Stalled pilots. Tool sprawl. Token bills nobody forecast. Security reviews that stop everything because they arrived last. A workforce using AI on personal accounts because the sanctioned path is slower.
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The same work. 100x faster. A tenth of the cost.
Business modernization and agentic transformation for established organizations — engineering, design, brand, product, and strategy moved onto agentic workflows that fit your security commitments and your culture, so they're actually used.
Your board wants an AI-first company. Your people want the grind gone. Both are within reach, and neither requires betting the franchise on a vendor's roadmap. We help large, established organizations onboard the workflows they already run into agentic paradigms: the right tools, in the right places, on the right data, configured to your security commitments. Your team gets its time back. Your leaders get the big picture back.
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The mandate arrived. The grind stayed.
Somewhere between the board deck that said "AI-first" and the Monday standup, the plan met reality: pilots that never reached production, tools bought for everyone and used by a few, security and legal asking fair questions nobody had answers for, and vendors recommending — reliably — themselves. Gartner expects over 40% of agentic AI projects to be canceled by the end of 2027; MIT found 95% of organizations getting zero return on generative AI so far. Meanwhile your best people still spend their days occupying toil — the tickets, the decks, the redlines, the reformatting — that machines now do well. The work is worth doing. The grind isn't.
Behind — even the experts say they've never felt this far behind. Exposed: the leader who bet on the wrong stack, or whose agent touched production. Stretched: asked for 10x with the same people and the same grind.
People shouldn't spend their careers on work machines now do well. Established companies deserve the velocity and cost structure of AI-native ones — without betting their security posture or their brand. Modernization should be something your workforce adopts because it's better, not because it was mandated.
Every one of those is solvable. The pattern that solves them is the same across functions — and it starts with a partner who has done it.
We did this to ourselves first.
We felt the grind. We retired it in our own companies. And we bring the security discipline that lets an established organization do the same without betting anything it can't afford to lose.
YSecurity Where it started
We ran this transformation on ourselves first.
The website you're reading, our blog research, our podcast production, and our client delivery playbooks now run on agentic workflows our own operators built and supervise. The partners who once wrote every page by hand now review what agents draft — and spend the hours they got back with clients.
Meet the team → Cyberbase.ai Zero engineers
A software company with paying customers and no engineers on staff.
Cyberbase is our business-to-business deal acceleration platform — security questionnaires, contract redlines, and compliance reviews. Today it runs with zero engineers. Product, infrastructure, and security are built and operated through agentic engineering, supervised by the founders.
cyberbase.ai → Ceed Never hired one
Built from the first commit without an engineer on payroll.
Ceed runs the money side of a services firm — hours, client budgets, invoices, payouts, and the month close. It has never had an engineer. It operates at roughly a tenth of the cost of a traditional team, at what we measure as 100x the velocity.
ceed.so → Independence
We have no relationships with vendors. On purpose.
YSecurity has no relationship with any vendor — no resale margins, no referral fees, no partner tiers, no certification quotas to hit. A relationship like that would compromise our ability to show up as your true partner, so we don't have one. We recommend only the very best technologies and services for your workflows, your data, and your security commitments — and when a free, open-source tool beats a seven-figure platform for your use case, that's exactly what you'll hear from us.
It's worth saying plainly why this matters now. Accenture named OpenAI a primary partner on December 1, 2025 and launched a 30,000-person Anthropic business group eight days later. PwC became OpenAI's first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise. Bain is an OpenAI Elite Partner with equity in OpenAI's deployment company. Deloitte rolled Claude to 470,000 people. Those are serious capabilities — and every one of them is also a channel, which is why buyers are now advised to demand exit clauses and data portability before signing. We structured YSecurity so you never have to wonder whose interests a recommendation serves.
- No resale margins
- No referral fees
- No partner tiers
- Recommendations in writing
Four steps. No long contract.
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Estimate
Free. About a week.Name a function — engineering, design, brand, product, strategy. We come back with an initial estimate of dollars saved per year, how much faster the work will move, and about how long modernizing that function would take.
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Map
Typically 2–4 weeks.We inventory the workflows, the data sets they need, and the security commitments they must honor; then we choose the tools that fit — with no vendor relationship shaping the choice — and configure them to your culture so people take the paved road because it's the fastest one.
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Embed and build
Weeks, not quarters.Our operators embed with your team, move workflow after workflow onto agents, and build the guardrails, context, and training that make adoption stick. Every decision is made with you, not to you.
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Rightsize, continuously
Ongoing, on demand.Models, tools, and prices change monthly. We keep tuning — swapping what stopped being best, trimming spend, scaling our hours down as your fluency goes up. Continuous rightsizing is the service, not an upsell.
The agreement
Love us, or let us go.
Very simple. Billing in 15-minute increments, an optional monthly cap, and no long-term contract — you can end the engagement any time. No one ever lets us go.
Get your free modernization estimate ↑Start where the toil is heaviest.
Each function has its own page, its own field notes from the people doing the work, and the same promise: the right tools in the right places, on your data, inside your security commitments — and a free estimate to start.
01 Agentic Strategy & Market Analysis Your strategy function, running at the speed of the questions. 02 Agentic Engineering The same roadmap, shipped 100x faster — with a codebase you trust more, not less. 03 Agentic Aesthetics, Design & User Experience Every exploration you never had time for — in your design language, at machine speed. 04 Agentic Copy, Branding & Tone Authorship Every word your company publishes, in one voice — authored at the pace your business needs. 05 Agentic Product Strategy & Market Analytics From roadmap to working prototype to the numbers that prove it — in the same week.
What the people doing this work are saying
Talks, threads, posts, and studies from 2025–2026. The pattern is consistent: the agents work, the pilots stall, and the difference is the system around them. Every card links to its source.
Research
Over 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by the end of 2027, due to escalating costs, unclear business value or inadequate risk controls.
Gartner Press release · June 2025 → ResearchDespite $30–40 billion in enterprise investment into GenAI, 95% of organizations are getting zero return.
MIT NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 Report · as covered by Fortune · August 2025 → X“coding agents basically didn't work before December and basically work since”
Andrej Karpathy, on how much programming changed in two months X · February 2026 → Reddit“At our monthly engineering all hands, they give us a report on our org's usage of Copilot (which has slowly been increasing) and tell us that we need to be using it more. Then a few slides later we see that our sev incidents are also increasing.”
u/overlook211, 561 upvotes, in 'AI coding mandates at work?' Reddit r/ExperiencedDevs · March 2025 → X“Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar than if it was written by a human.”
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code X · September 2026 → ResearchIn a controlled experiment with 1,053 paid professional testers, human review caught just 13.6% of dangerous commands, while auto mode caught 89%.
Anthropic, on approval prompts as a security control — the case for designing guardrails into the system Claude blog · August 2026 → Research21% of companies have mature agent governance models. 25% have moved 40%+ of AI pilots into production.
Deloitte, State of AI in the Enterprise 2026 (3,235 leaders, 24 countries) Report · January 2026 → ResearchThe share of employees feeling positive about generative AI rises from 15% to 55% when leaders demonstrate strong support.
BCG, AI at Work 2025 (10,600+ respondents, 11 countries) Survey · June 2025 → ▶ YouTubeAndrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
The Y Combinator talk that framed partial autonomy — the 'autonomy slider' you loosen as trust is earned YouTube · June 2025 →Waiting has a price.
Pilots that never ship while competitors compound. Teams spending another year on toil a colleague's agent retired last quarter. An incident — data out the door, a production database gone — because security arrived after adoption instead of with it. A stack chosen by a partner's alliance rather than your needs, and the lock-in that follows.
The same work. A different company.
The same work, done 100x faster at a tenth of the cost. A team that's happier because the grind is gone — and a leadership team that spends its time on the value proposition and the strategy. Security commitments intact, auditors and enterprise customers satisfied, and tools your workforce chose to adopt because they're better.
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- The organization that's behind.
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- The organization that runs on agents, safely.
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- Leaders buried in operational grit and execution detail.
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- Leaders on the value proposition and the strategy.
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- A risky bet on a vendor's roadmap.
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- A trusted partner you can let go any time — and won't want to.
Business modernization and agentic transformation, answered
What is business modernization and agentic transformation?
Business modernization and agentic transformation is the work of moving an organization's existing business workflows — in engineering, design, brand and copy, product, and strategy — onto agentic paradigms, where AI agents carry the operational load and people direct, verify, and decide. It covers choosing the right tools for the right places, connecting them to the right data sets, configuring them to the organization's security commitments and culture so they're actually used, and continuously rightsizing the system as models and tools change. You still do the same work; you do it far faster at a fraction of the cost.
Is '100x faster at a tenth of the cost' a real number?
It's our own. Cyberbase, our deal-acceleration platform, runs today with zero engineers on staff. Ceed, which runs the money side of a services firm, was built without ever hiring an engineer and operates at roughly a tenth of a traditional team's cost at what we measure as 100x the velocity. Your numbers depend on the function, the workflows inside it, and how much toil they carry — which is exactly what the free modernization estimate quantifies before anyone commits to anything.
Why does a security firm do this?
Because adoption fails on security more often than it fails on models. The tools work; what stops them reaching production in an established organization is data boundaries, access, approvals, cost control, and audit — the things we've spent years engineering in SOC 2, ISO 42001, HIPAA, and FedRAMP programs. Agentic workflows configured to your commitments from day one are the ones your security team approves and your workforce keeps.
Do you have relationships with AI vendors?
No. None. No resale margins, no referral fees, no partner tiers, no certification quotas. A relationship like that would compromise our ability to show up as your true partner, so we recommend only the very best technologies and services for your workflows, your data, and your security commitments — in writing, with the reasoning attached.
What does the engagement look like, and how do we end it?
Our operators embed with your team and bill in 15-minute increments with an optional monthly cap. There is no long-term contract. You can end the engagement any time: love us, or let us go. Very simple. No one ever lets us go.
Which business functions can you modernize?
We start with five where the toil is heaviest and the tooling is mature: engineering, design and user experience, copy and brand, product and analytics, and strategy and market analysis. If a function carries repeatable knowledge work, it's a candidate — tell us about it in the estimate form.
Your estimate is free. So is letting us go.
Retire the grind. Keep the mission.
Send your company email, name the function, and we'll come back with your modernization estimate — dollars saved, speed gained, and time to modernize.
Love us, or let us go. Very simple. Billing in 15-minute increments, an optional monthly cap, and no long-term contract — you can end the engagement any time. No one ever lets us go.