Built by operators who'd seen the bill go up too many times.
Sasquatch Labs is building the lossless compression layer the modern observability stack should have shipped with. The team wrote it because no existing tool was willing to compress losslessly at the edge — every alternative either dropped data or stayed centralized.
- 01Never drop data.
- 02Compress where the data is born.
- 03Customer cloud, customer keys, customer egress.
- 04Auditable by construction, not by promise.
Lossless. Edge-native. Yours.
Lossless first
Compression that drops data isn't compression — it's filtering. Every byte we ingest is recoverable, SHA-256 verified, and audit-grade by construction.
Edge-native
Cost is cheapest where the data is born. We compress in your cluster, before egress, before SIEM ingest, before anyone else sees a number.
Operator-friendly
Drop-in DaemonSet. Signed apt + yum repos. Air-gap mode out of the box. The architecture serves the operator, not the vendor.
The story.
The founders have watched this bill go up first-hand — across our own startups all the way through to the world's largest financial institutions and asset managers. The shape of the pain didn't change with the customer logo on the door. The same observability tax. The same impossible choice between paying it or dropping data. The same audit-grade retention demands no one had a clean answer for.
Every "cost optimization" tool that arrived on the scene asked the same trade: drop data, or pay more. None offered a third path. We knew the third path had to exist, because we'd spent enough nights staring at telemetry to know how repetitive modern logs, traces, and metrics actually are. The compression ratio was sitting there in the data, unclaimed.
So we built it. The architecture is the inverse of the SaaS-with-your-data model: signed packages, BYO cloud, air-gap-capable, structured so the engineering team and the customer's security team can both audit what runs where. We're not the vendor your data flows through — we're the agent that ships into your cluster and hands you the compressed bytes back.
This had to be solved. So we solved it.
What's already shipped.
All artifacts are public, signed, and reproducible. The release manifest at repo.sasquatchlabs.io/manifest.json is the source of truth — we ship the same bits to every channel.