Pragmatic, Velocity-Based Security Services
Semantic Gravity Consulting delivers senior security leadership and hands-on engineering in a focused 20–40 hr/month engagement. Work directly with Brett Earley (25 years in security and software development) to unblock enterprise revenue and secure your stack.
Predictable 20–40 Hour Monthly Retainers
No long-term lock-ins, no equity dilution, and no junior handoffs. Choose between dedicated sales unblocking or a fully embedded fractional security lead.
Sales Unblocking & Security Questionnaires
Purpose-built for startups that need to clear enterprise security reviews, complete buyer questionnaires fast, and close deals without hiring full-time security staff.
- End-to-end ownership of customer security questionnaires (SIG, CAIQ, custom RFPs)
- Direct participation on enterprise buyer CISO & security review calls
- SOC 2 readiness, security policies, and customer trust-package creation
- Targeted remediation advisory to resolve customer deal-breakers quickly
Fractional Embedded Security Lead
Comprehensive embedded security leadership for scaling startups—combining full sales unblocking with hands-on pen testing, architecture, CI/CD, and cloud engineering.
- Everything in Tier 1 (Sales Unblocking & Security Questionnaires)
- Weekly embedded sprint cadence, architecture reviews, and threat modeling
- Hands-on pen testing, code/cloud remediation, and CI/CD pipeline setup
- Cloud architecture hardening, team advisory, and incident response leadership
Eight Services Across Your Fractional Retainer
We allocate your 20–40 monthly hours dynamically across these eight capabilities based on what moves the needle most for your startup each month.
Unblocking Sales Deals
Turn enterprise security reviews from bottlenecks into closed revenue
Enterprise buyers demand rigorous security proof before signing. I join your sales calls directly, represent your security posture to customer CISOs, complete questionnaires, and guide pragmatic SOC 2 / compliance readiness.
Pen Testing
Offensive testing tuned to your actual product and threat surface
Move beyond generic automated scans. I perform deep manual and automated penetration testing across your web applications, APIs, authentication flows, and cloud environments—and manage third-party attestation tests when required by buyers.
Architecture Reviews
Catch design flaws before they become expensive rewrites
With 25 years of software development and security experience, I review your system designs, RFCs, and data flows to ensure security is built into the foundation without over-engineering.
Remediation
Hands-on fixes in code and infrastructure—not just a list of problems
Startups don’t have spare engineering cycles to decipher cryptic security reports. I roll up my sleeves alongside your developers to design, write, and verify fixes across application code and cloud configuration.
CI/CD Pipeline Setup
Automated, high-signal security guardrails that respect developer velocity
We wire security checks directly into your pull requests and deployment pipelines so vulnerabilities and leaked secrets are caught in seconds—without drowning developers in noisy alerts.
Cloud Architecture
Resilient, least-privilege infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes
Your cloud environment should scale cleanly while keeping blast radius minimal. I review and harden your production cloud footprint for both real-world defense and audit readiness.
Team Advisory
Embedded mentorship and fractional leadership for your engineering org
I act as an on-call security partner for your CTO, tech leads, and developers—answering daily architecture questions in Slack and building a self-sustaining security culture.
Incident Response
Preparedness before an event, veteran calm during one
When a potential security incident or customer inquiry hits, minutes matter. I establish lightweight, actionable response playbooks and provide hands-on triage and containment leadership when needed.
Neuro-Symbolic AI Systems & Forensic Discovery
In addition to fractional startup security advisory, Semantic Gravity Consulting maintains specialized research and advisory capabilities in explainable neuro-symbolic AI architectures and deep forensic discovery for complex technical investigations.