B2B Intelligence Security| AI Optimization| Social Psychology & Marketing
Spy — B2B intelligence security, AI optimization, and applied social psychology.
A company leaks through
its stack, its signals,
and its people.
We find all three,
and tell you plainly.
What we do
INTELLIGENCE SECURITY
What your company
gives away.
AI OPTIMIZATION
Models you own,
on hardware you own.
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY & MARKETING
Why people
say yes.
We look at what leaves your company without anyone deciding it should — through the stack, through the spectrum around your building, and through your own people. Then we tell you what we found and what is worth doing about it.
Where the fix needs hands we don’t have, we tell you whose.
Open models running in your building, not a vendor’s cloud — and the system around them: what an agent retains and for how long, how deeply it is allowed to analyse, how the whole thing is secured, and how much of it can be made simpler.
The weights are yours. The software is open. Nobody oversees it afterwards, including us.
Message testing grounded in the behavioural literature rather than folklore, audience work that does not depend on buying anybody’s data, and an honest account of what your funnel actually does to the people in it.
There is a line in persuasion. We will tell you where yours is.
How we work
Six steps, and hardware
only where the question needs it.
Scope
No hardware, no instruments. We start at the data and the models: what you want optimized, what you need to know, and only then what you are exposed to. Most engagements are shaped here, and some end here.
Gather
Your data and your models, the open sources, the literature, the market. Instruments and sweeps come in here too, but only where the question actually needs them.
Analyse and model
Models built, tested and compared against a real baseline. Sources cross-checked. Findings ranked by what they are worth to you rather than by how alarming they sound.
Written report
Risk-ranked, with the residual uncertainty stated. What we could not establish is written down as plainly as what we did.
Build, or hand off
The findings turn into systems where we are the right people to build them, and into an introduction where we are not. A report nobody can act on is a bill.
Handover, and only then a return
You keep the models, the method and any kit, and the people who will use them know how. Recurrence only if the question or the threat recurs.
The blueprint
We show you the drawing,
not just the device.
Working with us
By introduction.
Spy is a private practice, not an agency. There is no form on this page and no open enquiry line — we work with a small number of clients, and new ones arrive through people we already know.
Reach us through a mutual contact, or on LinkedIn.
Questions are welcome by email.
We are small on purpose. A handful of engagements at a time, and no plan to grow into something else. That is what keeps the work specific rather than packaged.
Most of it starts as a consultation. That is where we share case studies and walk through implementation. Where an engagement needs hands we do not have, we say so and point you at the people who do — we would rather send you somewhere right than sell you something wrong.
Rapport
No client list.
That is the point.
We are not able to list our clients or case studies due to our Privacy Policy to clients. Please apply to consult with us and we can provide this data then, alongside an NDA.
Who we serve
The people in the trenches.
Adversarial audit of your own collection surface. We come at it the way someone who wanted it would.
Scoped plainly, reported plainly. Threat model, assessment, remediation, handover.
Instruments, study design, modeling, joint publication. Your name on the paper, and ours if you want it.
Founders and executives too — sweeps, removals and hardening, at one person’s scale.
Our mission
Privacy & data knowledge
should be for the people.
That’s our mission.
Spy LLC
Sōlus nōn es. — You are not alone.