Engagements
Most of this work does not need a new pipeline.
Every engagement below runs on the estate you already have and ends with an artifact you can take to a board, a customer or an underwriter. Ten of the twelve are projects that finish inside a quarter on a fixed fee; two are retainers that provide continuing support. No discovery phase you pay for twice. No transformation to fund before anything improves — if one follows, it follows because the findings justified it.
Twelve of them. Each states its shape, the budget it comes out of — half are not funded from the security tooling line at all — and the edge where its scope stops.
Why now
Seven reasons people call, and what is behind each.
The CRA clock is running
The regulation reaches manufacturers placing products with digital elements on the EU market, including US companies selling through a distributor. Which of your products it covers, and which obligations apply, is a determination most have not made.
Reporting obligations apply from 11 September 2026 · main obligations from 11 December 2027
Your customers are asking first
Enterprise buyers and regulators now require SBOMs, provenance and SSDF or CMMC evidence from suppliers. The questionnaire arrives attached to a contract that is otherwise ready to sign.
The demand lands hardest on mid-size vendors and defense subcontractors, who are least equipped to answer it
Underwriters price what they can see
Insurers increasingly ask for SBOMs and supply chain controls before issuing or renewing, and price vendor risk into the premium. The conversation belongs to the CFO as much as the CISO.
Justified against premium exposure and renewal risk, not against a tooling budget
The window has closed
Attacker tooling now moves at machine speed through exactly the paths developers trust. Leadership asks one question when an advisory lands, and it is not a tooling question.
The axios, GhostAction and LiteLLM compromises all share one shape: "are we affected?" with no fast way to answer
The worst cases had no CVE
Compromised maintainer accounts, OAuth applications, reseller channels and retagged actions produce nothing for a scanner to match. Companies that only scan are discovering what that leaves uncovered.
33 of the 44 supply chain incidents we model had no CVE ever assigned
Nobody can defend the tool spend
Fifteen to thirty overlapping tools with tangled licensing, in a year when every line is being questioned. The easiest security sale in a flat budget is the one that removes spend.
On the SAST program we model, the license is 34% to 41% of what the tool actually costs
Choosing now locks you in for years
SCA, SAST and posture tools are folding into platforms. The selection made this year sets the architecture for the next several, and most of the advice available is vendor-funded.
We sell no licenses, hold no partner tiers and take no referral fees
The work
Twelve engagements, each with a shape you can approve and an edge you can hold us to.
Every one of them states what it is not, as plainly as what it is. Open any of them for the stages, what we need from you to hold the price, and where the scope stops.
- 01
Supply Chain Diagnostic
Why people call
The worst cases had no CVE
33 of the 44 supply chain incidents we model had no CVE ever assigned
You do not need a new pipeline to know exactly where you would bleed.
- Shape
- Two to three weeks, fixed fee
- Funded by
- CISO · Engineering
- 02
Estate Rationalization Review
Why people call
Nobody can defend the tool spend
On the SAST program we model, the license is 34% to 41% of what the tool actually costs
Find the duplicated spend before the renewal, not after it.
- Shape
- Three weeks, fixed fee
- Funded by
- CFO · CISO
- 03
First Ten Controls
Why people call
Your customers are asking first
The demand lands hardest on mid-size vendors and defense subcontractors, who are least equipped to answer it
Ten controls on the pipeline you already have, none of them blocking on day one.
- Shape
- Four to six weeks, fixed scope
- Funded by
- Engineering · CISO
- 04
Exposure Answer
Why people call
The window has closed
The axios, GhostAction and LiteLLM compromises all share one shape: "are we affected?" with no fast way to answer
When the next advisory lands, answer “are we affected” in hours rather than weeks.
- Shape
- Retainer, with a quarterly refresh
- Funded by
- CISO · Engineering
- 05
CRA Readiness Check
Why people call
The CRA clock is running
Reporting obligations apply from 11 September 2026 · main obligations from 11 December 2027
The obligations have dates. This establishes which ones you already miss.
- Shape
- Two to three weeks, fixed fee
- Funded by
- Compliance · Legal · CISO
- 06
Customer Evidence Pack
Why people call
Your customers are asking first
The demand lands hardest on mid-size vendors and defense subcontractors, who are least equipped to answer it
Answer the security questionnaire once, properly, and stop re-answering it.
- Shape
- Three to four weeks, fixed fee
- Funded by
- Compliance · CISO
- 07
Insurance Readiness Review
Why people call
Underwriters price what they can see
Justified against premium exposure and renewal risk, not against a tooling budget
Know what your underwriter will ask before they ask it.
- Shape
- Two weeks, fixed fee
- Funded by
- CFO · Compliance
- 08
Trust and Identity Audit
Why people call
The worst cases had no CVE
33 of the 44 supply chain incidents we model had no CVE ever assigned
Inventory the access an attacker would actually use. None of it has a CVE.
- Shape
- Two weeks, no pipeline change
- Funded by
- CISO · Engineering
- 09
AI Code Governance Starter
Why people call
The window has closed
The axios, GhostAction and LiteLLM compromises all share one shape: "are we affected?" with no fast way to answer
Your assistants are adopting dependencies faster than your policy covers them.
- Shape
- Three weeks, fixed scope
- Funded by
- Engineering · CISO
- 10
Choke Point Sprint
Why people call
Nobody can defend the tool spend
On the SAST program we model, the license is 34% to 41% of what the tool actually costs
Close one of the two boundaries, properly, in weeks — without touching the rest.
- Shape
- Four to six weeks on one choke point
- Funded by
- Engineering · CISO
- 11
“Would This Have Stopped It?”
Why people call
The worst cases had no CVE
33 of the 44 supply chain incidents we model had no CVE ever assigned
Walk the real kill chain of a public incident against the controls you actually run.
- Shape
- Half a day, on site or remote
- Funded by
- CISO · Engineering
- 12
Fractional Supply Chain Architect
Why people call
Choosing now locks you in for years
We sell no licenses, hold no partner tiers and take no referral fees
Senior supply chain judgment by the slice, for teams that cannot hire it.
- Shape
- Retainer, typically two days a month
- Funded by
- CISO · Engineering
Start here
Not sure which one? Start with the diagnostic.
Two to three weeks, fixed fee. You get your pipeline modeled as it actually runs, exposures ranked by what is reachable rather than by CVSS, and a phased plan costed by phase — with phase one sized to the budget you have this year rather than the one you would need. The model stays yours, and every later engagement starts from it.
Every engagement here states what it is not, as plainly as what it is. If the honest answer is that you do not need us yet, that is in the scope too.