Rome Thorstenson is the founder of Rafter, which is building the security layer for AI-generated software. Rafter brings security into the coding agent’s own feedback loop, helping builders detect and fix vulnerabilities from planning to production to ship secure by design. He started Rafter after watching a friend ship a vibe-coded application to real users with serious security gaps that neither the builder nor the AI had caught. Rafter's vision is simple: anyone should be able to turn an idea into working software, without choosing between speed and security. A Yale graduate and AI researcher, Rome has spent more than a decade building software. At Rafter, he's working to make security a native part of AI-assisted development — not another specialized process builders have to bolt on after the code is already written.
