RedCell Advisory
Advisory for organizations that cannot afford to guess about AI
This is our primary business: advising serious organizations on AI risk, cyber modernization, governance, secure adoption, resilience, and the operating models that hold it all together. Evidence-based, practitioner-led, and written for the rooms where decisions actually get made.
How we engage
Assessments that end in decisions, not decks
Most engagements begin with a focused assessment — of an AI portfolio, a security program, or a specific decision leadership is facing. From there, work typically moves into a sequenced roadmap and, where it earns its place, ongoing advisory. We stay small and senior by design: the person in your briefing is the person who did the work.
Focused assessment
A bounded, evidence-based look at a system, program, or decision — delivered in weeks, with findings ranked by consequence.
Strategic roadmap
A sequenced plan with owners, dependencies, and checkpoints. Built to be funded and executed, not framed.
Retained advisory
Ongoing counsel for CISOs, Heads of AI, and executive teams — architecture reviews, vendor calls, board preparation, and the judgment calls in between.
Advisory services
Seventeen ways in, one standard of rigor
Every service below produces something concrete: a decision framework, a governance model, a roadmap, or a documented risk position. Slideware is not a deliverable.
AI and Cyber Strategy
Aligns AI adoption and cybersecurity investment into a single, defensible strategy. We assess current posture, define the target state, and produce a plan the board can approve and practitioners can execute.
Executive AI Risk Advisory
Direct counsel for executives making AI decisions under uncertainty: what to approve, what to defer, and what conditions to attach. Produces decision criteria and risk-acceptance thresholds grounded in threat evidence rather than vendor claims.
CISO and Head of AI Advisory
Retained, practitioner-led support for security and AI leaders: architecture reviews, control decisions, vendor evaluations, and board preparation. Functions as a senior extension of the leader's own team.
Board AI and Cyber Risk Briefings
Structured briefings that give directors a working understanding of the organization's AI and cyber exposure, the oversight questions to ask management, and the metrics that show whether the program is working.
AI Security Program Design
Designs the policies, controls, roles, and review gates that govern how AI systems are built, bought, and operated. Sized to your organization and risk profile rather than lifted from a generic template.
AI Governance Operating Model
Defines who decides what across AI intake, risk review, approval, and ongoing monitoring, with escalation paths and accountability mapped to your existing governance structures and aligned to NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 concepts.
Secure AI Adoption Roadmap
A sequenced plan for adopting AI capabilities with controls built in from the start: use-case prioritization, control prerequisites per phase, and checkpoints that keep deployment velocity honest about risk.
Shadow AI Risk Strategy
Assesses where unsanctioned AI tools are already in use across the organization and what data is flowing into them. Produces a strategy that channels employee demand into governed alternatives rather than relying on prohibition alone.
Cyber Program Modernization
Evaluates an existing security program against current threats, including AI-enabled attackers, and produces a prioritized modernization plan covering controls, tooling, staffing, and process.
Critical Infrastructure Cyber Advisory
Advisory for operators of energy, water, transportation, and industrial environments where IT, OT, and AI systems converge. Focused on operational resilience where downtime is a safety issue, not an inconvenience.
Healthcare AI and Cyber Risk Advisory
Guidance for health systems and health-technology companies deploying AI near clinical workflows and protected health information, aligned to HIPAA obligations and patient-safety expectations.
Financial Services AI Risk Advisory
Advisory for banks, insurers, and fintechs on AI-assisted decisioning, model risk, and third-party AI exposure. Prepares risk documentation and controls that stand up to regulatory examination.
Public-Sector AI Security Advisory
Supports government and public-sector organizations adopting AI under procurement, transparency, and compliance constraints that commercial playbooks ignore. Experience advising complex enterprise and public-sector environments.
AI Vendor and Platform Risk Review
Evidence-based evaluation of AI vendors, models, and platforms before contracts are signed: data handling, security architecture, contractual controls, and exit considerations. Produces a documented risk position for each decision.
AI Incident Readiness Advisory
Prepares your organization to respond when an AI system fails, misbehaves, or is attacked: response playbooks, escalation criteria, communication plans, and tabletop-ready scenarios tested before you need them.
Cyber Resilience Planning
Planning for operating through disruption: business impact analysis, recovery priorities, dependency mapping, and resilience exercises that test assumptions before an incident does.
AI Risk Quantification
An emerging practice area: translating AI risk into loss-exposure terms that executives and boards can weigh against other enterprise risks. Currently offered as a structured pilot within broader advisory engagements.
Deliverables
What you receive
Advisory output is written twice from the same evidence: once for the executives who must decide, once for the practitioners who must execute. Both audiences get material they can use without translation.
- Executive briefings calibrated to your board and leadership team
- Risk and maturity assessments with evidence-based findings
- Strategic roadmaps sequenced by risk, dependency, and feasibility
- Governance and operating models mapped to your organization
- Control recommendations tied to recognized frameworks
- Board-ready reporting materials
- Technical architecture guidance for AI and security teams
- Prioritized, remediation-focused action plans
- Training and enablement roadmap for your teams
Who we work with
Built for the people accountable when AI goes wrong
Executives own the risk. Practitioners own the systems. Our engagements are designed to hold up in front of both.
CISO
AI adoption is outpacing your control set, and the board is asking questions your current assessments don't answer.
Start here: AI security program design and an AI red team of your highest-exposure system.
Head of AI
You need to ship AI capability without becoming the subject of the next incident review.
Start here: Secure adoption roadmap plus adversarial testing before launch.
CIO / CTO
Vendors are embedding AI into everything you run, and nobody can say what that changed about your risk posture.
Start here: AI vendor and platform risk review with an AI asset inventory.
GRC and Audit Leaders
ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the EU AI Act are converging on you, and the AI inventory doesn't exist yet.
Start here: AI governance operating model and framework readiness assessment.
Security Engineering / AppSec
Product teams are wiring LLMs into workflows faster than your threat models can follow.
Start here: AI threat modeling and secure AI SDLC integration.
Board Members
You're expected to oversee AI risk with briefings that are either too vague or too technical to act on.
Start here: A board-level AI and cyber risk briefing in plain, decision-ready language.
Frameworks
Aligned to the frameworks your auditors already speak
We map advisory work to recognized frameworks so the output plugs into your existing governance and compliance machinery. Framework references describe alignment only — they do not imply certification, endorsement, or partnership with any framework owner.
- OWASP GenAI
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- NIST AI RMF
- NIST GenAI Profile
- ISO/IEC 42001
- MITRE ATLAS
- NIST CSF
- CIS Controls
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2
- CMMC
- HIPAA
- PCI DSS
- GDPR
- EU AI Act
- FedRAMP
Request a confidential advisory call
Tell us what you are deciding, building, or worried about. We respond from info@cyai.io within one business day — and we treat first conversations as confidential by default.