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Pretense is an AI security firewall that protects proprietary code during AI-assisted development. Instead of redacting code (which breaks AI context), Pretense mutates identifiers deterministically, preserving semantic structure while making code unrecognizable to any AI or human inspecting the request. The result: developers get full AI assistance without exposing intellectual property to third-party API providers. Founded April 2026, pre-seed stage, targeting $750K raise to expand the mutation engine and enterprise distribution.