Velocity Architecture & EngineeringThe promise of AI is velocity.
The limit is trust.
Organizations are adding AI to systems built for a slower world, and security vendors are selling tools that can't keep up with the problems it creates. Velocity Architecture & Engineering designs your people, process and technology for maximum velocity and maximum trust while minimizing decay.
Leadership · Hands-On Engineering & Development · Workshops
Why It's Hard
AI Security Isn't a Tooling Problem
Most organizations are struggling with AI somewhere: citizen developers and local models compromising endpoints, data leaking everywhere, security teams trying to keep up with increasingly sophisticated and automated attacks.
Meanwhile, every security vendor is at your door promising the world. What they leave behind is a pile of hard-to-use tools filled with false positives, false negatives, thin documentation and a limited understanding of the real issues. Don’t worry though. When you point it out they will tell you that is in their other product you need to buy.
Success with AI in engineering and security doesn’t come from tools. Most of the return on your AI investment, and for your users comes from understanding its potential and its limits. The research points the same way: RAND found that more than 80% of AI projects fail, twice the rate of other IT projects, and the leading causes are misunderstanding the problem and chasing the technology instead of solving it.
That’s why we designed Velocity Architecture. If you aren’t seeing the value from AI yet, that’s no surprise: the velocity of your people, process and technology depends on trust, and if you can’t trust the output, you can’t gain velocity.
The Method
Velocity Architecture
& Engineering
AI is a general-purpose technology, not a new tool. It pays off when the work is redesigned around it, and that redesign is limited by trust in the systems, the data, the people and the agents acting for them.
- Threat Modeling + Velocity Modeling = Velocity Architecture
- Threat modeling finds the trust boundaries; velocity modeling finds the trust limits
- People first: AI should increase human capability without decreasing human understanding
- Math, not just intuition: limits you can measure, move and keep
The Paper
Velocity Architecture: Defining the Limits of Trust
Why AI is not a tooling problem. Written for executives, business owners and architects; no technical background assumed.
Read the PaperServices
What We Do
Three ways we bring Velocity Architecture & Engineering to your business and your teams.
Leadership
A senior leader for security, infrastructure and development, fractional or full-time
An experienced leader who owns security, infrastructure and development alongside your executives and teams, covering strategy, governance, risk and the AI policy most organizations still don't have. Fractional or full-time, at the commitment you need.
Hands-On Engineering & Development
Security engineers and developers who do the work with your team
Red teaming, penetration testing, security architecture and software for your applications, identity and AI systems, from a single engagement to engineers embedded with your team.
Workshops
Hands-on training for leaders and engineering teams
Hands-on workshops for your leaders, engineers, and citizen developers. Threat Modeling, Secure DevOps, Velocity Architecture Assessments and Training.
Resources
Our Research
Papers and posts on AI, security and the trust between them.
Velocity Architecture
Defining the limits of trust: why AI is not a tooling problem, and what to do about it.
Read the paperBlog
Notes on AI security, agents and the threats that come with them.
Read the blogTalk to Us
Not sure where to start? Tell us about your systems, your AI plans and where you think the risk is.
Get in touchYour Team Is Already
Building With AI.
Do You Know Its Limits?
Understand your limits and potential before an attacker or competitor does.