Straight talk on cybersecurity brand and growth

Your team page is a security control

Buyers of early-stage security products know the product is immature. They get comfortable with the people instead. A missing team page is a hole in the buying journey.

Phill Keaney-Bolland

19 Aug 2026

How to stand out in agentic security when everyone is agentic

AI for security, security for AI is now the default pitch. Differentiation in the most crowded corner of the market lives one level down, in philosophy, refusal, and story.

Phill Keaney-Bolland

15 Aug 2026

250 conversations before a line of code

Justin Woody planned 100 buyer conversations for Twine and did 250. Nearly all of them pointed at a different problem, and the company pivoted before writing code. Here is how validation actually works.

Phill Keaney-Bolland

11 Aug 2026

Building Action1: Mike Walters on Patch Management, AI Vibe Coding, and the Power of Focus

Mike Walters had to kill his own products to find the one that scaled. He also thinks vibe coding is about to make distribution matter more than code.

AI is Your New Salesperson: Deepak Gupta on Going From SEO to GEO

Buyers increasingly describe a problem to a model rather than search a keyword. Deepak Gupta explains what that does to your website, and gives a three-step fix.

The Logic of Deny by Default: Building the Ultimate Security Guardrail

Rob Allen spent two decades cleaning up after trust but verify. He explains why a 15 percent error rate makes AI unfit for the final allow or deny decision.

We took Aryon from stealth to launch in 2025 with a brand and website built around prevention, not detection. The company has since raised a Series A backed by some of the biggest names in cybersecurity.

We built the brand and website for Geordie from inception in 2025, working directly with founders from Darktrace and Snyk. A year later Geordie won the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox.

We partnered with the ex-Claroty founders from inception in 2024 to brand and launch Twine, the company building AI digital employees for security teams. Twine went on to reach the RSAC 2025 Innovation Sandbox final.

The Cybersecurity Cult Products Awards report

We scored all 77 startups exhibiting at RSA's Early Stage Expo and Next Stage on proposition, brand, and marketing. Here is what the category gets wrong, and who gets it right.