That&#x27;s a line every consultancy that ever had to compete with another consultancy has told at least one client. But the truth is, for the <i>overwhelming majority</i> of application software, and particularly for any software that would procure a pentest through a market like this, the Bishop Fox &quot;F-Team&quot; is perfectly up to the task and far more reliable than a talented rando.<p>The software pentesters with gold-plated resumes do high-value targets (because there are more high-value targets than there are pentesters to service them). Google is not going to source Google Mail pentesters on DICE. Adobe doesn&#x27;t source pentesters for Reader on DICE. Microsoft doesn&#x27;t source pentesters for SCHANNEL.DLL on DICE. Apple doesn&#x27;t source pentesters for the iPhone bootloader on DICE. That&#x27;s where the A-Team ends up.<p>What transparency are you adding here?<p>If the argument behind this was, &quot;we&#x27;re going to drive down the price of pentesting&quot;, that would be a coherent pitch, although I&#x27;d still want to hear how you expect this service will do that; again, the market is supply-constrained.