About

Independent measurement is the missing infrastructure.

We exist to give buyers, boards, and GRC officers the one thing they can't get from model providers: independent, adversarial AI risk intelligence — and an open exchange format that makes it comparable across your stack.

The problem we're solving

Enterprise AI adoption has outpaced governance infrastructure by years. Boards approve deployments they can't evaluate; M&A deals close on AI-heavy targets with no systematic way to quantify what's been acquired — or the liability that comes with it. Model cards and point-in-time audits describe. They don't measure.

Measurement, not narrative

We treat AI risk as a quantifiable, auditable property of the system under examination — a frozen score interface, a versioned engine, and improvements sold on demonstrated lift rather than promises. The party exposed to the risk pays for assessment; the published ranking is never for sale.

Why now

The regulatory wave is already here.

Regulation binds

EU AI Act Article 9 and NIST AI RMF create obligations now. SEC disclosure rules add parallel pressure in the US. Boards need defensible structure, not aspirational policy.

Insurers need profiles

Underwriters are actively looking for credible, furnished profiles to price and bind AI exposure. Better measurement is a precondition for a real market.

The format window

No common format for AI risk exists yet. Adopting one early means your tooling already speaks the format the ecosystem converges on — no rework later.

Principal & founder

Timothy Poschel

Principal · AI Risk Architect · Named Inventor

Two decades of enterprise systems architecture across fintech, regtech, and data infrastructure — including senior and VP-level roles at major data, payments, and identity/risk-data firms, and a named patent on distributed identity resolution (US 10,581,825).

The Shadow Simplex framework grew from a direct observation: the organizations best positioned to exploit AI were being handed almost no rigorous instrument to understand what they were taking on. It was built as a practical instrument for the people who live with the consequences — not abstract theory.

US Patent 10,581,825Shadow Simplex frameworkSREL standard

What independence means here

  • No vendor relationships.
    No financial relationship with any model provider; assessments can't be purchased into a favorable outcome.
  • Reproducible, not narrative.
    Every SSS score is reproducible from its inputs; qualitative judgments are documented and auditable.
  • Open framework.
    Publicly available for scrutiny, replication, and critique. The moat is calibration, not secrecy.
  • We work for the exposed party.
    Buyers, boards, and GRC officers — not vendors. The published rank stays independent of who pays.

Ready to work together?

Start with a 30-minute scoping call. We'll tell you which SSS dimensions matter most for your situation and what an engagement would entail.

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