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# Discovery Seeds

# Discovery Seeds


**Category: Features & Tools**


## What is a Discovery Seed?


A discovery seed is a trusted identifier of your organization - such as a domain, IP range, certificate, ASN, or email pattern - that acts as the root reference for asset discovery.


## How Seeds Work


From seeds, Malanta.ai pivots outward, uncovering related assets through correlations such as:
* WHOIS data
* DNS records
* Certificate reuse
* Redirect paths
* Hosting providers
* Third-party associations


Seeds enable continuous discovery of your organization's evolving digital footprint. As your infrastructure changes, Malanta uses seeds to automatically find new assets and monitor them.


## What Makes a Good Seed?


* Your primary registered domains
* Known IP ranges
* SSL certificates used across your infrastructure
* Email patterns used in domain registration