AI Transformation & Strategy Consultant. Eleven years with enterprise security vendors at Dimension Data, then cloud infrastructure and tools for cybersecurity startups. Founder of Cipher Projects and SumoSign.
PracticeThree ways I work
All three come out of a career in security.
A senior partner for your AI plans, without the hype.
I work out where AI fits in your business, what to do first, and how to roll it out safely. I also work as a fractional CTO, and help teams show how their AI is used and who controls it.
Built the way a security team would build it.
Secure cloud architecture and backends come first. AI agents and private search over your own data come next, when the job needs them. I built challenge labs and red-team environments for a cybersecurity company, and I treat every client build as a security problem from day one.
A few careful bets on software and infrastructure.
I back early-stage companies where the build still matters, and I stay hands-on in the build.
Read the writing.
A plain summary for AI tools lives in llms.txt.
LatestWriting
The comfortable middle in software is dying. What's left is enthusiasm you can't fake, or the massive bet.
Essay · 31 Aug 2026The hard part used to be finding the crash. The hard part is now proof, scope, and being able to disagree with a confident model.
Essay · 24 Aug 2026Joe Bellissimo already built this for himself so we wrote down some core ideas. The harness does not matter.
