Wardell started in 2023 when two people who had run night shifts at larger security firms noticed that small companies were getting breached at 3 am with nobody watching.
We are 38 people, most of us former analysts and engineers from security operations teams. We publish our detections, our pricing and our changelog because we would want the same from a vendor.
As of September 2026. We update these every quarter.
2023
founded in Chicago
38
people across the US
64
companies protected
2
analysts on every night shift
The people you will talk to when something goes wrong.
Ada Lindqvist
Co-founder and CEO
Ran the overnight SOC for a managed security provider in Minneapolis for six years.
Joel Mbeki
Co-founder and CTO
Built log pipelines at a cloud monitoring company. Writes most of our ingestion code.
Dana Reyes
Head of Operations
Leads the analysts who take your pages. Still works one night shift a month.
Sam Whitaker
Head of Detection
Owns the 312 managed detections and reviews every rule change.
Nadia Farouk
Head of Customers
Runs onboarding and the 48-hour threat reviews.
Marcus Shaw
Night shift lead
Schedules the rotation and writes the hand-off template.
Fulton Market, Chicago, Illinois. Visits by appointment.
Send us one week of logs. We send back what we found.
Connect one source with a read-only key. Within 48 hours you get a written report of what Wardell would have caught. No contract, and you can disconnect at any time.