Why C3

Solving the CISO’s impossible job.

A Personal AIC3 reduces cognitive load, accelerates decisions, and extends your strategic reach—without taking your hand off the wheel.

Modern reality

The world you’re operating in isn’t normal.

The modern CISO reality

  • Constant incidents and escalations pulling you into the weeds.
  • Regulatory, legal, and board stakeholders with competing demands.
  • Tool and vendor sprawl that has outpaced your team’s bandwidth.
  • Talent gaps in cloud, identity, data, OT, and privacy.
  • No protected time to think deeply, design strategy, or grow successors.

The human bottleneck

You are both the shield and the translator. You carry operational detail and strategic narrative in the same head, all day, every day. That has a cost. The job is now impossible to do alone at the level your organization expects.

Augmented judgment

You stay the decision-maker. The C3 scales your judgment.

I’m not interested in replacing CISOs. I’m interested in building augmented leaders. Your Personal C3 doesn’t remove your responsibility—it helps you carry it more intelligently.

  • Surfaces options with pros/cons and risk trade-offs.
  • Structures complex problems into clear, actionable plans.
  • Keeps track of your principles, priorities, and red lines.

You still sign off. You still own the risk. You simply no longer have to do all the heavy cognitive lifting alone.

What it does

Concrete outputs, not vague “AI magic.”

Board & executive communication

  • Drafts board decks, talking points, and FAQs.
  • Translates technical risk into executive-ready narratives.
  • Helps you anticipate questions and objections before they land.

Strategy, roadmaps & incident support

  • Develops security strategy documents and multi-year roadmaps.
  • Outlines Zero Trust, data protection, identity, or cloud programs.
  • Generates incident response playbooks and tabletop scenarios.
  • Drafts internal and external comms during active events.

Beyond security operations, your C3 also supports your personal leverage: capturing and refining your ideas, speeches, and strategic memos so they don’t get lost in the noise of the day.

Use cases

How a Personal C3 shows up in your week.

Board meeting in 48 hours

  • C3 reviews your existing metrics and prior decks (where permitted).
  • Suggests a focused narrative and structure for the upcoming board session.
  • Drafts slides and speaking notes you refine and finalize.

New regulation just landed

  • Summarizes the regulation into executive-ready bullet points.
  • Maps potential impact on your current security program.
  • Proposes a phased response with milestones and owners.

Cloud breach scenario

  • Generates IR playbooks and runbooks for different severities.
  • Offers tabletop scenarios for your leadership and technical teams.
  • Prepares draft communications for internal and external stakeholders.

Everyday leadership leverage

  • Turns raw notes into clear narratives and action lists.
  • Preps you for key conversations with concise briefs.
  • Helps maintain continuity across dozens of parallel initiatives.
Outcomes

What you actually gain.

  • Time reclaimed: hours per week moved from drafting to deciding.
  • Better decisions: more structured thinking, less ad hoc reactivity.
  • Stronger communication: clearer, faster narratives for execs and boards.
  • Reduced burnout: a trusted partner that keeps you out of permanent crisis mode.

If that sounds like the kind of leverage you’ve been looking for, the next step is understanding how we build your C3.

See how the build process works →