SOAR waits for you to tell it what to do.
Simbian defends from day one.
SOAR only acts once your team has written and maintained a playbook — real work up front and on every change. It can't handle an attack it hasn't seen, and most teams never automate past 25–30% of their alerts. Simbian's AI SOC Agent investigates and closes the alert itself, playbook or not, from day one.
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Playbooks break on what they haven't seen
Toggle between an alert SOAR has a playbook for, and one nobody wrote a playbook for.
Playbook exists
User-reported phishing: credential harvesting
Source: Email security · Matches a phishing-triage playbook your team maintains
SimbianAutonomous
IngestAlert picked up from email security
·ReasonWorks the alert directly, forming a hypothesis from the evidence, not a matched pattern
·Apply contextPulls what it already knows about this user, asset, and prior cases from the Context Lake™
·EnrichDetonates the URL, checks sender history, pulls who else received it
·Evaluate severityWeighs blast radius and business context, then reaches a verdict: malicious, active credential theft
·ContainPurges org-wide, resets exposed identities, closes the case under the active mode
SOARPlaybook-bound
Author the playbookFirst, someone on your team has to write the phishing-triage playbook — and update it every time the environment changes
·IngestAlert received
·Match playbook"Phishing-Triage" matches by type and source
·Run enrichmentScripted enrichment calls fire — URL reputation, sender, hash
·DecidePlaybook branch reaches a deterministic verdict — no severity judgment beyond the branch it was given
·Contain + approveExecutes containment, pauses for an analyst to approve the action
Playbooks vs. a platform that reasons
SOAR automates the alerts it was scripted for. Simbian reasons across offense and defense on one platform.
R1
Coverage and speed
SOARSimbian
Resolves a known, matched alert on its own
Share of alert volume automated
Speed on a matched alert
R2
Novelty and reasoning
SOARSimbian
Resolves a novel alert with no playbook
Reasons about the alert vs. matches a rule
Learns across cases — every investigation improves the next
R3
Platform breadth and self-improvement
SOARSimbian
Offense and defense on one platform: AI SOC, AI Pentest, and AI Threat Hunt agents
One shared memory across every agent and investigation (Context Lake™)
Self-improving: every attack simulated and case worked hardens the next
Cross-agent context: a pentest finding raises the severity of a related alert
R4
Operating cost and control
SOARSimbian
Ongoing playbook maintenance burden
Time to meaningful ROI
Human keeps containment authority, with graduated autonomy
Full Limited None
Frequently Asked Questions
The better alternative is an AI SOC agent that reasons instead of running playbooks. Simbian replaces what SOAR does: you no longer author or maintain playbooks, and it resolves the novel alerts SOAR escalates to a person. Playbooks were a workaround for not having reasoning; once the agent reasons through each alert, you don't need them.
No. A playbook is a decision tree authored in advance, so an alert shape with no branch has no path to follow. SOAR vendors concede this directly: Torq's own documentation notes that when a threat is new, no playbook exists and SOAR drops the alert into the manual queue. Simbian reasons through the alert instead of matching it, so a novel signal still gets investigated and closed.
No. SOAR is being absorbed into SIEM, XDR, and AI SOC platforms. Vendor-stated figures put its automation coverage at roughly 30 to 40 percent of alert volume, and in practice most teams see closer to 25 to 30 percent, because every alert type needs its own authored playbook branch. The playbook engine is real and useful for the incident types it was built for. What is fading is the belief that a library of static playbooks can cover a threat landscape that keeps producing alerts nobody wrote a branch for.
SOAR executes playbooks your team authors and maintains against alerts that match a known shape. An AI SOC agent reasons about the alert itself and decides the next step, so there is no playbook to write and nothing to break when your environment changes. Simbian resolves 92% of alerts autonomously in production deployments; the reasoning stands in for the rules rather than running them faster.
Yes. SOAR exists to run playbooks, and Simbian removes the need for playbooks entirely. Its AI SOC Agent reasons through each alert, so there is nothing to author or maintain. Your data sources (SIEM, EDR, identity, SaaS, ticketing) stay connected; the SOAR playbook automation layer is what Simbian replaces.