Where We Help
// the parts of AI adoption that go wrong without a guide
Tool Evaluation Without the Vendor Spin
Most Common AskMicrosoft Security Copilot, CrowdStrike Charlotte, Cortex XSIAM, GitHub Copilot Autofix, OSS-Fuzz with LLMs — the AI security tool surface tripled in 18 months. We help you cut through the marketing: what the tool actually does in production, where it breaks, what its real cost looks like at your scale, and whether you should pilot, wait, or skip.
Integration Patterns That Actually Hold
Most Common AskAI tooling that demos beautifully often degrades fast in real environments — rate limits, hallucinated CVE references, stale exploit data, prompt injection in alert payloads. We help your team design integrations that survive: where to gate AI output behind human review, how to validate against current threat data, what to log so you can debug when the model gets it wrong.
Pilot Design & Coaching
Side-by-side advisory while your team runs a pilot. Scope it small enough to learn from, big enough to decide. We help you read the results honestly and not get talked into a rollout the data doesn’t support.
Prompt & Pattern Library
The triage prompt that works for your alert format. The vuln-correlation pattern that handles your CMDB gaps. Codified for your team, not generic vendor docs — and updated as the underlying models change.
Briefing Up & Out
What to say to your CISO, your board, your auditor about AI in your security work. Honest claims, sourced numbers, no overstatement. The thing that separates “we’re piloting” from “we’re production-ready”, and how to know.
// what we don’t do — and we’ll point you somewhere good
Engagement Models
// scoped advisory — you keep the work, we keep you out of the ditches
A working session with your security team to map where AI tooling fits your environment, what to pilot first, what to wait on, and what not to bother with. You walk away with a ranked list, the reasoning behind each call, and the failure modes for the top three.
Side-by-side while your team runs a pilot of one or two AI security tools. We help you scope it, design the integration so it survives real load, verify vendor claims against your data, and read the results honestly. Your team does the work; we keep the pilot from becoming a vendor demo.
For teams scaling AI past the first pilot. Monthly working sessions on new tooling on the market, prompt and pattern library updates, briefing-up support, and async access between sessions. Cancel any month — no long lock-ins.
Who This Is For
// you know security; you want a guide for the AI part
You run a security function (SOC lead, vuln program manager, security architect, security engineering lead) and your team is the one doing the work — you don’t want it outsourced
You’ve seen the AI security tool launches and the “90% alert reduction” demos and you want an honest read on which ones actually hold up in production at your scale
You’ve been burned by a vendor pilot that demoed great and degraded fast, and you want a guide who knows the failure modes before you spend the next budget cycle
You want someone who builds production AI systems as a condition of advising on them — not a generalist who read the same vendor whitepapers you did
Honest scope. We’re an independent AI expert, not a credentialed services firm. If you need accredited pen testing, SOC 2/ISO audit work, CMMC compliance, IR retainer, or managed SOC, we’ll point you toward firms that do that well. For broader AI work outside security: AI Consulting.
How An Engagement Runs
// you do the work; we keep you out of the predictable mistakes
Working Session
An honest conversation about your stack, your team, and what you’re actually trying to solve. We tell you what we think is tractable in-house and what isn’t — including whether you need us at all.
→ Scope agreed, or honest no-fit callEvaluate & Recommend
Hands-on time with the tooling that matters for your scope. Tested in our own environment first, then pressure-tested against your data and constraints. You get our reasoning, not just a verdict.
→ Ranked recommendations + reasoningPilot Alongside Your Team
Your team runs the pilot. We sit alongside — designing the integration, coaching on prompts and patterns, calling out failure modes when we see them coming. Knowledge stays with your team, not with us.
→ Working pilot + your team owning itRead-Out & Next Move
Honest read of pilot results: ship it, iterate, or kill it. We help you brief upward in language that doesn’t overstate. Then either continuing advisory or we step out — your call, no pressure either way.
→ Decision document + briefing languageCommon Questions
// before you book
No. We’re an independent AI expert. Mark has 20 years inside enterprise stacks and reads CVE intel weekly via CyberHawk — that’s the depth he brings to security adoption work. He doesn’t hold CISSP, CISA, or accredited pen-test credentials, and we won’t pretend otherwise. If your engagement requires those credentials (regulated audit work, accredited testing, IR retainer for legal hold), we’ll refer you to firms we’ve worked alongside.
No — and that’s deliberate. Your team does the work; we sit alongside. The reason: the knowledge has to stay with the people running security every day, not walk out the door with a consultant. We accelerate the learning curve and call out the predictable failure modes; we don’t become a dependency you have to keep paying.
Less than vendors will tell you. The AI tooling that’s landed in the last 18 months works with most major SIEMs and EDRs. The harder questions are how to gate AI output, what to log so you can debug a hallucination, and how to validate against current threat data — and those are stack-agnostic. Our advisory is on the AI layer, not the SIEM swap.
Lean teams are exactly where adoption advisory has the most leverage — you can’t afford to pilot the wrong tool, and you don’t have spare cycles to learn from a vendor mistake. Smaller teams typically engage at the Readiness Review or single-pilot level rather than the full advisory. We’ll be honest if your scope doesn’t justify our time and point you to the parts you can do yourself.
Builds production AI systems as a condition of advising on them — agentic workflows, intel-gathering pipelines, ServiceNow AI integrations. Reads CVE/exploit intel weekly via CyberHawk. Publishes practitioner briefs (the Glasswing series) on emerging AI threat capability. The work informs the advisory, and the advisory informs the work. Neither is a side hustle.
Start with a Working Conversation
30 minutes. Tell us what you’re trying to solve. We’ll tell you what’s tractable in-house, what isn’t, and whether you actually need us. Not a pitch — if there’s no fit, you’ll know that in the first ten minutes and can use the rest for anything you want to ask.