ReleaseTEAM has Partnered with CleanStart

We’re excited to announce that ReleaseTEAM has partnered with CleanStart, a leader in secure, verified container images and open-source library governance for the AI era.

If your teams have felt the weight of endless vulnerability scanning, patch backlogs, and unverified dependencies creeping into your builds, you’re not alone. Public registries and AI-assisted development have made it easier than ever for vulnerabilities, hidden malware, and unvetted packages to slip into production — often without anyone noticing until a scan flags it, sometimes months later.

CleanStart takes a different approach. Instead of hardening images after the fact and then chasing CVEs as they surface, CleanStart starts clean: source-built, hardened container and VM images with near-zero CVEs from day one, continuously rebuilt to stay that way.

Their platform is built around three core capabilities:

Clean Images — Hardened, signed container and VM images that are up to 80% smaller, drop in with zero code changes, and come with verifiable provenance (SBOM, Cosign) — compatible with Docker, Kubernetes, and every major registry.

Clean Libraries — Governance over every open-source dependency in your stack, including the ones quietly introduced by AI coding assistants, backed by source verification, continuous validation, and policy-gated CI/CD enforcement.

CleanSight — Continuous visibility into software assets and inherited risk across your environments, with verified remediation paths (not just alerts) and posture reporting built for audits and compliance.

The results speak for themselves: CleanStart has remediated over 88,000 CVEs for customers, delivering a 90%+ average reduction in vulnerabilities and saving engineering teams more than 300,000 hours — all while sourcing over 10 million packages from verified origins.

Why this matters now: as AI accelerates how fast code gets written and shipped, the software supply chain has become the weakest link for most organizations. Teams are shipping faster than they can secure, and traditional scan-and-patch models simply can’t keep pace. CleanStart flips that model — building security in at the source instead of bolting it on downstream — which means less time spent on vulnerability triage, faster deployment cycles, and a stronger compliance foundation (FIPS 140-3, SOC 2, ISO 27001-ready) for the teams that need it most.

We’re proud to bring this partnership to our customers and look forward to helping you build on a cleaner, more secure foundation.