A continuous testing platform will sell you a year of automated external testing with
unlimited retests for roughly the price of one thorough manual engagement. That is a real
offer and for some organisations it is the right one.
Buy the platform if what you need is coverage — knowing quickly when
something new is exposed, across a large and changing estate.
Buy an engagement if what you need is an artifact: a report an assessor,
an auditor, an examiner or an enterprise customer's security review will accept, with a
named practitioner attesting to it. A platform cannot sign anything, and the document has
to survive being forwarded to somebody who was not in the room.
Most organisations past a certain size eventually need both.