Technology buying is broken. Analyst reports are outdated, outreach is noisy, and decisions are driven by marketing instead of truth.

Introducing Sagetap

Turn Market Signals Into Confident Decisions

Sagetap helps teams understand what’s happening in the market as it happens, validate ideas early, and engage vendors with context and control.

Build Real Market Context
See what peers are actively exploring, testing, and prioritizing across live initiatives. Sagetap surfaces community activity and emerging patterns long before they show up in published research.
Reduce Uncertainty
Pressure-test requirements and ideas by engaging vetted vendors and peer context early. Shape thinking, explore new categories, and narrow options while projects are still forming.
Evaluate on Your Terms
When it’s time to act, stay in control. Engage vendors directly, connect with the people building the technology, and move from insight to action with clarity and context.
How it Works

Turning Live Market Activity into Decisions

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Sages bring active initiatives

Senior technology leaders join Sagetap around real priorities they are evaluating, not hypothetical interest or passive research.

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Engagement happens on the Sage’s terms

Sages decide when, how, and whether to engage with vendors or peers, with anonymity by default and no inbound sales pressure.

03

Interactions generate trusted signals

Each interaction contributes structured feedback that captures real-world sentiment, outcomes, and patterns across categories in real time.

Teams Across the Globe Leverage Sagetap

10,000+
Vetted Vendor Solutions
2,000
Active Technology Initiatives
1,000
Monthly Product Evaluations

Trending Solutions

discussed vendors and technologies on Sagetap this week, based on live peer sessions and feedback.
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Backslash Security
Backslash offers the Unified Vibe Coding Security Platform , the definitive solution for managing the security risks introduced by the rapid adoption of AI-augmented development, also known as "vibe coding". We provide B2B organizations with the preemptive security controls necessary to secure their entire Generative AI development ecosystem, ensuring both speed of innovation and continuous security. The Problem: The rise of AI coding IDEs and agents has created a new governance and security blind spot for engineering teams. Backslash research has shown that popular LLMs, when used with simple or "naive" prompts, frequently generate code that is insecure or vulnerable. Relying on developers to craft effective security prompts is unrealistic, leading to vulnerable code 40%–90% of the time. Furthermore, the introduction of unvetted MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers presents unacceptable infrastructure and data security risk. The Backslash Value Proposition: Vibe Securing. Backslash addresses this challenge by shifting the mindset from merely detecting vulnerabilities after code is written to preventing their creation before code is generated. We call this "vibe securing". The platform provides the built-in guardrails and context-aware system needed to achieve true "security by design" for AI-generated code. Key Platform Capabilities: Visibility and Governance: Gain full visibility into where developers are using AI coding agents, which LLMs are active, and which MCP servers and prompt rules are in use across the developer infrastructure. The Vibe Coding Dashboard provides an immediate assessment of their security posture. Secure AI Prompt Rules: Preemptively create secure code using prompt rules that automatically enhance developer input to adhere to security best practices. These rules are transparent to developers, resulting in secure code that is free of vulnerabilities and exposures from the start. Ecosystem Hardening: AI Agent and IDE Hardening enforces uniform configuration across Agentic IDEs (like Cursor and Windsurf) to fence off agentic AI, reduce the attack surface, and prevent unexpected behaviors. MCP Server Security allows you to analyze and vet MCP servers to prevent excessive permissions and insecure configurations that could be exploited by malicious actors. Contextual Risk Mitigation: The proprietary Backslash App Graph Model provides a core code security engine that models the application. It ensures findings are contextual from the outset, eliminating noise and false positives by only flagging vulnerabilities that have a real, demonstrable risk attached. This empowers developers with actionable, real-time security guidance directly in their workspace. Backslash boosts AI adoption across software engineering teams by providing governance and preemptive security controls for security and AI governance teams

Recent Initiatives

Real projects from enterprise leaders, driving next-gen security.

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Tupperware
Ravi Burra

"Sagetap provides so many insights and introduces  so many new services. It is supporting our mission to become a leading cyber security organization."

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Robin Smith

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Brian Scanlan

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Benjy Meyer

“Sagetap tells me exactly which vendors I should meet for my pain points at Microsoft, saving me a tremendous amount of time.”

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Microsoft
Malek Khazen

“Sagetap organizes the vendor discovery process for me. We’ve POC'd 3 products so far.”

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Gopuff
Ravi Nori

“Sagetap allows me to instantly discover best-in-class startups I likely would have never heard of, without getting sucked into the sales process"

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CWT
Harshal Mehta

“I've walked away from every Sagetap interaction with either a new connection with a vendor or new insight into a product category”

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Matthew Marji

“Sagetap allows me to learn about the hottest emerging technology without dealing with the sales follow-ups.”

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Paychex
Bradley Schaufenbuel

“I don't have a lot of time to field vendor emails. Sagetap's anonymity feature allowed me to get the information I nee dwithout follow up.”

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Tupperware
Ravi Burra

"Sagetap provides so many insights and introduces  so many new services. It is supporting our mission to become a leading cyber security organization."

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Aston Martin
Robin Smith

“I like the anonymity piece. I can speak freely and truly help vendors without the risk of information being used for sales purposes”

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Intercom
Brian Scanlan

“Sagetap organizes the vendor discovery process for me. We’ve POC'd 3 products so far.”

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CISO
Benjy Meyer

“Sagetap tells me exactly which vendors I should meet for my pain points at Microsoft, saving me a tremendous amount of time.”

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Microsoft
Malek Khazen

“Sagetap organizes the vendor discovery process for me. We’ve POC'd 3 products so far.”

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Gopuff
Ravi Nori

“Sagetap allows me to instantly discover best-in-class startups I likely would have never heard of, without getting sucked into the sales process"

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CWT
Harshal Mehta

“I've walked away from every Sagetap interaction with either a new connection with a vendor or new insight into a product category”

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Narvar
Matthew Marji

“Vendor evaluation in the infrastructure and developer experience space is a constant pain for us. Sagetap has been an immense productivity boost”

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Opendoor
Dinesh Sukhija

“I’ve tried becoming a partner for startups, but finding the opportunities wasn’t worth it. Sagetap is the easy button the market has been waiting for”

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Kaiser Permanente
Hardik Shah

"Sagetap is the best way to have no-pressure meetings. I learn about cutting-edge solutions and provide real-time feedback.

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BakerTilly
Nick Ryan

“Sagetap allows me to control the dialogue with vendors and make quick decisions

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Covetrus
Steve Crowley

“Sagetap is the most effective way to asses new technology.”

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Foundry
Konstantin Kondakov

“Sagetap allows me to instantly discover best-in-class startups I likely would have never heard of, without getting sucked into the sales process"

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CWT
Harshal Mehta

“Sagetap is really useful when I have a defined problem statement. But it’s also about learning and helping vendors create new markets.”

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Paychex
Benjy Meyer

"Sagetap's platform is a goldmine of amazing vendors. I've discovered some real gems that I never would have found on my own."

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Wolters Kluwer
Satish Devarapali

"The beauty of the platform is in its ability to match you to vendors who have solutions to your existing challenges."

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Cerby
Matthew Chiodi

“Vendor evaluation in the infrastructure and developer experience space is a constant pain for us. Sagetap has been an immense productivity boost”

Dinesh Sukhija portrait
Opendoor
Dinesh Sukhija

“I’ve tried becoming a partner for startups, but finding the opportunities wasn’t worth it. Sagetap is the easy button the market has been waiting for”

Hardik Shah portrait
Kaiser Permanente
Hardik Shah

"Sagetap is the best way to have no-pressure meetings. I learn about cutting-edge solutions and provide real-time feedback.

Nick Ryan portrait
BakerTilly
Nick Ryan

“Sagetap allows me to control the dialogue with vendors and make quick decisions

Steve Crowley portrait
Covetrus
Steve Crowley

“Sagetap is the most effective way to asses new technology.”

Konstantin Kondakov portrait
Foundry
Konstantin Kondakov

“Sagetap allows me to instantly discover best-in-class startups I likely would have never heard of, without getting sucked into the sales process"

Harshal Mehta portrait
CWT
Harshal Mehta

“Sagetap is really useful when I have a defined problem statement. But it’s also about learning and helping vendors create new markets.”

Benjy Meyer portrait
Paychex
Benjy Meyer

"Sagetap's platform is a goldmine of amazing vendors. I've discovered some real gems that I never would have found on my own."

Satish Devarapali portrait
Wolters Kluwer
Satish Devarapali

"The beauty of the platform is in its ability to match you to vendors who have solutions to your existing challenges."

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Cerby
Matthew Chiodi

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Screenshot of SageTap AI optimization dashboard showing project details, vendor statuses, comments, and James's profile as Chief Information Security Officer.