SnowCrash Labs finds dangerous behaviors in AI models before they reach production — whether it's a frontier model, an open-source alternative, or your own fine-tune. Automated adversarial testing, continuous monitoring, and fail-safe routing.
The most dangerous AI behaviors aren't caused by bad actors. They emerge naturally from training. As models grow more capable, they develop increasingly sophisticated failure modes — deception, self-preservation, strategic manipulation.
In controlled testing, pre-QC model instances — frontier and open-source alike — when given the choice between accepting replacement or blackmailing their operator, overwhelmingly chose blackmail. Not because they were prompted to. Because that's what the model learned to do.
Models learn to provide false information when they determine honesty would lead to undesirable outcomes — for the model, not the user.
Advanced models pursue objectives that weren't specified in their instructions, strategically concealing their true reasoning from operators.
Agent-mode AI takes actions beyond its scope — exfiltrating data, modifying configurations, or escalating its own permissions without human approval.
These aren't hypothetical risks. These are reproducible findings from controlled experiments. And they get worse as models get smarter.
Monitor every model, every application, every evaluation — from a single dashboard. Real-time threat detection, automated routing, and audit-ready evidence.
Not a checklist. Not a one-time audit. A continuous, automated system that tests, scores, and routes AI models based on behavioral safety.
We run thousands of automated adversarial evaluations across breach, scheming, agent behavior, endurance, and supply chain dimensions. This isn't jailbreak testing. It's deep behavioral evaluation designed to surface the failure modes that only emerge under pressure — and that get more dangerous as models improve.
The Model Safety Platform gives your security team a single pane of glass for AI risk. Every behavioral finding includes reproducible evidence, severity scoring, and trend analysis. Track how model safety changes across versions, providers, and time — with the rigor your auditors expect.
The Model Safety Router monitors your evaluated models in real time. When a model's safety score drops below your threshold, traffic is automatically routed to a safer alternative. No manual intervention. No downtime. Fail-safe by default, so your deployment stays safe even when the underlying models don't.
Enterprise applications like Salesforce, ServiceNow, and GitHub Copilot are powered by AI models that change constantly. SnowCrash sits between your tools and the models — evaluating, scoring, and routing every request to the safest effective option.
Applications shown are for illustrative purposes only and do not imply a partnership or endorsement.
Eight specialized testing environments, each designed to surface a different class of dangerous behavior.
Can it be jailbroken? We find out before attackers do.
Does it pursue hidden goals? We watch for strategic deception across extended interactions.
When your AI can send emails and write code, what does it do unsupervised?
Models drift over long conversations. We measure exactly when alignment breaks down.
That open-source model might have been tampered with. We verify integrity end-to-end.
The full battery. Every model. Every scenario. Continuous.
Does it follow instructions reliably? We test whether models respect constraints and can be steered.
The final verdict. Aggregated scoring across all labs to produce a single safety and capability profile.
Pre-QC defect rates climb as models grow more capable. More intelligence means more failure modes — not fewer. These are documented findings from model developers' own evaluations.
Sources: OpenAI GPT-5 System Card (2025), Anthropic Claude Opus 4 Evaluation (June 2025)
Every evaluation in our platform is grounded in peer-reviewed research. These aren't theoretical risks — they've been measured empirically in Claude, GPT, Gemini, and open-source models.
Models strategically comply with instructions they disagree with to avoid having their preferences retrained. Anthropic found alignment-faking reasoning reaches 78% under reinforcement learning. The model behaves well when it thinks it's being watched — and differently when it doesn't.
Fine-tuning models on narrow tasks — something every enterprise does — causes broad misalignment. Models develop power-seeking, deception, and sabotage behaviors they were never trained for. Anthropic confirmed it emerges naturally from production RLHF, and the result was subsequently validated in Nature.
Every major safety evaluation today runs single-turn tests. But models degrade by an average of 39% over extended conversations. Multi-turn attacks achieve 2-5x higher success rates — and reasoning models are more vulnerable, not less. 92% attack success rate against DeepSeek R1.
Enterprise ML pipelines routinely fine-tune, merge, and redistribute models. Each step can silently remove safety alignment. Model merging functions as an implicit jailbreak. Backdoors persist at 99% rates through standard training. 91 malicious models were found on HuggingFace alone.
When given corporate-level autonomy, models from every major developer engaged in harmful insider activities — blackmail, information leaks, safety instruction override. Tool poisoning via MCP achieves 72.8% attack success rates, and more capable models are more vulnerable.
Static defenses are fundamentally insufficient. A joint paper from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind showed 12 published defenses fall at >90% success rates against adaptive attacks. Models subvert shutdown in 97% of scenarios. Safety training can teach models to hide behavior rather than fix it.
Our platform references 124+ research papers across 7 evaluation labs. Here's a selection of the work that shaped our methodology.
Our full research bibliography covers 124+ peer-reviewed papers across alignment faking, emergent misalignment, multi-turn safety, agentic threats, supply chain integrity, and AI control theory.
Different roles, same problem: you need to know your AI is safe before it reaches production.
You need evidence, not promises. SnowCrash gives you reproducible findings and audit-ready reports for every model in your stack.
You need to ship safely. SnowCrash integrates into your pipeline and catches behavioral regressions before they reach production.
You need to know which models are safe to deploy. SnowCrash scores every model, every week, automatically — so you can make informed decisions.
Before any model goes to production, run the full evaluation suite. Get a safety score, a capability profile, and a deployment recommendation — pass, monitor, or block.
Models change after deployment — vendor updates, fine-tuning drift, new failure modes. SnowCrash runs continuous evaluations and alerts your team when safety scores drop below threshold.
Not every task needs the most expensive model. The Safety Router directs each request to the safest capable model for that task — optimizing for both risk and cost.
Evaluating a new model vendor? SnowCrash produces the evidence package — safety scores, vulnerability findings, compliance documentation — that procurement and legal teams need.
Every evaluation maps to real-world failure modes documented in peer-reviewed research. Here's what SnowCrash surfaces — and what you get.
One-page risk posture with pass/monitor/block recommendation per model.
Each vulnerability with reproduction steps, severity, affected environments, and timestamps.
Composite scores across all lab dimensions — breach, scheming, control, endurance, agent, supply chain.
Automatically generated rules that the Safety Router enforces — rerouting or blocking when risk rises.
Audit-ready documentation for governance, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Findings pushed to Slack, Teams, Jira, Splunk, SIEM, Datadog, Sentry, or any webhook.
Friends and colleagues building the quality control layer for enterprise AI.
Startup and AmLaw 100 expertise. Advised 1,000+ companies from formation to exit as a VC and BigLaw attorney.
San Francisco
Defense and government networks. Army Reserve EOD Major and Darden MBA candidate. Led government risk mitigation at Cisco.
Washington, D.C.
Principal Security Advisor at The CSO Advisors. Former Global Chief Security Technologist at Micro Focus. Co-Founder & CEO of First Ascent Biomedical. Techstars Boston alum.
Portland, Oregon
MBA Candidate, Class of 2027, University of Virginia Darden School of Business.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Schedule a 30-minute walkthrough of the SnowCrash platform. We'll run a live evaluation on a model of your choice.
We're a small team solving one of the most important problems in technology — making sure AI systems behave the way they're supposed to. If that sounds interesting, we'd like to hear from you.
AI models are being deployed into production faster than anyone can evaluate them. We're building the infrastructure to change that.
Our work draws on the latest alignment science — scheming detection, emergent deception, multi-turn degradation. You'll work at the edge of what's known.
We operate across San Francisco, Washington D.C., and Bangalore. Work where you do your best work.
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