Choose the security tool that fits.
Data-backed insights, your own criteria, confidence in the choice.
- A shortlist no vendor can pay for
- No vendor calls until you're ready
- A decision you can stand behind
Why Picari?
Built for the ones using the tool.
When you're choosing a tool for your team, the vendors with the biggest budgets usually reach you first. Picari starts with your problem instead. It shows you who fits based on what each product can actually do, then lets you test that privately, on your own criteria, before any vendor knows you're looking.
Start a briefBuilding our security stack from scratch, Picari turned weeks of vendor research into a single afternoon of structured briefing, and a scored, defensible shortlist in under 48 hours.
Eoghan McKeeHead of Security, SquadsI found it useful because it saved me hours of manual search or asking peers and I have not seen ChatGPT or Gemini do a good job at it (I tried!).
Melanie MolinaStaff Product Security Engineer, Tools for HumanityI get roughly fifteen cybersecurity and AI vendor pitches a day. Most are a bad fit. A few are genuinely interesting, and I'd never know which without spending an hour a day finding out.
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Mike ReaveyCISO, Electronic ArtsHow it works
Choose your next security tool with confidence.
Tell us what you need and get matched with vendors that actually fit, using data-backed insights that can't be bought.
Brief: the Picari market view behind a constraints card. The scenario, secure how 3,000 employees use LLMs and AI agents, sets each constraint in turn and the count falls: 3,000+ products, 199 in AI security, 16 matched, 14 cloud-delivered, 6 with SOC 2, 3 that integrate with Okta.
01 · Brief
A guided brief asks what a good analyst would, then turns your answers into a brief: category, scale, environment, compliance, timeline and must-haves.
- Category worked out for you
- Must-haves set before any demo
- Private until you invite vendors
02 · Shortlist
Get a shortlist tailored to your brief, with each vendor's strengths and gaps laid out against the criteria you care about. Scores are based on what vendors can prove, not what they promise, and if a vendor hasn't shared the data, you'll know. You'll also see why the others didn't make it.
- A shortlist built around your brief
- Strengths and gaps for every vendor
- A clear reason for every one ruled out
03 · Evaluate
Build it around your own criteria, bring your team in, and invite vendors only when you're ready.
Each vendor answers in its own workspace, and you finish with a documented decision.
- Your criteria, your weighting
- One workspace per project
- A documented decision
Why now
Finding vendors isn't the hard part anymore. Proving which one works for you is.
Demos run on the vendor's terms. AI answers shift every time you ask. And getting to a decision still means an intro call, a demo call and a scoping call before you've seen anything useful.
- 60+ categories, with capabilities that blur into each other
- Hundreds of products in AI security alone, and counting
- Every demo built to show the best side of the product
Picari helps you make the right decision before the noise takes over.
You set the requirements, vendors respond, and the whole evaluation lives in one place.
Browse 60+ categories- Nobody pays to rank.
Vendors can't buy a place on your shortlist. Fit is the only thing that moves it.
- Same brief, same shortlist.
The ranking engine is code, not a model, so the answer doesn't change every time you ask. AI writes the explanations, never the order.
- Every score shows its evidence.
You see exactly what was checked. Where a vendor hasn't provided the data, we flag it, so you know what to ask in the evaluation.
- Vendors see nothing until you invite them.
Access is set per vendor and per invite, and you can remove it at any time.
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Start a briefFAQs.
Start a briefWhat is Picari?
Picari is a buyer-led evaluation platform for security tools. Security teams describe the problem they need to solve, get a ranked shortlist that vendors can't pay to influence, and run a private evaluation on their own criteria.
Who is Picari for?
Anyone choosing a security tool for their team, especially the people who will use it every day: security engineers, incident responders, GRC and IT security.
Do I need to know which category I'm looking for?
No. Describe the problem in your own words, or start with a vendor you've heard of. Picari works out the category and shows you who fits.
Will vendors know I'm looking?
No. Vendors see nothing until you invite them into your evaluation.
How is this different from asking an AI tool?
Picari's ranking is code, not a model, so the same brief always gives the same shortlist, and every score is tied to evidence you can check.
Is Picari free?
Yes, Picari is free for security teams. Vendors pay a flat fee for each evaluation they join, and that never affects rankings.