PAIN TRIGGERS
AI security tools are vague about actual performance.
Tools fail on multi-turn manipulation attacks like Crescendo.
Poor cold-start detection on held-out benchmarks.
SaaS· Developers running AI products facing customersPain 7.00/10WTP 7.0/10Market 8.0/10Validation 5.0Confidence 70%Apr 19, 2026
InjecProxy: Multi-Turn LLM Injection Blocking Proxy
Existing AI security tools fail to detect multi-turn prompt injections like Crescendo attacks, exhibit poor generalization with high false positives, and provide vague performance metrics without honest benchmarks.
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STAGE 01 · PROBLEM
Is the problem real?
CANONICAL PROBLEM
Deployers of customer-facing LLMs face unreliable prompt injection detection, especially multi-turn attacks and behavioral drift, with vague tool performance.
FREQUENCY
Limited repetition signal.
INTENSITY
Users explicitly describe existing tools as bloated/overkill and mention workaround behavior.
EVIDENCE
I built an LLM proxy that uses differential geometry to detect prompt injection — here’s what actually works (and what doesn’t)
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I built an LLM proxy that uses differential geometry to detect prompt injection — here’s what actually works (and what doesn’t)
SideProject11
I built an LLM proxy that uses differential geometry to detect prompt injection — here’s what actually works (and what doesn’t)
SideProject11
I built an LLM proxy that uses differential geometry to detect prompt injection — here’s what actually works (and what doesn’t)
SideProject11
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STAGE 02 · CUSTOMER
Who feels this pain?
TARGET USERS
Developers running AI products facing customersA I Product Deployers
Developers building user-facing applications powered by GPT-4 or Claude who need reliable protection against prompt injection exploits.
Context
Secure LLM API calls with real-time injection blocking, behavioral monitoring, and low false positives via a simple proxy.
Calibrating detectors on own deployment traffic.
Current Workarounds
Using LLM Guard which scores prompts independently and misses multi-turn attacks
Calibrating open-source detectors on own deployment traffic
Relying on tools with vague performance claims and high false positives
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STAGE 03 · MARKET
Where's the gap?
EXISTING SOLUTION GAPS
Vague performance claims without honest benchmarks
Per-prompt detection misses session-level drifts
High false positives or poor generalization without calibration
Failure on unicode evasion, encoding/obfuscation in some cases
OPPORTUNITY & VALUE
Why Now
Each complaint appears once but clusters around multi-turn failures, vague metrics, and poor FPR.
Value Proposition
Multi-turn behavioral analysis and honest, deployment-specific benchmarks unlike per-prompt scanners with vague claims.
Product Direction
A drop-in proxy for OpenAI and Anthropic APIs that tracks multi-turn sessions, blocks injections in real-time, monitors behavioral drift, and offers transparent per-deployment benchmarks.
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STAGE 04 · BUSINESS
How does it make money?
MONETIZATION
$99/moUp to 1M tokens · scales with usage
Model
SaaS subscription
WILLINGNESS TO PAY
Deployers face mission-critical exploits in customer-facing apps and complain about unreliable tools like LLM Guard; they'd pay for reliable blocking to avoid manual calibration and vague alternatives.
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STAGE 05 · EXECUTION
How do you ship it?
MVP PLAN
“Block multi-turn prompt injections across your LLM traffic with transparent benchmarks.”
A drop-in proxy for OpenAI and Anthropic APIs that tracks multi-turn sessions, blocks injections in real-time, monitors behavioral drift, and offers transparent per-deployment benchmarks.
Core Features
Drop-in HTTP proxy for OpenAI/Claude APIs
Multi-turn session tracking and injection scoring
Real-time blocking with low FPR alerts
Benchmark dashboard calibrated on user traffic
Weekly Roadmap
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W1-W2
Core proxy detects single-prompt injections end-to-end.
- •Build HTTP proxy middleware for OpenAI/Claude endpoints
- •Integrate baseline injection detectors
- •Add logging for session state
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W3-W4
Multi-turn tracking and blocking functional with mock benchmarks.
- •Implement session persistence and crescendo-style attack simulation
- •Behavioral drift scoring model
- •Real-time block/allow decisions
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W5
Benchmark dashboard live with internal tests on held-out data.
- •Build FPR/detection rate dashboard
- •Calibrate on sample traffic datasets
- •Dogfood with 3 AI dev beta users
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W6
Public beta with first paid signups and HN launch.
- •Stripe integration for token-based billing
- •Deploy to cloud with usage monitoring
- •Post to HN/r/MachineLearning with benchmark results
Launch Strategy
Launch on Hacker News, r/MachineLearning, r/LocalLLaMA, and AI security Twitter with free 100k token tier for devs.
RISKS & ASSUMPTIONS
Top Risks
Detection failure on novel attacks
Multi-turn techniques like Crescendo evolve quickly, risking zero-day exploits if model not adaptive.
High false positive rate in production
Poor cold-start generalization could block legitimate traffic, eroding user trust.
Proxy overhead and latency
Adding session tracking may introduce unacceptable delays for high-throughput apps.
Low adoption due to open-source alternatives
Devs may stick with free LLM Guard despite flaws rather than pay for proxy.
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STAGE 06 · DECISION
Should you build it?
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