Where Cycode's ads lose the buyer
Cycode is running 18 live ads on LinkedIn and Google. Their average fit to their own ideal buyer is 7.8 out of 10, and 1 ad needs fixing. Each ad below is one of Cycode’s real live creatives, read straight from the ad libraries.
Cycode’s live ads, scored against their buyer
- Why teams outgrow the scanner they once loved, scored 7/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Scanner-fatigue hook lands well but creative stops at 'So Now You Know' with no specific outcome or proof.
- Cycode + Hugging Face: See & Secure Every AI Model - Cycode, scored 8/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. AI model supply chain angle is timely and precise for AppSec buyers managing Hugging Face dependencies.
- The most valuable thing an Agentic Workflow does is the work you never see. Thin, scored 7/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Agentic remediation workflow visual is concrete but body copy buries the value in process description rather than outcome.
- A developer changes the status of a high-risk CVE in a critical application from, scored 7/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Agentic triage-to-remediation flow is clear, but no specifics on speed or scale to seal the click.
- A model is only as good as the context around it., scored 8/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Side-by-side code diff makes context-aware scanning tangible for AppSec buyers drowning in blind-spot alerts.
- See the attack chain, not just the ranking., scored 9/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Attack-chain reframe hits the exact false-priority pain that drives CISO consolidation decisions.
- Security has always been something people do. A tool finds the risk. A person de, scored 6/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Same creative as ad 0 but the text copy pivots to a philosophical angle that dilutes the agentic value prop.
- Deterministic and agentic scanning, no gap between., scored 8/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. 2.1 percent false-positive benchmark and dual-engine framing give AppSec leads a concrete, defensible reason to evaluate.
- Agentic Workflows, scored 8/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Concrete alert-to-signal ratio instantly quantifies the noise problem every AppSec lead lives with daily.
- How StoneX replaced five scanners with one view., scored 9/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Named financial-services customer replacing five tools is a perfect proof point for the consolidation-trigger buyer.
- What teams say about the scanner they replaced, scored 9/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Verbatim Head of Product Security quote with company size destroys false-positive objection before it forms.
- 15x fewer false positives. Seven days a month back., scored 8/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Concrete time-cost stat lands hard on the AppSec noise problem, but no CTA beyond 'switching'.
- Introducing Cycode Workstation Protection: ADLC Security Now Stops Software Supply Chain Attacks - Cycode, scored 7/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. AI-agent supply chain angle is timely and specific, but 'Introducing' framing buries the buyer pain.
- Same benchmark. 25.1% vs 2.1% false positives., scored 9/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Side-by-side benchmark numbers make the signal-to-noise win impossible to ignore for any AppSec buyer.
- How Zebra stopped fixing the wrong things first., scored 8/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Named customer story nails the CVSS-vs-business-context pain that drives consolidation decisions.
- How Unity found the repositories nobody scanned., scored 8/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Coverage-gap story with a recognizable logo speaks directly to the blind-spot fear of large engineering orgs.
- Three calls you should not have to make., scored 7/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Toggle visual cleverly surfaces the fragmented-tooling decision fatigue, but the hook is cryptic without context.
- Cycode | Secure Your SDLC - Agentic Development Security, scored 7/10 against Cycode’s ideal buyer. Hits the right acronyms and AI-native angle for high-intent searchers, but 'self-healing' is vague and the CTA destination is a demo page not signaled in copy.
See Cycode’s full live-ad board on AdRoast. Every creative scored against their ICP, with the exact fix for each.
Learn the method behind these scores: the AdRoast guides cover how to audit your ads against your ICP and why clicks do not turn into pipeline.