In this episode of Terminal Value, I'm joined by Curt Aubley, co-founder and CEO of Sevii, and Stephen Collins, co-founder and CTO. Sevii is building autonomous defense and remediation for security operations, backed by Overline and BMW i Ventures. We discuss why the SOC was built for a slower world, what separates autonomous remediation from automated playbooks, and whether companies are culturally ready to let AI take real security actions.

We cover the legacy SOC workflow from alert to remediation and why it hands attackers a 15-minute head start, how Sevii's agentic "cyber warriors" go from detection to reported remediation in 2 to 15 minutes across the tools you already own, why per-asset licensing keeps security budgets predictable, Sevii's rule of only using AI where it's necessary, and why the hardest competition may be cultural trust rather than another vendor.

0:00 Hook: Why attackers get a 15-minute head start

0:40 Intro to Curt Aubley, Stephen Collins, and Sevii

1:26 How legacy SOC workflows reach remediation

4:35 Where speed, scale, and economics break the SOC

7:00 Why existing security tools still leave a bottleneck

9:29 What Sevii's autonomous remediation platform does

15:02 How Sevii moves from detection to remediation

19:31 How cyber warriors change SOC staffing

24:00 Customer control, MDR limits, and AI cost strategy

31:20 Sevii's ICP, buyer, and forward-deployed model

37:33 Asset-based pricing and predictable budgets

40:53 Competition, culture, and the future of autonomous defense

48:35 Closing takeaways