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Fractional CISO

A security program that closes enterprise deals — without a full-time security executive.

Security is the thing blocking your next deal

A big customer won't sign without SOC 2 / ISO 27001 and no one owns getting there.

Security questionnaires pile up and eat engineering weeks to answer.

Security is a pile of ad-hoc controls with no policy, no owner, and no evidence.

The board or a recent incident has made risk a top-three concern overnight.

The company handles sensitive data and has no defensible answer to "are we secure?"

What you get

Not hours on a timesheet — decisions made, systems shipped, and a program that works.

SOC 2 path, named

A path to SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 with a named owner, realistic timeline, and auditor selection.

Questionnaires as an asset

A maintained answer library so security questionnaires take hours, not weeks — turned into a sales accelerator.

Real risk picture

What matters, what's accepted, what's being fixed — in writing. A risk register that's live and owned.

Incident readiness

A response plan, roles, runbook, and tabletop exercise that exists before it's needed.

Three shapes, one operator

Start where the pain is acute. Scale as trust is established.

CISO Advisory

~2 days/mo equivalent, async

$6,000 – $9,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Risk assessments and policy authorship
  • Security questionnaire responses
  • Architecture review and vendor risk
  • Async support; 1 live sync per month (max)
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CISO Embedded

~1 day/week

$9,000 – $13,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Everything in Advisory
  • Drive a named program (SOC 2 / ISO 27001)
  • Incident-response program standup
  • Vendor-risk program ownership
  • Evidence collection platform selection

Fractional CISO

~1.5 days/week

$13,000 – $16,000

per month · 3-month minimum


  • Everything in Embedded
  • Owns the security function
  • Compliance calendar and risk register
  • Vendor/tooling ownership
  • Board security reporting
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Security Posture Assessment

$4,000 fixed fee

A 2-week risk assessment, control gap analysis, and questionnaire audit. You leave with a prioritized plan and auditor recommendation — whether we work together or not. SOC 2 readiness-to-audit can also be scoped as a fixed-fee program ($25K–$60K depending on scope). Credits toward the first month of a retainer.

Your first 90 days

A predictable ramp with clear deliverables at each phase.

1

Weeks 1–2 — Assess

Risk assessment, control gap analysis, questionnaire audit. Deliver Security Posture Assessment and the plan.

2

Weeks 3–4 — Foundations

Publish the policy set; stand up the risk register and questionnaire answer library; fix top access and logging gaps.

3

Weeks 5–8 — Program

Implement priority controls; select auditor and tooling; run the incident response tabletop.

4

Weeks 9–12 — Readiness

Enter SOC 2 observation window or ISO Stage 1. Deliver the first board security report. Decide: continue through audit as Embedded or step up to Fractional-in-a-box.

Not the right fit?

We are selective about engagements. This may not be right if:

No enterprise motion and no regulated data — you may not need this yet.

Wants a purely check-the-box audit with zero intent to actually reduce risk.

Needs someone available on-demand all day — our model is async by design (with a defined incident escalation path).

Ready to move?

The discovery call is free. We scope the engagement together, and you leave with a clear picture whether or not we work together.

Fractional CTO, CIO, CISO and AI Agent Engineering. Executive-level technology leadership for companies that need a senior technical partner without a full-time hire.

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