–$60K a year and full enterprise suites run $250K to $500K or more.
Real-Time Intelligence and Highground Command for a single security team.
Adds Threat Intelligence, Investigations, and Automation Studio.
All four workspaces, every module, multi-region teams, and priority support.
At a blended $120K–$150K per client, 20 enterprise clients is $2.4M–$3M in annual recurring revenue. These are planning estimates, not a formal valuation or an offer to sell.
We take on a small number of client builds alongside our own products.
Self-taught engineer, security operations leader, and founder of Keasling Engineering. I build software for the kind of high-stakes environments I've spent my career working in.
I grew up in Houston, Texas, taking things apart to see how they worked and teaching myself whatever I needed to put them back together. That curiosity never went away. Today I live in Austin, where Keasling Engineering is based.
I've spent more than ten years in intelligence and security operations across government and the private sector. I've supported national security and counterterrorism missions, including work as a contractor with the National Security Agency, worked alongside law enforcement and federal task forces, and led security operations and fusion centers for Fortune 100 companies including Tesla and Dell Technologies.
That work taught me what happens when information moves too slowly, when tools don't talk to each other, and when teams are forced to fight their software instead of the problem in front of them.
I'm a self-taught engineer and coder. I learned to build because the tools I needed didn't exist yet. Along the way I've helped develop, integrate, and scale enterprise-level SaaS programs inside Fortune 100 companies and government intelligence operations, from internal dispatch systems to global alerting platforms.
I hold multiple degrees and specializations, but the most valuable education came from shipping software that real teams relied on, under real pressure.
I love technology, and I love security operations. Keasling Engineering is where the two meet. Every product we build, including our flagship platform Highground Global Intelligence, starts from the same question: what would make this team faster, safer, and more confident?
The best software disappears into the work. People stop thinking about the tool and start thinking about the mission.Chris Keasling, Founder
Work directly with me from first call to launch.
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