Swimlane uses AI to build playbooks.
Simbian uses AI to resolve the alert.
Underneath, Swimlane is still a playbook-driven system: someone authors and maintains every flow, and a novel alert falls back to a person. Simbian resolves the alert itself with no playbook to build, across offense and defense on one platform.
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Automation stops at the flow nobody built
Toggle between an alert Swimlane has a flow for, and one nobody built a flow for.
Flow exists
User-reported phishing: credential harvesting
Source: Email security · A phishing-triage flow exists in Turbine Canvas, and Hero AI is on hand
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
SwimlaneLow-code + Hero AI
Build the flowFirst, someone builds and maintains the phishing-triage flow in Turbine Canvas — Hero AI speeds the authoring, but the flow is still the artifact
·IngestAlert received into Turbine case management
·Run the flowHero AI runs the authored enrichment components — URL reputation, sender, hash — and summarizes the case
·DecideThe Verdict Agent reaches a verdict along the authored branch; fast and deterministic
·Contain + confirmExecutes the authored containment, pausing for an analyst to confirm the high-consequence action
Building playbooks vs. working the alert
Swimlane automates one domain with authored flows. Simbian reasons across offense and defense on one platform.
R1
Alert coverage and speed
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Resolves a known, matched alert on its own
Share of alert volume resolved end-to-end on its own
Speed on a matched alert
R2
Reasoning and novelty
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Resolves a novel alert end-to-end with no authored flow
Reasons about the alert vs. executes authored actions
Learns across cases — every investigation improves the next
R3
Platform breadth and self-improvement
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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
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Ongoing playbook and component maintenance burden
Build effort and talent dependency
Human keeps containment authority, with graduated autonomy
Full Limited None
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Swimlane is a security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) platform. Its current product, Swimlane Turbine, is a low-code security automation platform with an AI layer called Hero AI. The automation runs on playbooks and modular components a team builds and maintains in Turbine Canvas, and Hero AI accelerates authoring and executes authorized actions over that library.
Hero AI narrows the gap but does not close it. It runs ad-hoc, natural-language actions and selects from playbook actions that already exist, so it acts over an authored library. A novel alert with no built flow still falls back to a person authoring or adapting one. Simbian reasons through each alert directly, so a signal nobody built a flow for still gets investigated and closed.
Swimlane executes low-code playbooks your team authors and maintains, with Hero AI accelerating and running them. An AI SOC agent reasons about the alert itself and decides the next step, so there is no flow to build and nothing to break when your environment changes. Simbian resolves 92% of alerts autonomously in production deployments.
Yes. Turbine Canvas is where teams drag and drop components to build and reuse playbooks, and someone has to author, validate, version, and maintain each one. Hero AI can draft templates and generate code to speed that work, but the foundation is still authored flows. Simbian requires zero playbooks — reasoning stands in for the rules rather than running them faster.
Yes. Swimlane exists to build and run playbooks, and Simbian removes the need for playbooks entirely. Its AI SOC Agent reasons through each alert instead of executing authored flows, so there is nothing to build or maintain. Your data sources (SIEM, EDR, identity, SaaS, ticketing) stay connected; the playbook automation layer Swimlane provides is what Simbian replaces.
Simbian takes a different approach from Swimlane and most Swimlane competitors in the SOAR category. Instead of running playbooks a team authors and maintains, its AI SOC Agent reasons through each alert and decides the next step, which removes the build-and-maintain step entirely. It also resolves the novel alerts that authored-flow platforms escalate to a person.