about
We make it expensive to attack and cheap to defend.
Decoyly was built by responders who were tired of arriving too late. So we built the thing that catches attackers the moment they make their first wrong move.
mission
Flip the economics of the breach.
For decades, defenders have had to be right every time while attackers only had to be right once. Deception turns that asymmetry around. An attacker inside a Decoyly environment can't tell what's real — so every step is a gamble, and every wrong guess gives them away.
We pair that with AI that decides and acts in under a second, so the gap between detection and containment all but disappears.
values
What we hold to.
Make the attacker pay
Defense is usually a tax on the defender. We invert it — every move an attacker makes inside a Decoyly environment costs them, and reveals them.
Signal over noise
We refuse to ship anything that adds to alert fatigue. If it isn't high-fidelity, it doesn't reach your analysts.
Autonomy with accountability
Our AI acts fast, but every decision is explainable and auditable. No black boxes in the loop.
Defenders first
We build for the people on call at 3 a.m. Their time, their trust, and their sanity are the product spec.
story
How we got here.
- 2023Decoyly founded in Bradford, Wales after one founder spent a decade cleaning up breaches.
- 2024Deception Grid and Sentryl AI ship; first enterprise customers go live.
- 2025$32M Series A to expand cloud and identity deception.
- 2026Managed detection & response launches; protecting millions of endpoints.
team
Responders, researchers, and builders.
Maya Okonkwo
Co-founder & CEO
Ex-incident response lead
Daniel Reyes
Co-founder & CTO
Built deception systems at scale
Priya Nair
VP, Research
Adversarial ML & threat intel
Tom Albrecht
VP, Engineering
Distributed systems
We're hiring defenders.
Engineering, research, and security roles — remote-friendly, UK-based.
deploy
See an attacker walk into the trap.
Book a 30-minute live demo. We'll deploy a Decoyly grid in a sandbox and run a real intrusion against it — start to containment.