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Stop triaging the backlog. Start burning it down.
AppSec teams accumulate vulnerable and outdated dependencies faster than they can safely upgrade them. The old answer was to prioritize which ones could wait. Heeler takes the opposite approach: compute the safe upgrade, validate it, and deliver the pull request — turning dependency debt from a queue you manage into one you can actually burn down.
Prioritization helped you live with the backlog — not fix it.
Ranking thousands of findings only tells you which fires to fight first; the pile keeps growing. Debt goes down when the fix is automatic, safe, and applied at the same speed the debt is created.
The backlog compounds
Agents add dependencies faster than any team upgrades them — the gap between vulnerable and fixed widens every sprint.
Manual upgrades are risky
A version bump can break a build or a runtime. Fear of breakage is why debt sits untouched for months.
Tickets aren't fixes
Filing an issue just moves the work to another queue. Nothing is remediated until the code actually changes.
The exact upgrade, computed — not guessed.
Heeler doesn't hand you a version range and wish you luck. It computes the minimal set of upgrades that clears the most risk, then proves the result builds before it ever reaches you.
Minimal, maximal-impact
A set-cover solve finds the smallest set of version changes that resolves the most findings — fewer PRs, more risk cleared.
Compile-validated
Each upgrade is built and checked, so a fix doesn't trade a vulnerability for a broken build.
Self-repairing
When a change breaks CI, Heeler adjusts and retries — the loop that turns a risky bump into a merge-ready one.
One package problem, coordinated across the org.
Heeler groups findings for the same package across your portfolio, computes the remediation strategy, and routes the required fixes to the teams that own each affected codebase.
Grouped by package
Group the package once. Generate and route the right remediation wherever it appears.
Merge-ready, not a ticket
The output is a pull request the owning team can review and merge — not an issue that ages in a queue.
Net-new and legacy
The same engine burns down years of accumulated debt while guardrails keep new debt from forming.
Target the urgent, automate the rest.
Fix-first doesn't mean fix-blindly. Heeler orders the burndown so the exploitable, exposed findings go first, and routes every fix to its owner automatically.
Urgent fixes first
Reachability and context put the exploitable, internet-exposed findings at the front of the queue — the rest follow on schedule.
Routed and tracked
Workflows open the PR or ticket, message Slack or Teams, and follow it to done — with SLOs, not hope.
A backlog that trends down
Because fixes are automatic and safe, the debt curve finally bends the right way.
See your backlog with a fix on every line.
A demo runs Heeler across your repos and shows the deterministic, validated upgrade for each vulnerable dependency — the backlog, already solved.
