E177: RunReveal's Anti SIEM SIEM Platform (With AI That Actually Works!)

Alan Braithwaite is Co-Founder & CTO of RunReveal, the security data platform with real-time monitoring, built-in detections, and AI-powered investigations. Today, they manage and analyze security logs for teams at Harvey, ClickHouse, Cloudflare, and Temporal.

RunReveal has multiple open source projects including event stream processing library kawa and query language pql.

RunReveal has raised from investors including Costanoa, Modern Technical Fund, and Runtime Ventures.

In this episode, we dig into:

• Why today's modern security teams are rethinking data management

• The benefits of building RunReveal on ClickHouse

• How they worked with early believers / customers like Temporal

• Their open source strategy and building trust with the community through open sourcing components like their event processing library

• Their MCP server and enabling security teams to use AI to automate investigations (including the launch of their new remote MCP server)