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AI security architecture
Map models, agents, data, vendors, and identities into a control plane that your business and technical teams can run. Define access boundaries before automation becomes exposure.
01 / Security-led AI leadership
AI velocity.Security discipline.
Fractional AI leadership for companies moving faster than their risk model. We turn executive ambition into secure systems, governed agents, and an operating advantage your team can actually own.
01 / AI STRATEGY
02 / AGENT SECURITY
03 / GOVERNANCE
04 / EXECUTIVE READINESS
02 / THE MANDATE
A senior AI function—without the senior AI headcount.
Built for leadership teams that need decisions, controls, and delivery—not another pile of slideware. Security leads the engagement; growth and automation follow.
S.02
Agentic defense
Deploy and operationalize an agent-focused defensive layer with clear alert paths, human escalation, and executive-level reporting.
Featuring Cyberchain’s Agentic Defender, listed in ClawHub
S.03
Governance & red-team readiness
Set acceptable-use policy, vendor review, risk tiers, testing standards, and incident ownership. Stress-test the workflows that matter before they fail in production.
S.04
AI operating strategy
Prioritize the opportunities with defensible economics, appoint accountable owners, and install a delivery cadence that turns scattered experiments into a managed portfolio.
03 / OPERATING RHYTHM
From exposure to operating control.
The first month creates visibility and decision rights. The retainer keeps the system moving—securely, measurably, and with an executive at the table.
Expose
Build the real inventory: where AI touches data, customers, decisions, and credentials.
- Executive risk interview
- AI and agent surface map
- Priority exposure register
Control
Translate risk into architecture, policy, ownership, and response paths the team will use.
- Control-plane blueprint
- Agent permission model
- Escalation and response design
Compound
Run the AI portfolio as a leadership function: review, prioritize, test, and improve.
- Monthly executive review
- Delivery and vendor oversight
- Continuous defense tuning
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The goal isn’t slower AI. It’s AI that can survive contact with the real business.
THE FRACTIONAL ICONS OPERATING PRINCIPLE
Human authority stays explicit
Define which decisions an agent can make, what needs approval, and who owns the outcome when the system behaves unexpectedly.
Data boundaries are designed
Separate sensitive data, privileged tools, and customer-facing workflows before they become a single broad trust zone.
Response is rehearsed
Give security, operations, and leadership one shared path from detection to containment, recovery, and stakeholder communication.
Value remains measurable
Tie each AI initiative to an owner, a baseline, an economic target, and a risk tier—then make continuation a deliberate decision.
04 / MONTHLY RETAINERS
Choose the level of ownership.
Three security-led engagements, each with reserved senior capacity and a defined overage rate. Sentinel begins with a two-week AI Security Readiness Audit; Fortress and Citadel add deeper governance, executive presence, and response commitments.
TIER 01BASELINE
Sentinel
$8,000 / month
24 HOURS / MO · $350/HR OVERAGE
For companies deploying their first agents or Copilot rollouts and needing a defensible AI-security baseline.
3-MONTH MINIMUM · THEN MONTH-TO-MONTH · 30-DAY NOTICE · UP TO 25% ROLLOVER
- Shadow-AI and AI-use inventory
- Acceptable-use policy and NIST AI RMF-aligned risk register
- Agent inventory and access-policy baseline for up to 10 agents
- Monthly 90-minute governance review
- 48-hour async advisory response
- Quarterly AI security posture report
- $4,500 two-week readiness audit, credited on conversion
TIER 02CORE
Fortress
$9,500 / month
28 HOURS / MO · $375/HR OVERAGE
The fractional AI-security leadership tier: strategy, governance, and managed enforcement.
6-MONTH INITIAL TERM · 10% QUARTERLY PREPAY SAVINGS · 25% ROLLOVER
- Everything in Sentinel
- Named fractional AI leader and biweekly executive 1:1
- AI roadmap and written vendor/model evaluations
- Managed agent governance and quarterly access review
- Annual agentic-AI security assessment
- NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act, and ISO 42001 gap plan
- Two team workshops per quarter
- Quarterly board-ready risk and value pack
- 48-hour AI security incident-response SLA
TIER 03ENTERPRISE
Citadel
$18,000 / month
52 HOURS / MO · $400/HR OVERAGE
For regulated industries and agent-heavy organizations needing an enterprise-grade fractional CAIO.
12-MONTH MINIMUM · MULTIYEAR PREFERRED · 25% ROLLOVER
- Everything in Fortress
- Weekly executive 1:1 and monthly steering cadence
- AI governance committee participation
- Up to four board meetings per year
- Annual priority-agent red-team assessment at cost-plus
- M&A AI due-diligence support
- 24-hour P0 AI incident-response SLA
- Multi-cloud agent-estate coverage and custom policy packs
- Additional business units available at $3,000/month each
05 / FIT
For leaders who need an owner, not an advisor.
The right engagement has executive sponsorship, meaningful data or automation risk, and a mandate to change how AI is governed and delivered.
Who is this designed for?
Founder-led, private-equity-backed, and mid-market companies with active AI initiatives—but without a senior operator accountable for strategy, security, and execution across the portfolio.
Why begin with security?
Because AI adoption changes the attack surface, the data boundary, and the decision chain at the same time. Security creates the operating constraints that let the rest of the portfolio move with confidence.
What is Agentic Defender?
It is an agentic security product created by Cyberchain and made available in ClawHub. The engagement can include planning and operational support around its use as part of a broader AI security program.
How does the retainer work?
Each engagement begins with a scoped security review. Ongoing work is structured as a premium monthly retainer with recurring billing and reserved strategy time once the engagement terms are approved.