Briefings

Field notes from the GTM front line.

Short, unsentimental writing about what’s actually working — and what isn’t — when technical security companies sell to skeptical enterprise buyers.

BRF-014
Positioning

Why your AI security startup sounds like every other AI security startup.

Six interchangeable category labels are doing the work that one defensible position should do. Here's how to pick the one nobody else can claim.

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BRF-013
CISO Buying

What a CISO actually reads on your homepage in the first 18 seconds.

Eye-tracking from twelve enterprise security buyers, mapped to the headlines you almost certainly wrote.

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BRF-012
Narrative

Pilot purgatory is a story problem, not a product problem.

Three POCs that closed and three that didn't, with the only variable being how the deal was framed at week one.

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BRF-011
Federal → Commercial

From mission language to enterprise language without losing the credibility.

How ex-NSA founders should talk about provenance to commercial buyers who don't care about clearances.

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Previous engagements

Trusted by operators who know the difference between noise and signal.

The Security Bulldog
RedSeal
RunSafe
Microsoft
British Telecom
Zebra
NormShield

Engagements span advisory positioning, investor narrative refinement, enterprise GTM hardening, and competitive differentiation for technical security teams. Not all engagements are public — some operate under discretion.