Why we built this
Chainsaw was founded in 2026 because every supply-chain control we saw ran after the fact. Scanners flagged dependencies already in production. SBOMs got assembled the week before an audit. Tickets chased upgrades for packages that should never have installed. The install path is the only place left where a policy decision can actually stop the problem. So that's where we built.
We believe dependency policy only matters where it can still refuse a package — on the install path itself. Everything downstream of that point is a report, a ticket, or an upgrade scramble. Chainsaw is the control earlier in the loop.
Context
The modern supply chain is more distributed, faster-moving, and more dependent on package ecosystems than it was even a few years ago. Earlier control points matter more because package decisions now propagate almost immediately.
Most supply-chain tools look like older auditing categories: scan, alert, ticket, upgrade. That loop runs after risk has already entered the system. The install path is the last place you can refuse a package cheaply. So that's where we built.
Platform, security, and compliance teams who need dependency policy enforced the same way every time — not as a PDF in a wiki, not as a scanner report reviewed on Mondays, but as a decision made on every install request in every environment.
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