Trenchant Cyber exists for organizations that refuse to pour their most sensitive data into someone else's black box. We design and deploy AI systems that run on infrastructure you control — on-prem, air-gapped, or wherever the data already lives — for legal, healthcare, finance, and defense teams who can't treat compliance as an afterthought. Security discipline isn't a feature we bolted on. It's the foundation everything else was built on top of.
Twenty-two years of active-duty service, every one of them in technology and security — building and defending systems in environments where there was no acceptable margin for failure. That standard doesn't come off with the uniform.
The decade since has run through government, financial services, healthcare, and mobile ad tech — leading SOC operations, carrying compliance rograms through SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification, and learning firsthand how differently "secure" gets defined across industries. Trenchant Cyber is the result: a firm built on the belief that AI adoption and security rigor aren't in tension, and that nothing leaves here that wouldn't pass the same bar we'd demand for ourselves.
Six principles that decide what we build, what we refuse, and how we work.
We build systems our clients own — weights, code, and keys. Independence is the product.
Every automated action is logged, explainable, and undoable. Trust comes from being able to look.
Security, AI, and data work all meet the same bar. No weak link between the practices.
HIPAA, SOC 2, NIST aren't add-ons. They're the floor everything else is built on.
Tight scopes, honest timelines, and explicit boundaries. We tell you what's not included, too.
Default to keeping data where it already lives. The cloud is an option, never an assumption.
No layers, no handoffs to juniors. The people who scope your work are the people who do it.
Strategy, architecture, and the client relationship
Agents · inference · RAG · ReAct
Detection · IR · red team · Automation
Pipelines · web · mobile · SSDLC
Trenchant Cyber is led by a military veteran with 22 years of active-duty service — all of it in technology and security — plus a decade on the civilian side across government, financial, healthcare, and mobile ad tech, paired with a team of AI and data engineers who've shipped at scale.
We exist for the firms and operators who refuse to pour their most sensitive data into someone else's foundation model. Your data is your business — we make sure it stays that way.
Empower businesses with local, sovereign AI tooling that respects privilege, compliance, and ownership.
By 2030, lead the on-prem agent platform category for regulated and IP-sensitive industries.
Agents are only useful when they're reversible, auditable, and confined to your perimeter. We engineer for all three.
Run it in your DC, on your hardware, under your keys. Hybrid or Cloud when you choose, not dictated by the vendor.
Thirty-minute call. We'll map your security, AI, and data needs, find the two or three places we add immediate leverage, and show you what working together looks like.