Scale Without Rebuilding

Define Once | Execute Anywhere

The easy buttonfor network traffic.

Deploy Animate Hosts, Define their behaviors, Hit play. Your environment comes alive with realistic, wire-level network activity — no scripts, no combursome agents, no rebuilds.

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Kill the10:1 engineering gap.

Scenarios that took weeks are ready in hours. Behaviors become persistent assets — built once, reused indefinitely across every environment you run.

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Zero agents.Zero operational debt.

Animate operates as a guest on the wire. No software on target systems. No configuration drift. Stop it when you're done — infrastructure stays pristine.

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3 nodes active — executing behaviors

Not a traffic generator. Not a range builder.

Animate is the orchestration layer for digital behavior across cyber environments.

10:1

Engineering hours per
hour of active exercise

75%

Labor reduction with
Animate orchestration

$35k

Max maintenance cost per
network node per year

ZERO

Agents installed on
target systems

The Problem

Infrastructure is easy. Engineering the activity inside it is not.

Infrastructure provisioning is solved. You can spin up environments in minutes. What hasn’t been solved is the time, cost, and engineering effort required to create and maintain network activity inside them.

That’s where the real bottleneck begins—and where most programs hit their cost ceiling.

The 10:1 Engineering Gap

10 hours of engineering for every 1 hour of execution. Every scenario becomes a custom build. Nothing is reusable.

Architecture-Locked Logic

Behavior is tied to individual machines. Change the environment → everything breaks → rebuild from scratch.

Sterile Environments

No background activity = no signal. Detection becomes trivial. Validation becomes meaningless.

Compounding Operational Debt

Scripts leave residue. Environments degrade. Cleanup costs rival the build itself.

10:1

THE COST OF MANUAL ENGINEERING

For every 1 hour of execution, you spend 10 hours engineering it. This isn’t a tooling problem—it’s a labor problem. And it makes scale economically impossible.

$35k

Max maintenance cost per node per year

$15k

Min maintenance cost per node per year

⚠ You’re not scaling environments. You’re scaling engineering hours.

The industry solved infrastructure. It never solved behavior. Without a control plane for activity, logic stays tied to machines—and the rebuild cycle never ends.

What Animate Is

Centralized control. Distributed execution.

Animate replaces environment-specific traffic engineering with a single orchestration platform. Define behavior once — the system handles everything else across every environment you run.

Animate does not "create realism." It eliminates the operational burden required to achieve any desired level of realism — as defined by you.

Control Plane

Studio & Orchestration Engine

Where operators define intent. Select behaviors, set scheduling, & create network identities. The Orchestration Engine compiles your intent into execution manifests — no scripting, no SSH, no per-host configuration.

Behavior definition and management
Behavior schedule packages
ANimate Host Identity and credential assignment
Real-time Activity Grid feedback
Coordinates multiple environments simultaneously

Execution Plane

Animate Hosts

Distributed execution nodes deployed into your environment. They receive defined identities from the Control Plane and fire native protocol traffic on the wire — as a guest, with zero footprint on target systems.

Native protocol stimulation — SMB, HTTP, DNS, SSH, etc.
No agents installed on target kernels
Zero configuration drift on target assets
Horizontally scalable via additional host deployment
Pristine teardown — zero orphaned files

Centralized Control

One orchestration layer governs all execution across all environments simultaneously.

Distributed Execution

Activity occurs locally within environments — governed globally from a single control plane.

Environment Independence

No dependency on specific infrastructure. VMware, KVM, cloud, physical — substrate agnostic.

Behavior-Driven Architecture

All activity derives from behaviors. Define once, execute across any node, environment, or scenario.

Full Reusability

Behaviors and scenarios are portable. Build an asset once — it works everywhere, forever.

Horizontal Scalability

Scaling requires no per-environment configuration. Add nodes, not engineers.

How It Works

Five steps. No scripts.

From empty environment to live, realistic network activity — the entire workflow happens in the Scenario Studio without writing a single line of code.

1

Deploy Nodes

Deploy Animate Hosts into your environment. Establishes points of presence within your environment.

2

Select Behaviors

Choose all desired network activity from the behavior library.

SMBHTTP DNSSSH

3

Set Scheduling

Create scheduling packages — when selected behvaiors start and stop during a scenario.

4

Create Identities

The unique network attirbutes, selected behaviors, and scheduling packages the Animate Hosts will have when loaded.

5

Load and Play

Load pushes identities to all deployed hosts. Play tells them to execute.

6

Live Monitoring and Host Feedback

Monitor Host activity externally via desired network monitoring tools. Hosts provide live feedback internally via Action Grid.

7

Stop,Update,Load,Play

Stop Host Activity, Make desired configuration updates, Load new configuration, Play new scenario in minutes.

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Pristine teardown, built in. Hit Stop — behaviors unload from all nodes immediately. No orphaned files. No altered states. No re-imaging required. Your infrastructure is exactly as you left it, ready for the next run.

You can't find the needlewithout the haystack.

A sterile environment is a useless environment. Without realistic background traffic on the wire, there is no forensic context — anomalies are trivially obvious, trainees learn nothing, and validation results are meaningless.

Animate generates the haystack. The 90% background protocol noise that makes every scenario valid, every exercise meaningful, and every detection actually earned.

That's not realism as a feature. That's realism as the natural output of behavioral orchestration done correctly.

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Who It's For

Three roles. One platform.

Animate solves a different problem for each role in the pipeline. Here's what the shift actually looks like.

Range Operator

// Content Engineer · Day-to-Day User

The Pain

Trapped in the 10:1 scripting ratio. Scripts hardcoded to specific VMs. Range pollution and spaghetti logic after every run. Constant re-imaging cycles.

What Changes With Animate

Shift from scripting to configuration. Update one behavior and it cascades to every actor instantly. Stop the scenario — the range is clean. Every single time.

Program Manager

// Training Director · Budget Decision Maker

The Pain

Excessive billable engineering hours for every scenario. High Side logistics nightmares. Weeks of delay for a single environment build. Disposable work with no reuse value.

What Changes With Animate

75% labor reclamation. Scenarios in hours, not weeks. Behaviors become persistent assets — built once, reused across every environment indefinitely. More output, lower cost.

Security Leader

// CISO · Architect · Validation Lead

The Pain

Agent-based tools re-engineered with every OS patch. Static PCAP replays trainees memorize. No forensic background activity. Sterile environments producing meaningless results.

What Changes With Animate

Zero agents on target systems. Stochastic pattern-of-life generation that's different every run. Valid forensic context. Detections that are actually earned.

Not a traffic generator. Not a range builder.

Animate is the network activity layer that makes your environment work — regardless of what platform you use to build it. If you need network traffic in your cyber environment, we cover that piece simply, scalably, and without touching your infrastructure.

Proven Impact

Mission-proven. Institutionally validated.

From air-gapped defense networks to global financial infrastructure — Animate has been tested where it counts.

U.S. Navy / ManTech ST3P

"Simulated realistic human-like network activity"

🏆 Ranked Top 10 Technology for innovation and operational relevance across the program

PI Achievers

"Cracked the code for network behavior"

⚡ New scenarios now spin up in hours instead of weeks

FS-ISAC

"Never seen anything like this."

🏦 Ransomware simulations deployed across 200+ financial institutions

Ready to See It in Your Environment?

We'll map Animate to your specific topology and show you exactly what it looks like in your environment — not a generic demo. A pilot built around your use case, your infrastructure, your team.

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75%

Labor
Reduction

10:1

Gap
Eliminated

ZERO

Agents on
Target Systems

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Tell us about your environment. We'll map Animate to your specific use case and show you exactly what it looks like in your infrastructure.

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