Chapter IOrigin
2017
The tool that did not exist.
Development begins. A pentester studying for the OSCP builds the tool the job needed.
Built for the work.By people who do it.
Since 2017, PenTest.WS has built enterprise software for offensive security teams, deployed entirely on infrastructure you control.
Est. 2017 Denver, Colorado Built by practitioners
01 / The beginning
In July 2017, I was studying for the OSCP and went looking for a purpose-built tool to organize a penetration test. There wasn't one. So I built it. Everything we have shipped since answers a problem we have hit in the field.
Adam BenwellFounder & CEO
The company
PenTest.WS LLC
Founded
2017, Colorado
Ownership
Privately held.
No outside investors.
Headquarters
Denver, Colorado
02 / The chapters Eight chapters.
Eight chapters.
One conviction.
I / VIII
Chapter IICompany
2018
A company in Colorado.
PenTest.WS LLC is formed in March 2018. The private beta opens to working testers.
Chapter IIISovereignty
2019
Who owns the data? You.
Pro launches: offline and self-hosted, for testers under strict NDA. Our sovereignty stance starts here.
Chapter IVReporting
2021
Version 2.0.
A findings system, a DOCX reporting engine, shared engagements and a REST API.
Chapter VScale
2022
Enterprise scale.
Engagements grow to tens of thousands of hosts. The platform keeps up.
Chapter VIPeople
2025
The human attack surface.
Social engineering, an events timeline, findings groups, reporting briefs and file shares.
Chapter VIINeuron
2026
Neuron launches.
January: the offensive security execution platform. March: Burp Suite integration. October: pentest.ws becomes our corporate home.
Chapter VIIINext
What comes next
More products are in development, shaped the same way: from problems we hit in the field, for teams who run them on their own infrastructure.
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03 / What we believe
We know the job, because we have done it.
Every feature started as a problem we hit on a real engagement. We design around the work as it happens: scoping, testing, QA, the report and the retest.
Principles
01
Built by practitioners.
Built for operators first, by people who have run the engagement themselves.
02
The report is the product.
Findings library, multi-stage QA and private AI drafting, because the deliverable is what your client pays for.
03
Sovereign by design.
On-premises, private cloud or air-gapped. Even the AI. We never hold your engagement data.
04
Engineered for scale.
From a single operator to global programs, with tens of thousands of hosts per engagement.
04 / Platform 
From scope to retest,
From scope to retest,
in one system.
Neuron is the offensive security execution platform. Plan, execute, review and deliver every engagement in one place, on infrastructure you own.
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Capabilities
- Engagement management
- Scheduling
- Assets & credentials
- Findings library
- Playbooks & checklists
- Private AI reporting
- Multi-stage QA
- Retests
- Delivery Portal
- AD & Entra attack paths
- REST API & ServiceNow
- Burp Suite extension
05 / How we build
Built around the engagement.
Stage by stage.
A real engagement has five stages. We have run every one of them, so the software follows the same order the work does.
01
Scope
Engagements, schedules, assets and credentials, set up the way a lead actually scopes a test.
02
Test
Playbooks, checklists and AD and Entra attack paths, kept beside the operator while the work happens.
03
Review
A multi-stage QA pipeline, because every finding should be checked before a client reads it.
04
Report
A findings library and private AI drafting on your hardware, because the report is the deliverable.
05
Retest
Retests tracked against the original findings, so closing the loop is part of the engagement.
One workflow, scoping to retestDeployed on your infrastructure
06 / Who we build for
For the teams that test
the world's defenses.
07 / Newsroom
Latest from PenTest.WS.
Sep 29, 2026 Product Reporting in Every Language Your Clients Read Sep 18, 2026 Product Deploy Neuron Anywhere, Including Air-Gapped Sep 6, 2026 Product Neuron AI on Your Own Hardware Sep 1, 2026 Video Track Changes Has a Flaw Aug 17, 2026 Video Building an AD Attack Path Into a Report Finding, With No External Graph Server
08 / Contact
Request a private briefing.
Tell us about your team and environment. We will show you Neuron running the way you would run it: on your infrastructure, under your control.
01We reply within one business day
A person on our team, not an autoresponder.
02A 15-minute call
Your team, your environment, your constraints.
03A private demo on your terms
Neuron shown the way you would deploy it.