bitter pill
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builds

napkin to network, bitter pill builds what you can’t already buy.
“i wish i had a,” and a search that came up empty: that’s where we begin.

bitter pill’s sauce isn’t secret. it’s security, first. design, development, and deployment. you’re used to seeing bare-minimum security features tacked on to protect an already-built platform. we go the other way.

software

you describe the need, we write the code that meets it. there’s no catalog here because we’ve never built the same thing twice. every engagement is its own problem, and the code that solves it doesn’t exist yet.

a few we can point to: a framework that retests N findings without touching each one by hand. a parser for an archaic proprietary format, reverse-engineered after the manual turned to dust. a report generator that turns raw output into something a client can act on. daemons, post-exploitation utilities, glue that makes two frameworks speaking different languages talk anyway. a different problem every time. the through-line is that it wasn’t for sale, and it had to be secure.

whatever you’ve got in mind, that’s the starting point. we’ll write the rest.

hardware assemblies

you bring the platform or we help you choose one, and we build it out into the machine the job needs. the right modules, the right components, nothing bolted on that isn’t pulling its weight.

the result is a client-defined assembly built to spec. you get the build, the manifest, and a straight account of its capabilities and limitations.

systems

some jobs are bigger than a part. you need more than a board or a script, you need the whole thing standing up in the field and reporting back. cohesive, coherent, stable.

so we take it end to end. the platform, the image cut down to what the mission needs, the daemons that keep it alive and talking, the scripts that run after deployment, and the channel it reaches you through. we build every layer and make the seams disappear.

security can’t be an afterthought here. the threat model has to shape the image, the daemons, and the channel before any of them exist. you get a build that was never meant to be trusted blindly, and the reasoning for why it can be.

prototypes

you have an idea. bitter pill can help you build the first working copy.

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contact

no forms, no discovery calls, no sales sequence.

tell us the problem in a paragraph. we'll answer quickly with fit and shape, or a pointer somewhere better.

contact@bitterpill.io openPGP D183..655A signal on request