# Semantic Gravity Consulting

> Boutique fractional security advisory for high-growth startups. Led by Brett Earley (25 years of cybersecurity and software development experience). Velocity-based security, pragmatic advisory, fast onboarding, and zero equity drag in 20–40 hours a month.

## Overview

- **Company**: Semantic Gravity Consulting
- **Website**: https://semgrav.com
- **Founder & Principal Advisor**: Brett Earley (25 years in security and software development)
- **LinkedIn**: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-earley-13b6743b8/
- **Contact Email**: brett.earley@proton.me
- **Target Audience**: Seed, Series A, and Series B startups needing senior security leadership, enterprise sales deal unblocking, and hands-on AppSec/cloud engineering without hiring a full-time CISO.

## Operating Principles

1. **Velocity-Based Security**: Guardrails built directly into developer workflows so product releases never slow down.
2. **Pragmatic Advisory**: Practical, risk-prioritized engineering grounded in 25 years of building and defending production software—zero compliance theater.
3. **Fast Onboarding**: Embedded in Slack, repositories, and cloud environments within days, delivering measurable impact in week one.
4. **No Equity Drag**: Straightforward monthly retainer with zero cap-table dilution and no $300k+ full-time executive overhead.

## Two-Tier Engagement Model & Pricing (20–40 Hours / Month)

### Tier 1: Sales Unblocking & Security Questionnaires — $6,000 / month (20 Hours / Month)
- End-to-end completion of enterprise security questionnaires (SIG, CAIQ, custom RFPs).
- Live representation on customer CISO and security architecture review calls.
- Pragmatic SOC 2 Type I/II readiness and customer trust-package preparation.
- High-priority remediation guidance to resolve buyer deal-breakers fast.

### Tier 2: Fractional Embedded Security Lead — $12,000 / month (40 Hours / Month)
- Includes everything in Tier 1 (Sales Unblocking & Security Questionnaires).
- Weekly embedded sprint cadence, architecture reviews, and threat modeling.
- Hands-on penetration testing, code/cloud vulnerability remediation, and CI/CD pipeline setup.
- Cloud architecture hardening across AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes.
- Ongoing engineering team advisory, sensitive PR reviews, and incident response ownership.

## Core Services Offered

1. **Unblocking Sales Deals**: Customer security calls, questionnaires, SOC 2 readiness, and buyer assurance packages.
2. **Pen Testing**: Manual and automated offensive testing across web apps, APIs, auth flows, and cloud environments.
3. **Architecture Reviews**: Threat modeling, multi-tenant isolation, authentication/authorization, and data lifecycle design reviews.
4. **Remediation**: Hands-on code and infrastructure fixes in PRs, IAM, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
5. **CI/CD Pipeline Setup**: High-signal SAST/DAST, secret detection, container scanning, and supply-chain guardrails.
6. **Cloud Architecture**: AWS, GCP, and Kubernetes posture hardening, least-privilege IAM, and network segmentation.
7. **Team Advisory**: Direct Slack mentorship for CTOs and engineers, PR/RFC reviews, and executive briefings.
8. **Incident Response**: Actionable IR playbooks, tabletop exercises, telemetry readiness, and live incident containment.
9. **Specialized R&D**: Explainable Neuro-Symbolic AI systems and deep Forensic Discovery.

## Key Links

- [Home](https://semgrav.com/): Overview of Semantic Gravity Consulting, two-tier pricing ($6k/mo and $12k/mo), and core services.
- [Services & Pricing](https://semgrav.com/services): Detailed breakdown of Tier 1 ($6,000/mo) and Tier 2 ($12,000/mo) retainers and all eight core services.
- [About Brett Earley](https://semgrav.com/about): Background on founder Brett Earley (25 years in security and software development) and operating philosophy.
- [Contact](https://semgrav.com/contact): Direct contact and intro call booking (`brett.earley@proton.me`).
- [Full LLM Documentation](https://semgrav.com/llms-full.txt): Extended machine-readable reference for AI agents.