Track Record · Honest Framing
Where the experience came from before the platform.
PolicyCortex is pre-customer on the platform. We are open about that – defense buyers can spot vendor BS from a mile away. The trust anchor is the founder's 11 years of cleared cybersecurity delivery, hands-on, before this company existed. That is the work shown below.
Prior delivery
What the founder actually did, before PolicyCortex.
Prior role · Federal R&D Center (DoD-sponsored)
Cybersecurity engineering on federal cyber programs
NIST 800-53 / 800-171 control implementation, ATO support, and federal cybersecurity engineering across DoD and federal civilian sponsors.
Direct exposure to how federal assessors, ISSOs, and AOs actually run evaluations - the same workflow PolicyCortex now automates.
Prior roles · Fortune 100 financial services & aviation
Cloud infrastructure & security engineer
Cloud security at scale across SOC 2, PCI DSS 4.0, GLBA, and aviation-regulated workloads. Production cloud architecture serving regulated industries.
Built the muscle of running compliance and security continuously rather than as a quarterly audit prep exercise - the operating model PolicyCortex codifies.
Specific named references from these engagements are available on the second call after a signed NDA. The founder's prior employers (LANL, MITRE, USAA, Frontier Airlines) are listed publicly on the About Leo page.
Be one of our first pilot customers — 50% off.
We are looking for our first three reference pilots. The 30-day done-for-you pilot is normally $15,000 flat. For the first three customers who let us reference the engagement (anonymized or named – your call), it is $7,500.
You get the same scope: cleared founder oversight, 110+ NIST 800-171 controls run on PolicyCortex, SSP / POA&M auto-built from your live environment, and a C3PAO-ready evidence package. The trade-off is that the work happens in tight collaboration with us, your feedback shapes the product, and we get to publish the outcome (with your consent over what we publish).
Honest conversation
We'd rather earn your trust than fake it.
Book the call. We will show you PolicyCortex on a test environment, walk through the founder's prior cleared delivery, and tell you whether you should be a design partner or wait for the platform to have a longer customer list.