USE CASE · ELIMINATE DEPENDENCY DEBT

Stop triaging the backlog. Start burning it down.

Every AppSec team is buried under vulnerable and outdated dependencies — and the old answer was to prioritize which ones to ignore. Heeler takes the opposite approach: it computes the deterministic upgrade for each finding, validates that it compiles, and opens the merge-ready pull request — turning a backlog you manage into one you actually clear.

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.

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The backlog compounds

Agents add dependencies faster than any team upgrades them — the gap between vulnerable and fixed widens every sprint.

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Manual upgrades are risky

A version bump can break a build or a runtime. Fear of breakage is why debt sits untouched for months.

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Tickets aren't fixes

Filing an issue just moves the work to another queue. Nothing is remediated until the code actually changes.

DETERMINISTIC FIX

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.

AT SCALE

One clean PR per package, across the org.

Debt isn't one repo's problem. Heeler groups findings by package across your whole portfolio and produces the fix once, routed to whoever owns it.

Grouped by package

Findings collapse into one remediation per package — fix it once, everywhere 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.

FOCUS FIRST

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.