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7AI vs ReliaQuest

7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop. ReliaQuest sells GreyMatter, an agentic AI security operations platform that allows security teams to detect, contain, investigate and respond to threats, regardless of the data source. CISO Tribune files both under AI SOC analysts. This page sets the two records side by side: what each sells, where it is based, who owns and funds it, the customers it names and its recent news, each fact numbered to its source.

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7AI vs ReliaQuest: Products, Customers and Funding Compared
7AI7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop.7ai.comReliaQuestReliaQuest sells GreyMatter, an agentic AI security operations platform that allows security teams to detect, contain, investigate and respond to threats, regardless of the data source.reliaquest.com
What it sells
  • 7AI Federated SIEM[5]Connects security sources, including a SIEM and security data lake already in use, and runs detection against them.
  • Investigations[3][4][18]AI agents investigate every alert to a conclusion rather than sampling.
  • Detection[4][5][9]Connects detection sources, maps coverage to attacker techniques, and flags noisy rules.
  • Response[4][5][6][15]Recommends containment actions and runs them against the customer's existing tools.
  • Threat Hunting[5][8]Hunts from a plain-language prompt or from connected threat intelligence feeds.
  • PLAID ELITE[3][4][13][22]Adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock.
  • GreyMatter[1][2][3][4][6][7][8][9][10][11]An agentic AI security operations platform for security teams to detect, contain, investigate and respond to threats.
  • GreyMatter Detect[6][9]Centralizes all created rule logic in a library from any author.
  • Universal Translator[2][3]A patented way to normalize data collected from any source or technology.
Categories
Headquarters
Boston, United States[2][22]Not stated on its pages
Founded
2024[2]Not stated on its pages
Ownership and funding
Privately held[6][21]Not stated on its pages
Named customers
Not stated on its pagesNot stated on its pages
Recent news
  • October 29, 20267AI announced that its Technology Alliance Program has reached 200 integrations.[19]
  • October 28, 20267AI announced it was named to Fortune Magazine's 2027 Cyber 60 list of venture-backed cybersecurity startups for the second consecutive year.[20]
  • July 27, 20267AI launched two offerings, Federated SIEM and 7AI Build.[11]
  • July 23, 20267AI launched a global alliance program aimed at partners.[10]
  • June 1, 20267AI launched three capabilities: Threat Hunt, Threat Intel Hunt and Skills.[14]
  • August 14, 2026Florida State Athletics named ReliaQuest its official jersey patch partner for men's basketball starting with the 2026-27 season.[12]
G2 and Gartner Peer Insights
  • G2: Not stated on its pages
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
  • G2: listed, seen November 10, 2026[13]
  • Gartner Peer Insights: Not stated on its pages
Who it fits
From its own pages, 7AI sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence. 7AI says the platform is shaped to fit a customer's existing tools, workflows, and appetite for risk. Its pages say that enterprises sit at different points in their relationship with the SIEM, and the Federated SIEM service lets a team keep a SIEM, move logs into a security data lake, or run fully federated. Teams can run 7AI directly, have 7AI run security operations for them around the clock, or build their own offering on it. Partners can build services on the 7AI foundation.ReliaQuest describes enterprises that adopt tools to keep up with evolving demands. ReliaQuest addresses organizations that manage security across multiple business units. ReliaQuest describes multicloud and multi-SIEM environments as ones that GreyMatter covers. ReliaQuest addresses organizations that run both OT and IT environments, including threats targeting critical infrastructure. ReliaQuest sells GreyMatter for environments that connect sources like SIEM, EDR, network security, and cloud tools.
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September 27, 2026November 6, 2026

Where they overlap

  • AI SOC analysts is the primary category of both 7AI and ReliaQuest.

Where they differ, field by field

  • 7AI is also filed under SIEM. ReliaQuest is also filed under External attack surface management, Digital risk protection and SOAR and security automation.
  • 7AI lists 7AI Federated SIEM, Investigations, Detection, Response, Threat Hunting and 1 more. ReliaQuest lists GreyMatter, GreyMatter Detect and Universal Translator.
  • 7AI is headquartered in Boston, United States.
  • 7AI was founded in 2024.
  • 7AI is privately held.

How they differ

CISO Tribune files both 7AI and ReliaQuest under AI SOC analysts as the primary category. 7AI sells an agentic security platform that covers detection, investigation, response and hunting as one system. ReliaQuest sells GreyMatter, an agentic AI security operations platform for detecting, containing, investigating and responding to threats regardless of the data source.

On data, 7AI Federated SIEM connects the SIEM and security data lake a customer already runs, and lets a customer keep its SIEM, move high-volume logs into a data lake, or run fully federated. ReliaQuest says GreyMatter detects threats wherever data lives and normalizes collected data with its patented Universal Translator. ReliaQuest also describes GreyMatter as covering multicloud and multi-SIEM environments, and as integrating OT technologies such as Armis, Dragos and Nozomi. 7AI offers several ways to engage, including running the platform directly, fully managed operations through PLAID ELITE, or building on it with 7AI Build.

7AI is headquartered in Boston, was founded in 2024, and is privately held. ReliaQuest is headquartered in Tampa, FL, and states a valuation of over $3.4 billion and over 1,000 customers. On October 29, 2026, 7AI announced that its Technology Alliance Program had reached 200 integrations. On July 27, 2026, 7AI launched Federated SIEM and 7AI Build. On August 14, 2026, ReliaQuest announced that Florida State Athletics named it official jersey patch partner for men's basketball starting with the 2026-27 season.

What it sells: 7AI

What 7AI Federated SIEM does[5]
7AI Federated SIEM connects security sources, including the SIEM and security data lake a customer already runs, and runs detection against them wherever they live. On sources 7AI collects, rules evaluate events as they arrive. On sources the customer keeps itself, rules run as scheduled queries against the data in place. Federated Search returns results normalized to OCSF.
What Investigations does[3][4][18]
A 7AI investigation is the end to end work an AI agent swarm performs on a single alert. Each agent step shows the agent's mission, the tools it ran, the exact request and response, and the conclusion it drew. Every investigation includes a copilot grounded in that investigation's own evidence.
What Detection does[4][5][9]
7AI connects every detection source the customer runs, maps coverage to the techniques attackers actually use, finds the rules drowning the team in false positives, and routes each detection to the right outcome. 7AI maps detections to MITRE ATT&CK techniques and scores coverage tactic by tactic.
What Response does[4][5][6][15]
7AI recommends the exact actions to contain a threat, runs them against the tools the customer already owns, and tracks every case from open to closed. The customer approves what executes. Built-in workflows cover actions like isolating a device, revoking sessions, resetting passwords, and quarantining files.
What Threat Hunting does[5][8]
A user describes a technique, behavior, or threat report in plain language, and 7AI builds the plan, investigates the environment, and returns a verdict in minutes. A threat intelligence feed can be connected to launch hunts automatically. 7AI saves each hunt with its plan, its findings, and its verdict.
What PLAID ELITE does[3][4][13][22]
PLAID is the 7AI operating model: People-Led, AI-Driven. PLAID ELITE adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock.

What it sells: ReliaQuest

What GreyMatter does[1][2][3][4][6][7][8][9][10][11]
GreyMatter includes 6 agentic Teammates that use hundreds of agent skills and AI tools to work toward an objective, not just tasks. GreyMatter detects threats wherever data lives, whether in the cloud, on the endpoint, inside a SIEM, directly at the source, or in transit. GreyMatter unifies detection, response, and visibility across a multicloud and multi-SIEM environment.
What GreyMatter Detect does[6][9]
GreyMatter Detect centralizes all created rule logic in its library from any author. GreyMatter Detect allows customers to test and validate detections before and after deployment and monitors their performance continuously.

Questions about 7AI and ReliaQuest

What do 7AI and ReliaQuest sell?
7AI sells 7AI Federated SIEM, Investigations, Detection, Response, Threat Hunting and 1 more. ReliaQuest sells GreyMatter, GreyMatter Detect and Universal Translator.
Are 7AI and ReliaQuest in the same category?
Yes. AI SOC analysts is the primary category of both on CISO Tribune.
Where are 7AI and ReliaQuest headquartered?
7AI is headquartered in Boston, United States.
When were 7AI and ReliaQuest founded?
7AI was founded in 2024.
Who owns 7AI and ReliaQuest?
7AI is privately held.
Who are 7AI and ReliaQuest sold to?
From its own pages, 7AI sells mainly to security operations teams that run many tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence. 7AI says the platform is shaped to fit a customer's existing tools, workflows, and appetite for risk. ReliaQuest describes enterprises that adopt tools to keep up with evolving demands.
What have 7AI and ReliaQuest announced recently?
October 29, 2026: 7AI announced that its Technology Alliance Program has reached 200 integrations. August 14, 2026: Florida State Athletics named ReliaQuest its official jersey patch partner for men's basketball starting with the 2026-27 season.

About 7AI

7AI sells an agentic security platform that runs the whole security operations lifecycle as one system: detect, investigate, respond, and hunt. 7AI says its agents do the non human work, with humans on the loop. Alerts arrive from across the customer's stack, however many tools the customer runs. 7AI categorizes, groups, triages, and reaches a determination on each one, escalating only what needs a person. 7AI ingests from tools across endpoint, identity, cloud, email, network, and threat intelligence.[3][4]

7AI investigates every alert to a conclusion rather than sampling. A 7AI investigation is the end to end work an AI agent swarm performs on a single alert. For each agent step, a reader can see the agent's mission, the tools it ran, the exact request and response, and the conclusion it drew. Every investigation includes a copilot grounded in that investigation's own evidence. 7AI can guide an analyst to a pre approved action or take orchestrated response automatically, with humans on the loop.[15]

After an investigation reaches a verdict, 7AI recommends and runs the specific actions needed to contain and remediate the threat. 7AI recommends the exact actions to contain a threat, runs them against the tools the customer already owns, and tracks every case from open to closed. The customer approves what executes. Response actions run through the tools the customer already owns across endpoint, identity, email, and cloud. Built-in workflows cover common actions like isolating a device, revoking sessions, resetting passwords, and quarantining files, and custom workflows extend to anything the team needs. Teams can compose response in a visual designer with no code required. 7AI builds response automation into the platform and connects to the tools the customer owns rather than replacing them.

7AI Federated SIEM connects security sources, including the SIEM and security data lake a customer already runs, and runs detection against them wherever they live. A customer can keep its SIEM and connect it as a source, move high-volume logs into a security data lake, or run fully federated. On sources 7AI collects, rules evaluate events as they arrive. On sources the customer keeps itself, rules run as scheduled queries against the data in place. Federated Search queries connected log sources and returns results normalized to OCSF. 7AI Federated SIEM is generally available. Federated SIEM is the data foundation on which the rest of the platform runs, feeding detection, investigation, response, and threat hunting.[5]

7AI connects every detection source the customer runs, maps coverage to the techniques attackers actually use, finds the rules drowning the team in false positives, and routes each detection to the right outcome. 7AI maps detections to the MITRE ATT&CK techniques attackers use and scores coverage tactic by tactic. 7AI connects to detection sources already run across identity, endpoint, cloud, email, and SIEM. 7AI watches how every rule performs and flags the ones generating false positives at scale. For threat hunting, a user describes a technique, behavior, or threat report in plain language, and 7AI builds the plan, investigates the environment, and returns a verdict in minutes. A threat intelligence feed can be connected to launch hunts automatically. 7AI saves each hunt with its plan, its findings, and its verdict so it can be re-run or shared.[1][4][8][9]

7AI continuously sweeps the customer's environment, scores posture against the frameworks the customer reports on, and ranks exactly what to fix next. 7AI scores posture with coverage mapped to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 by control family. Skills let a customer's team define exactly how 7AI investigates, hunts, and responds, and a skill is written in plain language as a simple document. Enterprise Insights is the institutional knowledge 7AI draws on during every investigation, such as which domains are sanctioned and how the environment is wired. Skills shape how 7AI investigates, Workflows automate the actions it takes, and Insights give 7AI the context it needs about the environment.[7][16][17]

7AI describes several ways to engage. The customer's team can run 7AI directly, with dedicated AI Security Engineers who configure the agents to the environment. 7AI can run the customer's security operations around the clock as fully managed security operations. PLAID is the 7AI operating model: People-Led, AI-Driven, and PLAID ELITE adds fully managed security operations from 7AI's team, around the clock. With 7AI Build, customers and partners construct new harnesses, workflows, and entire services on the 7AI foundation.[3][18]

7AI says it builds a living model of each environment's context, and that dedicated AI Security Engineers seed that model at deployment while 9M+ investigations run since February 2025 compound it. 7AI also says that customers set the guardrails, define what agents act on versus escalate, and lead strategy. 7AI says a year in production at Fortune 500 scale has meant millions of investigations run and more than a million analyst hours handed back to security teams.[3][4][7][18]

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7AI full record

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ReliaQuest full record

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