Your SOC team triages 4,000 alerts a day. 12 of them matter.
Your analysts aren't underperforming. They're buried under false positives, compliance reporting, and workflows that should have been automated 3 years ago. I find where agents fit in security operations, and deploy them in days.
30 minutes. No pitch. No demo of a product I don't sell. Just the math on your security operations.
Your security team's real workload.
4,000 alerts per day. Your team triages every one.
85% are false positives or known-benign. Your highest-paid analysts spend their mornings on pattern matching that follows the same decision tree every shift. Close. Close. Escalate. Close. Close. Close. The cost of missing the real one is catastrophic. So nobody questions the process.
340 hours per quarter on reports. Same structure every cycle.
Your compliance team pulls from the same GRC data, maps to the same control frameworks, and generates the same report templates. The only variable is which person copies which numbers into which document. Nobody has questioned it because "that's how compliance works." It doesn't have to.
24/7 coverage with a team built for business hours.
Your senior analysts are pulling nights and weekends because the SOC doesn't stop at 5pm. You've posted the Tier 1 role twice. 6-month average time-to-fill. $120K loaded cost. The backlog grows while you wait. Your team isn't understaffed. Your processes are overstaffed with humans doing machine work.
SIEM. SOAR. GRC. EDR. 6 dashboards. Zero unified picture.
Your security stack has more tools than your team has hours to check them. Data lives in 6 systems that were never designed to talk to each other. The "single pane of glass" your last vendor promised? Another tab in the browser. Log correlation happens in a spreadsheet. Incident documentation happens in someone's head.
You don't have a staffing problem. You have a 340-hour compliance problem.
Every pain point above has the same root cause: tasks that follow a deterministic path running on $120K analyst time. When I map a SOC team's daily operations, the pattern is always the same. 60-70% of Tier 1 work follows a decision tree. These aren't judgment calls. They're decision trees running on human labor at $65/hour.
Hiring doesn't fix this. It adds more people to the same broken triage queue. The fix is separating the work that requires human judgment from the work that follows a repeatable pattern, then letting agents handle the pattern.
One CISO called this "the most expensive mistake nobody measures." Here's what happened when he measured it.
"We've been burned."
That was the first thing the CISO said. First meeting. First sentence.
Mid-Market Construction Back-Office
Information Security | $14,000/mo retainerBefore Cloon
Three AI vendors had promised autonomous SOC operations and delivered a chatbot with a security skin. 340 hours per quarter generating compliance reports manually. Every audit cycle meant overtime and missed deadlines.
After Cloon
Agents pull from existing GRC data, map to control frameworks, and generate audit-ready output. 40 minutes per report. 300+ hours per quarter returned to the team. Now expanding to 3 new departments.
"Three vendors promised us the world and delivered a chatbot. Andrew showed up, spent two weeks actually understanding our compliance workflows, and then showed us our own data. 340 hours per quarter on reports that agents generate in 40 minutes. We went from 'never again' to expanding into three new departments."
Process before prompts. Especially in security.
AI deployed on top of broken security workflows makes a bigger mess. I fix your operations first, then add agents where the economics are undeniable.
Operational Discovery
I embed in your security operations. SOC workflows, compliance cadences, incident response handoffs, triage runbooks, reporting processes. I map every step where a human follows a repeatable pattern. This takes time because understanding your specific environment is the work that makes deployments stick.
Waste Identification
I find your 340-hour number. Every security team has one. Alert triage decision trees. Compliance data assembly. Log enrichment workflows. Incident documentation templates. I measure the hours and calculate the cost. Manual steps that cost real money, happening every shift, invisible because "that's how we've always done it."
Agent Architecture
Agent systems designed around your existing stack. Your SIEM stays. Your GRC platform stays. Your ticketing system stays. Agents connect through APIs: no new infrastructure, no IT projects, no vendor lock-in. Agents operate within your existing access controls and audit trails.
Deployment
Working agents processing real work in 7 days. Alert triage. Compliance report generation. Log enrichment. Incident documentation. Not a proof of concept. Not a 6-month pilot. Live systems your team uses on day 1. Cost model: agents run on API compute at pennies per call.
Agents handle the pattern. Your team handles the threat.
The goal is never fewer security people. It's better-deployed security people.
What agents handle
- Tier 1 alert triage: decision-tree pattern matching at machine speed, 24/7
- Compliance report assembly: 40 minutes per report instead of 340 hours per quarter
- Log correlation and enrichment across SIEM, EDR, and threat intel feeds
- Incident documentation: structured, timestamped, audit-ready in real time
- Routine vulnerability reporting: aggregated, deduplicated, prioritized by actual risk
What your team handles
- Threat hunting: creative, adversarial thinking no decision tree can replicate
- Incident response: high-stakes, real-time judgment calls and containment decisions
- Security architecture: designing defense-in-depth strategies and evaluating tools
- Vendor and risk assessment: third-party evaluations and board-level reporting
- Policy and strategy: the $120K work your $120K analysts were hired to do
Security leaders ask these first.
We've been burned by AI vendors before. Why is this different?
Because I don't sell software. I don't have a platform. I don't have a sales team that disappears after the contract signs. I'm a fractional AI-Ops executive. I embed in your operations for weeks before any agent gets built. The Mid-Market Construction Back-Office CISO said "we've been burned" in our first meeting, after 3 failed AI vendors. He signed a $14K/month retainer because the approach was different: understand the operations first, build agents second, prove it with his own data.
Agents having access to our security data, how does that work?
Agents operate within your existing access controls. They connect through APIs to the tools you already use, your SIEM, your GRC platform, your ticketing system. They don't require new infrastructure, new network access, or elevated privileges beyond what your existing integrations use. All agent actions are logged, auditable, and traceable. Your security architecture doesn't change. Agents work inside it.
What about compliance implications? SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST: do agents create new risk?
Agent-generated outputs go through the same review and approval process your team already uses. Agents assemble the data and generate the documentation. Your compliance team reviews, validates, and submits. The compliance frameworks don't change. Your control environment stays intact. Your audit trail actually improves because agent actions are logged with more granularity than manual processes.
We don't have budget for another $14K/month. What does engagement actually cost?
Retainers range from $8K to $18K per month depending on scope and complexity. The Operational Scan is free, 30 minutes, and the only outcome is clarity. But the real number to look at is the cost you're already paying. If your team spends 340 hours per quarter on compliance reporting at $65/hour, that's $88,000 per year in labor on one workflow. The retainer math tends to be obvious once you see your own numbers.
How long before we see results?
Agents deploy 7 days after architecture approval. Not a roadmap. Not a phased rollout. Working agents processing real work in your environment within the first month of engagement. Discovery takes 3-4 weeks because understanding your specific security environment is the work that makes deployments stick. The vendors who skip this step are the ones who deliver chatbots.
What happens if an agent makes a wrong call on alert triage?
Same thing that happens when a Tier 1 analyst makes a wrong call. The escalation path catches it. Agents operate within the same triage framework your team uses. Escalation thresholds are configurable and start conservative. Your senior analysts still review escalated alerts. The difference is they're reviewing 12 real alerts per day instead of digging through 4,000 to find those 12. False negative rates are measured and reported weekly.
Your security ops math. 30 minutes.
You walk me through your most painful security workflow. I ask the questions your vendors never asked. We identify where agents fit in your stack, and where they absolutely don't. No follow-up sequence. No SDR calling next week. No demo of a product I don't sell. One conversation between two people who understand that security operations shouldn't run on analyst burnout and heroics.
Free. 30 minutes. The only outcome is clarity.
The last CISO who booked this call started with "we've been burned." He's now expanding agents into his third department.