Buy security smarter. Sell security faster.
We fix security problems for enterprises and build go-to-market for the vendors who solve them. One network, both sides of the table.
CISOs, founders, and investors already sit at this table.
Trusted by security operators, investors, & founders across the AI and cybersecurity ecosystem.
Four practices. One partner.
Security leadership, buying power, people, and go-to-market from one firm. Every engagement runs through a senior operator who has held the seat.
Virtual CISO & Advisory
Virtual CISO (vCISO) leadership on demand. Strategy, risk, compliance readiness, board reporting, and incident response leadership, run by an operator who holds the seat today.
Security Procurement & Resale
We buy security for a living. Vendor strategy, contract negotiation, stack consolidation, and licensing. The overspend ends here.
Implementation & Managed Services
Security designed, implemented and run, with vetted engineers and specialists found through the network that already knows who is good.
GTM Engine
Positioning, pipeline, and events for cybersecurity vendors. You start inside the room everyone else is renting booths to reach.
What the work looks like.
Client work across all four practices, delivered by operators who hold the seat.
See how we work
The same negotiation leverage we use on our own renewals goes into every procurement engagement.
higher demo-to-close ratio.
Security leadership on demand.
vCISO leadership from an operator who holds the seat today. Strategy, risk, compliance readiness, and board reporting.
→Buy the right security.
We buy security for a living. Vendor strategy, contract negotiation, and stack consolidation. The overspend ends here.
→Sharper positioning. Stronger pipeline.
You start inside the room everyone else is renting booths to reach.
→The pitch was the problem
Technical pitch deck overloaded with jargon. Prospects could not connect features to outcomes.
Redefined the value proposition. Rebuilt the narrative around the CISO risk lens and business impact.
Secured 3 enterprise pilots in 45 days. 3.5x higher demo-to-close ratio.
Operators who ship outcomes.
Vetted security engineers, analysts, and fractional specialists, found through the network that already knows who is good.
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Saving $2M by killing a feature nobody wanted
Engineering spent 8 months building a compliance dashboard on a hunch.
Stress-tested the concept with 5 Fortune 500 CISOs. Verdict: nice to have, would never pay for it.
Resources moved to the automation module the market was begging for. Launched to buyers already asking for it.
Built by CISOs.
Tuned for GTM.
Every playbook maps product, narrative, and motion to how CISOs buy.
You start inside the roomeveryone elseis rentingbooths toreach.
The room
is the moat.
A salon nearly every week. Security leaders, founders, and investors in the same room, in the markets where security budgets live. When Alchemy takes you to market, you are not cold-calling the industry. You are being introduced to it.
Insights from
the seat.
Perspectives from the front lines of security.
The House problem in the boardroom.
A field CISO’s take on what’s really wrong with most security programs.
Kevin McCallister won on a floor plan, not a budget.
Lessons in resilience, preparation, and thinking three moves ahead.
Every fire gets a commander. Most breaches don't.
Why prevention always costs less than response.
Alchemy Cyber active membership
Standards bodies, security communities, and affiliate communities we hold active seats in.
AIUC-1
FS-ISAC
OECD
World Economic Forum
NIST
ISC2
ISACA
IAPP
Cloud Security Alliance
Professional Association of CISOs
Global Council for Responsible AI
ISSA
OWASP
InfraGard
Israeli Startup Advisory Network
Nasdaq Center for Board Excellence
TiE
SANS CISO Network
SIM Bay Area Chapter
The Purple Book Community
Vision and VoicesNot logos on a wall. Seats in the room, worked every week.
The whole firm, in twelve pages.
Four practices, the rooms we run, and how an engagement starts. One PDF, nothing to fill in.
Bring the problem. Leave with a path.
A 30-minute call, a straight read on where you stand, and a one-page proposal. No decks about our decks.
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