Strategic Intelligence
Understand the field before committing capital, changing direction or entering a market.
Explore Strategic Intelligence↗CYBER AGENCY
Expand what your organization can do.
Cyber Agency works with founders, executives and investors facing consequential questions about technology, markets and security. We research the situation, determine what matters, and carry the work into systems, products and operations.
Founders + ExecutivesInvestors + Family OfficesTechnology + Security Leaders
The gap
Technology is moving faster than most organizations can absorb it.
AI can research, write software, operate tools and coordinate long-running work. Models and infrastructure improve every month. Access to the technology is no longer the main constraint.
+Which problems deserve attention?
◇What information can a system use?
⌁Who has authority to act?
□Where does human judgment remain essential?
Practices
Three connected practices
The problem decides which disciplines are needed. Cyber Agency keeps the central problem intact and brings in the disciplines required to solve it.
AI Systems + Cybersecurity
Build useful AI around the organization as it actually operates.
Explore AI Systems + Cybersecurity↗Products + Ventures
Create the product or business that a change in technology has made possible.
Explore Products + Ventures↗Agency
Intelligence is useful when it changes what you can do.
Research should improve a decision. Technology should improve an operation. Security should give the organization confidence to move. A product should create durable value.
Intelligence
Research, diligence and technical judgment for decisions that cannot be made from surface information.
Build
Systems, products and workflows carried into working use by a team assembled for the problem.
Operate
Ongoing ownership of intelligence functions, AI systems, security, evaluation and technical improvement.
Who we work with
Senior people with something important to get right.
Some relationships begin with a defined assignment. Others begin with an important situation that still needs to be framed.
Founders + Executives
For new capabilities, difficult decisions, stalled products and technical work that crosses normal departmental boundaries.
Investors + Family Offices
For market and technology intelligence, diligence, portfolio-company AI, cybersecurity and product intervention.
Technology + Security Leaders
For private AI, organizational knowledge, agent architecture, security controls and systems that must work inside existing operations.
Founder
Built by an operator.
Brad Khan / Founder
Cyber Agency was founded by Brad Khan, a systems entrepreneur and technologist with roughly twenty years of experience across company building, product, engineering, enterprise technology, AI and technical leadership.
Cyber Agency brings that range into one company built for work that does not fit neatly inside a single discipline.
More than $60 millionHis work includes more than $60 million in technology initiatives across Fortune 500 companies and startups, along with helping young companies raise capital and bring products to market.
Principles
Principles
Useful knowledge, software, documentation and internal understanding should accumulate through the work.
Start with what is happening. Choose the disciplines required after the situation is understood.
Commercial, open, cloud, local, deterministic or agentic systems each have their place.
Identity, access, data, architecture and human authority matter from the beginning.
Models and vendors change. Important architecture should leave room to move.
Proprietary knowledge, relationships, software, data and operating methods deserve different treatment from commodity infrastructure.
Useful knowledge, software, documentation and internal understanding should accumulate through the work.
Tell us what you are trying to make possible.
You do not need a polished brief. Start with the situation, why it matters and what is getting in the way.