From Our CEO: What If OSS Risk Intelligence Were Composable?

Rethinking Software Composition Analysis with Modular, Developer-Centric Intelligence 

At SCANOSS, we’ve spent years challenging the rigid conventions of legacy software composition analysis. One of the most powerful concepts emerging from this challenge is something we’re calling Composable Intelligence.

Put simply, SCANOSS approaches open source risk intelligence as composable intelligence: a set of modular, adaptable data signals that can be assembled into workflows tailored to your exact needs. 

We deliver our insights—security vulnerabilities, license data, snippet matches, encryption signals, contributor provenance, and more—as API-accessible data streams. These signals can be pulled individually, consumed in real time, and adapt into exactly the workflows or dashboards your team needs.

You don’t have to accept a generic report or wait for a full scan. You don’t have to conform to someone else’s UI. You don’t have to be locked into a fixed vendor-driven workflow. 

Just like modern applications are assembled from composable services and reusable components, we believe open source risk intelligence should be equally flexible and modular.You might want to detect problematic open source snippets during a pre-commit, surface weak encryption usage during a build, or pipe licensing anomalies directly into your own compliance engine. SCANOSS enables all of that.

Why is this different? Because most tools in this space still treat SCA as a set of static reports rather than live, composable data streams. They scan the code, spit out an SBOM, and move on. Composable Intelligence is the opposite. It’s live, granular, and developer-first. It enables automation, not just documentation. It integrates with existing CI/CD pipelines, and it gives you control over what you use, how you use it, and where you apply it.

Think of it this way: legacy SCA tools give you a sealed black box. SCANOSS gives you the building blocks you can assemble into exactly what you need.

This matters, not just for flexibility, but for freedom. When risk data becomes composable, vendor lock-in disappears. You can build what you need and change what you don’t.  

Composable Intelligence means SCANOSS doesn’t just tell you what’s in your code. It empowers you to build your own answers, aligned to your own policies, priorities, and platforms.

That’s the direction we’re taking the SCANOSS platform. And that’s the future of open source risk intelligence.

– Alan Facey, CEO of SCANOSS