Who We Help
Senior Engineering Leadership for the Right Situations
Mid-market companies dealing with compliance, enterprise sales, cyber insurance, or AI pressure. DoD contractors on CMMC. PE-backed portcos with AI in the value creation plan.
Companies That Have Outgrown Their Engineering Leadership
Mid-Market Companies
$10M to $200M in revenue with real engineering and security exposure.
Your largest prospects are sending security questionnaires you cannot answer. Deals stall or die because there is no one owning security at the right level.
Insurers want documented controls, MFA enforcement, and incident response plans. Renewal conversations are getting uncomfortable without evidence of a real program.
A compliance deadline is real, but there is no program in place and no one senior enough to own it. You need a security leader, not a policy template.
Customers, the board, or investors expect AI features. The engineering team has never built a production LLM system. You need someone who has.
Platform migration, stack change, monolith split, cloud move. A wrong call locks in a year of work. You want a senior architect in the room before, not after.
Defense Industrial Base
DoD Contractors
Companies with active or pending DoD contracts.
CMMC Level 2 applies to any contractor handling Controlled Unclassified Information. Without it, you cannot bid on or renew covered contracts.
Most defense manufacturers have never done a formal NIST SP 800-171 assessment. The gap is usually larger than expected. The earlier you start, the better.
Your SPRS score is visible to contracting officers. A low score without a credible remediation plan is a liability. We help you calculate it honestly and build toward a defensible number.
C3PAO assessments take time to schedule. We work backward from your contract timeline to make sure you are ready.
Private Equity
PE Firms and PE-Backed Portcos
Sponsors, operating partners, and the portfolio companies they own.
Every quarterly LP review has an AI slide. Operating partners need real AI traction in portcos, not strategy decks. We do the build with the portco team in twelve weeks.
Standard cyber DD misses shadow LLM usage, prompt injection exposure, IP risk, and value creation feasibility. Our AI Diligence covers it in one to two weeks.
Multiple portcos doing AI in different ways with different exposure. A shared platform, governance baseline, and reusable patterns means every new portco starts on top of something.
The team is good but small. They need security, AI, or architecture leadership without a full-time hire. Fractional engagement, senior person, scoped to the value creation plan.
Industries We Work In
Defense Manufacturing
CMMC readiness, ITAR compliance, controlled unclassified information handling, and DoD contract security requirements.
B2B SaaS
SOC 2 Type II, enterprise security questionnaires, SSO, AI features that hold up under customer due diligence.
Financial Services
Security and architecture for companies operating under regulatory scrutiny or selling into financial institutions.
Healthcare & MedTech
HIPAA security rule compliance, PHI handling, AI applied carefully, and security programs that satisfy enterprise health system procurement.
Professional Services
Firms handling sensitive client data that need documented controls for cyber insurance, client trust, and AI feature delivery.
Industrial & OT
Operational technology security, connected device programs, and environments where physical and cyber risk intersect.
Not sure if this is the right fit?
Start with a thirty-minute call. We will tell you honestly whether we are the right match for what you are dealing with.