CrowdRecon
Before every report, there is recon. Turn that data into intelligence.
CrowdRecon turns real-world hacker reconnaissance into continuous, actionable insights. It helps security teams understand real researcher behavior across their attack surface, while giving researchers new ways to be recognized and rewarded beyond accepted vulnerability reports.
Make your recon count
Recon is often where valuable security work happens before a report exists. But today, much of that work disappears if it does not become an accepted report. CrowdRecon gives researchers a clearer way to make useful reconnaissance visible, valuable, and potentially rewardable.
Make your recon skills visible
You spend time mapping assets, testing assumptions, filtering noise, exploring paths, and deciding where to go next. That work can take days, weeks, or even months, but most of it is only recognized if it turns into an accepted vulnerability report.
Weeks of recon can go unseen
You can spend serious time on recon, only for it to go nowhere if it does not lead to an accepted report.
Useful signals get lost
Assets, paths, endpoints, and patterns can create value for customers, but that value is rarely captured, used, or recognized.
Recon effort rarely gets rewarded
Recon does the real work of shaping what gets found. But unless it turns into an accepted report, it doesn't get rewarded.
What you find along the way finally counts
CrowdRecon gives you a structured way to submit useful recon, track its progress, and get recognized when it creates value.
Give your recon a new home
Log useful discoveries and context in a structured way, instead of letting valuable work disappear.
Track your recon logs
See your submitted logs by company and follow how they move through the review process.
Get rewarded for quality
High-quality recon can lead to recognition, reputation, leaderboard visibility, and potential rewards.
How your recon creates value
CrowdRecon creates a continuous loop where every useful recon contribution has the potential to build on the value. As hackers share what they discover, validate, or rule out, that context helps others focus their effort, creates clearer signals for customers, and gives high-quality recon more chances to be recognized.
Capture
Log useful recon as you explore: assets, endpoints, paths, patterns, and context that could help a customer or another researcher understand what is worth a closer look.
Validate
Your recon is reviewed for quality, relevance, and usefulness, so strong contributions can stand out even when they do not become a vulnerability report.
Share
Validated recon becomes useful context: helping customers see what has been explored, and making your contribution.
Incentivize
High-quality recon can build recognition, reputation, leaderboard visibility, and potential rewards, creating a loop where better contributions lead to better opportunities for hackers.
Get rewarded beyond reports
CrowdRecon gives trusted hackers more ways to be recognized for useful reconnaissance, not only accepted vulnerability reports.
Direct rewards for validated recon
Get rewarded when your submitted recon is reviewed and accepted as useful by the customer.
Leaderboard and recognition
Earn points for high-quality recon contributions and build visibility through company or global leaderboards.
Kickback from future vulnerabilities
If your validated recon helps lead to an accepted vulnerability later, you may receive a share of the bounty.
Frequently asked questions
CrowdRecon captures what you found, checked, or ruled out, structured enough to be useful, without needing the how behind it. It's a way to get credit for genuine contribution and better context so you can spend your time where it counts.
Exactly where they are. Reports remain the main way you earn. This adds new paths for the recon that happens around them.
Validated recon logs may qualify for rewards depending on the program, including direct payouts, leaderboard points, or future bounty kickbacks if your recon helps lead to an accepted vulnerability.
Join the waitlist
Join CrowdRecon early: Get access to the private beta and see how recon becomes actionable signals for your security team.
CrowdRecon recognizes that the community not only finds vulnerabilities, but it also creates context, discovers hidden surfaces, shows where attention is forming, and helps customers understand how their external environment is interpreted by real researchers. This is an important step in how we think about the future of human-led exposure validation.
Radu Voloaga
Senior Product Manager
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