B2B advisory · est. 2024

Operate AI and security like
a serious business function.

JNetwork is the advisory firm mid-market companies hire when AI pilots stall, security audits loom, and the board wants answers in plain English. We design the program, ship the work, and train your team to run it.

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Audit-to-roadmap

90d

Typical SOC 2 prep

30–60%

Manual hours cut on target workflows

Software resale. Vendor-independent.

Operating within

SOC 2 ISO 27001 HIPAA NIST CSF 2.0 EU AI Act PCI DSS 4.0 CIS v8

01 / SERVICESWhat we do

Six engagement tracks. One operating model.

We start every engagement with a fixed-scope diagnostic — so you can see the plan before signing anything ongoing. Roughly 70% of audit clients move into a retainer afterward.

S/01

Virtual CISO & Security Program

Fractional security leadership for companies that need a CISO but can't justify a $350K hire.

S/02

AI Operations & Workflow Automation

Embed AI agents and automation into the workflows that actually run your business — not novelty demos.

S/03

Network & Cloud Infrastructure Advisory

Architect and harden the network and cloud foundations your security and AI programs depend on.

S/04

Compliance & Audit Readiness

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and PCI without the 9-month consulting bills.

S/05

Board & Executive Advisory

Independent technical voice for boards, audit committees, and CEOs facing AI, cyber, or infra decisions.

S/06

Workshops & Team Enablement

Move your leadership team from confusion to confidence on AI, security, and infrastructure decisions in days.

02 / PROBLEM · SOLUTIONWhy teams hire us

The gap between "we should be doing this" and "we are doing this" is where the cost lives.

Where you are

Stalled in the gap.

01
AI pilots that didn't make it to production — and a board asking why
02
Security questionnaires holding up enterprise deals you've already won on the merits
03
An audit on the calendar and a control list nobody's reading
04
Cloud and licensing spend creeping 8–14% per quarter without a steward
05
Two stacks of everything after an acquisition and no integration plan

Where we take you

A working operating model.

→
Production AI workflows tied to measured business outcomes — not slide-deck demos
→
A documented security program your customers' auditors recognize on sight
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Audit-ready evidence pipelines that survive your next renewal
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Right-sized infrastructure with a quarterly cost & risk review
→
A 100-day integration plan that protects deal value and consolidates the stack

03 / WHO WE HELPBest-fit clients

We are not for everyone. We are precise about who we are for.

Four ideal client profiles. If you see yourself in one of them, the engagement economics work for both sides.

ICP/01

Mid-market SaaS preparing for SOC 2 or expansion-stage security

CTO · VP Eng · Head of Security

100–500 employees. Closing enterprise deals blocked by security questionnaires. No CISO yet, audit on the calendar, and the engineering team is owning security part-time.

ICP/02

Operations-heavy firm deploying AI without a strategy

COO · Head of Ops · CFO

Professional services, finance, healthcare ops. Pilots stalling. Tools sprawling. Leadership wants concrete ROI and a governance story before they expand spend.

ICP/03

PE-backed portfolio company in post-acquisition integration

CEO · Operating Partner · CFO

Acquired or rolled-up firms with mismatched stacks, identity sprawl, and a security debt the new owners just inherited. Need a 100-day plan with measurable wins.

See all four ICPs and qualifying triggers

04 / PROCESSHow we engage

Diagnose. Design. Deploy. Transfer.

Diagnose

Stakeholder interviews, document review, tooling access. Working hypothesis by end of week one.

Design

Sequenced plan with owners, effort, and measured outcomes. Reviewed by you before any build.

Deploy

We do the work alongside your team. Weekly progress reviews. Real artifacts, not decks.

Transfer

Knowledge handoff so your team can run it. Quarterly check-ins to keep it alive.

05 / OUTCOMESResults we work for

Outcomes our engagements are designed to produce.

Targets we set with clients in week one. We are deliberate about not publishing fabricated case-study averages.

^~40^%

Reduction in manual operations hours on target AI workflows

Target · 6w sprint

90^d

Typical first-time SOC 2 audit prep timeline

Target · audit program

^~25^%

Cloud & network spend reduction in cost diagnostics

Target · 4w audit

1^st

Attempt audit pass rate we set as the benchmark

Target · compliance

06 / SELECTED WORKEngagements

Selected engagements. Anonymized to respect client confidentiality.

SaaS · 220 employeesvCISO + Compliance

From blocked enterprise deals to first-attempt SOC 2 in 96 days.

Series C SaaS firm with three enterprise deals stalled on security review. We installed a 6-month vCISO retainer, ran the audit prep, and unblocked the pipeline.

96d

SOC 2 first-pass

$2.4M

Pipeline unblocked

28%

Cyber-insurance savings

Financial services · 480 employeesAI Operations

Three production AI agents, ROI tracked from day one.

Mid-market lender with 12 stalled AI pilots. We ran a 6-week sprint scoring all 12, killed nine, and shipped three production agents handling 30% of underwriting intake.

Agents to production

30%

Intake automated

Pilot to prod

07 / FAQCommon questions

Questions buyers ask before reaching out.

What size companies do you typically work with?

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We work primarily with companies between 50 and 2,000 employees, plus boards governing portfolios of any size. We're not the right fit for solo operators or pre-seed startups — the engagement economics don't work for either side.

Are your engagements project-based or retainer?

Both. Most clients start with a fixed-scope audit (4–6 weeks) so we can prove value before signing anything ongoing. About 70% of audit clients move into a 6–12 month retainer afterward.

How is JNetwork different from a managed-security or consulting firm?

We don't sell licenses, we don't have quotas to fill, and we don't bill against headcount. Engagements are scoped against outcomes — passing an audit, deploying agents in production, cutting cloud spend — not hours billed.

Do you work onsite or remote?

Default is remote-first across the US and Canada. Most engagements include 1–2 onsite sessions per quarter (kickoff, board cycle, tabletop). International engagements are quoted with travel as a pass-through.

How do you handle sensitive data and access during engagements?

We work under MSA + DPA. Access is least-privilege, time-bound, and logged. We never extract production data; we use synthetic or sanitized samples for any analysis. Full controls are documented in our trust pack.

What does a typical engagement look like in week one?

Week 1: kickoff, stakeholder interviews (5–10), document review, tooling access provisioning, and a working hypothesis you can react to by Friday. We don't disappear for 30 days and surface a deck.

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