Your security made smarter.
Accountable technology leadership, backed by the architecture and engineering talent to deliver.
Our Services
We create lasting change in what your business can do.
Trusted Advisor Fractional CIO, CISO, or CTO — executive depth without a full-time hire, for a quarter or for years.
Sits in your leadership meetings, owns the technology or security agenda, and is accountable for the roadmap — without the comp package of a full-time executive.
- Typical shape: 5-10 hours a month, monthly leadership cadence, 3-month minimum
- A prioritized roadmap and board-ready reporting
- Vendor selection, audit response, and escalation coverage
Architecture & Design Target architecture, trade-offs, and a migration path — settled before anyone writes code.
We document where you are, where you are going, and what it costs to get there. Trade-offs written down are trade-offs that survive turnover.
- Current-state assessment and target architecture
- A written trade-off log and a sequenced migration plan
- Reference diagrams your team can build from. Typically 2–8 weeks.
Process Development & Automation Fewer handoffs, fewer errors, shorter cycles. We redesign the manual work, then automate it.
We map the work as it actually happens — not as the runbook claims — remove the handoffs, then automate what is left.
- A documented process map of the real workflow
- An automation backlog ranked by hours saved
- Working automation delivered incrementally, with runbooks your team owns
Implementation & Coding Working software in production, built by the same people who designed it.
No handoff to a team that was not in the design conversation. We work in your stack, in your repos, against your definition of done.
- Production software, with tests and CI
- Documentation and a handover your team can maintain
- Available as staff augmentation or full delivery ownership
Executive Consulting Where to invest, what to retire, and in what order — decisions your board can follow.
For leadership teams facing a decision bigger than any one project: a consolidation, a platform bet, a rebuild, or an audit finding with teeth.
- An options analysis with costs and risks made explicit
- A recommendation you can defend to a board
- Delivered as a written brief plus a working sessions with your leadership team
Areas of Expertise
Cybersecurity
Artificial Intelligence
Cloud
Data Warehousing & Analytics
Information Technology
How We Work
Three ways to engage, depending on how much of the seat you need us to hold.
Advisory retainer
Flexible hourly billing · Monthly cadences
Senior judgment on call for teams that need a sounding board, not a full-time hire.
Fractional executive
1–2 days a week · 3-month minimum
We hold the seat: roadmap, team, budget, vendor relationships, and board reporting.
Project
Fixed scope · FFP or T&M
Architecture, automation, or delivery work with a defined finish line and fixed price.
Every engagement starts with a 30-minute call, followed by a written scope and a price before any work begins.
Who You're Working With
Jason Rauen, Principal. I built the cyber defense platform behind a managed detection and response service. That business spun out as a mid-market MDR security company and now runs $50M ARR. I led the 24-person engineering organization behind it.
I built the team that scaled that service past 400 clients without adding headcount. Budget and attention are finite. Both go to the work with the biggest measurable payoff — including deciding what to stop.
Technology decisions are business decisions and should be argued that way. My MS in cybersecurity covers what the system needs. My MBA from Chicago Booth covers the case that gets it funded.
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Ready to transform your technology landscape? Let's discuss how Cynaptic can help drive your success.