A questionnaire stalled the deal
Procurement sent a security review covering access control and AI use. It's been parked for weeks while someone on your team guesses at the answers.
AI Agents Doing Security Work
Ship the Security Control Your Next Deal Is Waiting On
You have 20–120 employees, no CISO, and a security questionnaire holding up a deal. The Security Sprint puts one guarded system into production in 2–5 weeks: least-privilege access, an audit log you can export, and human approval on every write. You own it at handover.
Your guardrails, working
Live- Workflow token scoped down to one repoGitHubLeast privilege
- Dormant admin account flagged for reviewOktaAccess review
- Customer data headed for an AI tool, caughtSlackAI use
- IAM wildcard replaced with a named roleAWSLeast privilege
- Vendor questionnaire answered from your evidenceNotionQuestionnaire
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- guarded and running, not a document
- 1systemguarded and running, not a document
- from kickoff to production
- 2–5weeksfrom kickoff to production
- one price, agreed upfront
- $20Kfixedone price, agreed upfront
- metrics agreed in writing
- 50%backmetrics agreed in writing
Plugs into the tools you already run
- GitHub
- Slack
- AWS
- Okta
- Google Workspace
01The Problem
You don't have a security team. You still have security problems.
AI tools spread faster than rules
People are pasting customer data into ChatGPT and Copilot today. Nobody wrote down what's allowed, and nobody can see what's already gone out.
Someone asked who owns this
A board member, an investor, or your largest customer asked what your AI agents can reach. The honest answer is that nobody has checked, and the SOC 2 effort is slipping.
You've priced a security hire at $150K and six months. You've been quoted a program that ends in a policy document. There's a middle path: one control, running in production, that you own.
02What You Get
What this actually does for your business
At handover you hold the running system, the access map behind it, and an exportable audit log, in your accounts rather than ours.
- One security-relevant system running in production, not a policy PDF
- Least-privilege access on every integration your agents touch
- An audit log you can hand to a customer, an auditor, or your board
- Human approval on writes, so an agent never acts alone where it matters
- Answers to the AI and access questions that keep stalling your deals
03Results
Shipped in weeks, and still running
“Our lead-qualification agent books 40% more demos than our old chatbot, and the leads come in pre-qualified.”
“We went from 200 support tickets a week to 80. The agent handles password resets, billing questions, and basic troubleshooting automatically.”
04How It Works
AI agents that do the security work
Not a policy generator. Agents that run the control: they scope access down, review what changed, catch data heading somewhere it shouldn't, and answer the questions your buyers keep sending.
Scoped to your stack
Your repos, your identity provider, your cloud account. Read-only until you say otherwise.
Least privilege by default
Every permission the system holds is named, justified, and revocable in one place.
Everything is logged
Each action leaves an entry you can show a customer, an auditor, or your board.
Live in weeks
In production in 2–5 weeks, not a six-month program.
Guardrails built in, not bolted on
Every system ships with scoped access, audit logging, and human-in-the-loop controls on writes, engineered by a founder who ran security for finance and payments companies. You're handing an agent the keys to your stack. We treat that like it matters.
05The Sprint
The Security Sprint
Pick the one control that's blocking you. Our founder scopes it with you on the kickoff call, then one delivery operator builds it, deploys it, and hands it over in 2–5 weeks, yours to run. Most teams start with whatever sits between them and a stalled deal, then run the same play on the next workflow.
Ranked a top AI company in Japan by Clutch, 2026.
- Week 101
Discovery
- Name the one control worth building first
- Map who and what can already reach your data
- Agree the success test in writing, before any build
- Weeks 2–302
Design + Build
- Scope access down to least privilege, permission by permission
- Wire audit logging you can export and hand to a buyer
- Put a human approval step on every write
- Build against your real stack, not a demo tenant
- Week 403
Deploy + Optimize
- Go live in production
- Run it against the success test we agreed
- Tune the alerts until they're worth reading
- Handover04
Yours to Run
- Full documentation and Loom walkthroughs
- A runbook for the day it misfires
- Optional team training
Success metrics we define upfront
- One guarded system live in production
- Named, least-privilege access on every integration it touches
- Questionnaire answers backed by a control, not a promise
→Check your exposure
Where are you exposed?
Three minutes. You'll get a readiness score and the top three gaps to close first.
06Fit Check
Is this right for you?
We're a strong fit if you…
- Run a SaaS or productized-service business with 20–120 employees
- Have no CISO, so security lands on the CEO, CTO, or head of engineering
- Have a security questionnaire stalling a deal, or a SOC 2 effort stuck mid-audit
- Watch AI tools spread through the team with no rule on what data goes where
- Had a board member or investor ask what your AI agents are allowed to do
- Want one control running in production, not a program that ends in a document
- Want a partner whose team overlaps your working hours, US or Japan
We're probably not your fit if…
- You need enterprise compliance (SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA) certified on day one
- You already have a CISO and a security team running this work
- You want a pen test, an MSSP, or a 24/7 SOC. We don't sell those.
- You're shopping for a $500 chatbot plugin
- You want a vendor to blame, not a partner to work with
→Still on the fence?
Not sure yet?
Five scorecards, 3 minutes each. Pick your angle, from AI readiness to where your access is exposed.
07Why SimplyCubed
Why not hire or buy this another way?
Hire a security engineer
Market rate before benefits, plus 3–6 months to find one and ramp them. The questionnaire is due before they start.
Fractional CISO retainer
Useful for advice and program direction. It's a recurring bill, it takes weeks to spin up, and it produces documents. Nobody on that retainer is shipping the control.
MSSP or pen-test firm
Generic scope and a report of findings. Fixing what they found is still your job, and nothing runs when they leave.
The Security Sprint ends with a running control you own. Fixed price, 2–5 weeks.
08Investment
What it costs, and what it replaces
- Hiring a security engineer + 3–6 months to hire and ramp~$150K/yr
- Fractional CISO retainer recurring, and it ends in documents$5K–$15K/mo
The Security Sprint$20,000
Fixed, agreed before we start. One guarded system live in 2–5 weeks, and it's yours at handover.
Optional ongoing support starts at $1,000/mo. Most teams add it after the first system is live, to keep the control tuned and bring the next workflow under the same guardrails.
→Not ready for a $20,000 build?
Get the plan before you commit to the build.
The Security Readiness Audit maps where your data, your access, and your AI tools are exposed into a readiness heatmap, a prioritized fix list, and a build-ready blueprint you own. $1,500, credited in full toward your Sprint within 30 days. Here's a real one.
09The Guarantee
We define success upfront. Then we hit it.
We agree on your success metrics in writing before we start, something like “least-privilege access on every integration the agent touches” or “an exportable audit log on every write.” If we don't hit them within 30 days of deployment, we keep working at no extra cost until we do. Or we refund 50%.
- Metrics agreed in writing
- 30-day deployment window
- Keep-working or 50% refund
10FAQ
Before you book
Is this a chatbot or a policy generator?
Neither. Chatbots answer questions and policy tools produce documents. We ship a running system: scoped access, audit logging, and a human approval step on writes. At handover it's live in your accounts, doing the work.
Is my data safe?
That's the product. Every system ships with least-privilege access, audit logging, and human-in-the-loop controls on writes. Our founder ran security for finance and payments companies, so scoped access is the default here, not an upsell.
How long until it's live?
Two to five weeks, depending on scope. Week 1 is discovery and scoping, weeks 2–3 are build and integration, week 4 is deployment and tuning.
Will this get us SOC 2?
No. We're not an audit firm and we don't run compliance programs. We ship the controls an audit keeps asking about, so the evidence exists and works when your auditor or your customer asks to see it.
What if it doesn't deliver?
We define your success metrics in writing before we start. If we don't hit them within 30 days of deployment, we keep working at no extra cost until we do. Or we refund 50%.
Do you work with my tools?
If you run GitHub, Slack, AWS, Okta, Google Workspace, or most tools with an API, we build directly against them. No rip-and-replace.
What happens after handover?
You get full documentation and Loom walkthroughs, and the system runs in your accounts, not ours. Many teams add ongoing support (from $1,000/mo) to keep it tuned and bring the next workflow under the same guardrails.
Charles Green · Founder, SimplyCubed
I spent years as a CISO and engineer shipping production systems in finance, payments, and AI, where downtime and bad automation cost real money. SimplyCubed is how I bring that discipline to growing companies: a lean team of senior operators, vetted specialists, and AI agents that ship in weeks what an agency staffs for months.
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Get your score, or get on a call
The 3-minute readiness check scores where you're exposed and names the top three gaps. The 30-minute call picks the one control worth building first, against your actual stack. Either way, you leave with something specific. No pitch deck.