How I Built CoralSec Copilot: A Unified Enterprise SOC with Coral & Next.js in 4 Days

The tech industry is currently in a frenzy. Everyone is rushing to build the next big AI application, slapping a chatbot interface onto a database and calling it a day. But in this gold rush, we are leaving something critical behind: Enterprise Security. Living in a Kali Linux environment and spending time hunting vulnerabilities teaches you one fundamental truth: security is entirely about context. Hardcoded API keys, undocumented access escalations, and compliance blind spots remain the number one cause of major data breaches. Security teams don’t just need a chatbot that can answer questions; they need a single pane of glass. They need a Security Operations Center (SOC). For the Pirates of the Coral-Bean Hackathon (hosted by Coral and WeMakeDevs), I decided to tackle this massive industry problem. Over the course of 4 sleepless nights, I built CoralSec Copilot—an AI-powered, unified Enterprise SOC platform. Here is the complete Captain's Log of my entire journey, the architecture, the roadblocks, and a reproducible guide so you can build and run it yourself. Day 1: The Brainstorm, Grok, and Cursor AI When the hackathon was announced, my initial thought was basic: "I'll build a CLI agent that scans code." I fired up my IDE, opened Cursor, and started bouncing ideas around. I even looked into some AI models like Grok to understand how they process vast amounts of real-time data. But while brainstorming the architecture, I hit a wall. Scanning a GitHub commit for a leaked AWS key is great, but what if the AI also knew whether the developer who pushed that commit had recently escalated their admin privileges? What if it knew the exact SOC2 compliance policy from our company’s Notion workspace? To do this traditionally, I would have to write dozens of messy REST API integrations. I'd have to handle rate limits, write custom Python scripts for GitHub, another set for Slack, another for Notion, and then build fragile ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines to bring all