Cyber Readiness Advisory Retainer
Continuous CYBAIR posture, evidence, and remediation counsel. Workload coverage is the unit line; the retainer is the judgment around it.
Why this engagement exists
Posture decays the moment an assessment ends. Workloads change, frameworks shift, and evidence goes stale — so the defensible picture an organization built becomes a liability the next time an auditor, insurer, or customer asks for proof.
What it looks like in your organization
- The last assessment is a snapshot nobody trusts six months later.
- New workloads ship without posture scoring.
- Framework shifts trigger scramble responses instead of rehearsed updates.
- Remediation stalls because nobody tracks it to closure.
What we do and how it works
We keep the CYBAIR picture current: posture re-scoring as workloads change, evidence kept audit-ready, remediation tracked to closure, and counsel when frameworks shift. Each covered workload is a CYBAIR unit; the retainer fee is the standing counsel and cadence around those units.
The engagement includes
- Standing CYBAIR coverage of the nominated workload estate
- Posture re-scoring as workloads change
- Evidence and attestation kept audit-ready
- Remediation tracking to closure
- Framework-shift counsel and quarterly executive readouts
What you take away
Every deliverable is named, formatted, and tied to the outcome it enables. Nothing ships as a deck with no use.
Continuous posture coverage
Ongoing scorecardCYBAIR posture kept current across the covered workloads, re-scored as they change.
The posture picture is always defensible, never a stale snapshot.
Audit-ready evidence, continuously
Evidence trailEvidence and attestation maintained so audits and insurer reviews start prepared.
No evidence scramble — the trail is current by default.
Remediation tracking to closure
Tracking cadenceFindings tracked with owners and closure criteria until they are done.
Remediation actually completes instead of aging in a backlog.
Quarterly executive readouts
ReadoutThe posture story for leadership each quarter: what changed, what closed, what remains.
Leadership oversight runs on a cadence with current evidence.
How this engagement runs
Baseline the estate
Month 1The covered workloads are nominated and baselined on CYBAIR. The unit count sets the coverage line for the year.
A current posture picture and a priced coverage scope.
Run the cadence
Months 1–12Posture re-scoring, evidence maintenance, and remediation tracking run on cadence as workloads change.
The picture stays defensible as the estate moves.
Absorb framework shifts
As regimes changeWhen frameworks shift, the response is rehearsed: crosswalk updates, evidence adjustments, and counsel.
Regime changes are absorbed, not scrambled.
Report to leadership
QuarterlyExecutive readouts each quarter close the loop between posture, remediation, and oversight.
Board and leadership oversight runs on current evidence.
How the fee is built
The engagement fee moves on three multipliers — sensitivity, involvement, and organization type — and the platform units the work consumes are their own lines. Nothing is hidden inside a flat number.
Sensitivity
×0.90 – ×1.30 on the engagement feeSensitivity sets the handling envelope around the whole engagement: how data moves, where evidence lives, who can touch it, and what containment we must maintain. Higher sensitivity means cleared handling, segregated evidence, and slower, more deliberate operations — real cost that a flat fee would hide.
Open information. Standard handling, no containment overhead.
Proprietary business information. NDA-grade handling and controlled evidence storage.
Compliance-bound data. Framework controls and audit-ready evidence handling shape the work.
Defense-grade pathways. Cleared handling, boundary containment, and evidence segregation inside your perimeter.
Involvement
×0.85 – ×1.35 on the engagement feeInvolvement is how much Multipolar operator time is on the hook. Counsel at checkpoints is a different commitment than embedded delivery inside your team, your systems, and your cadence. The multiplier tracks senior hours actually committed — not a markup.
We advise and interpret; your team executes. Senior counsel at defined checkpoints.
We run the engagement end to end, with your stakeholders at the decision points.
Embedded delivery. Our operators work inside your team until the outcome is actually in place.
Organization type
×0.85 – ×1.25 on the engagement feeThe same technical work lands differently depending on who is buying it. Federal and defense engagements carry procurement, compliance, security review, and stakeholder alignment that a mid-market engagement does not. The multiplier prices the coordination and accountability surface, not the analysis.
Fewer stakeholders, faster decisions, lighter coordination overhead.
The baseline: standard commercial engagement surface.
Public-sector procurement and multi-agency stakeholder surface.
Investment-platform cadence: deal-driven timelines and IC audiences.
Joint-delivery and enablement motions with partner delivery teams.
Assurance functions: evidence standards and underwriting audiences.
Federal procurement, compliance crosswalks, and multi-office alignment.
Mission-critical review, security handling, and acquisition-process alignment.
Scope & scale of platform units
The largest component of most totalsEvery engagement consumes platform units — CYBAIR workloads, AIR organization bands, GENOMIA twins, WINS scenarios, SiliconAIR systems. Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing: an 8-workload assessment and a 50-workload assessment are different engagements and are priced as such. You set the scope in the configurator; the total moves with it, and nothing is quietly under-scoped to fit a number.
Simulation compute
Estimated until configured · billed on actualsWINS simulations carry real compute costs that scale with scenario count, branching depth, and campaign length. A focused single-scenario game and a sustained multi-agent campaign are orders of magnitude apart. Facilitation and after-action are in the fee; compute is estimated once the game is configured, then billed on actuals — you pay for what actually runs, never a padded average.
Platform units in this engagement
Units track your estate, not our appetite for flat pricing. You set the scope; the total moves with it. Each unit below is consumed by this engagement and billed as its own line.
Each model, RAG pipeline, or agentic workflow you nominate for posture, compliance, evidence, and attestation.
The number of AI workloads you put in scope. Minimum one. You choose the estate to assess — the count is yours to set, and we do not flatten ten workloads and fifty into the same fee.
What the engagement fee covers
- Scoping, workshops, and interpretation
- Every deliverable listed on this page
- Cross-framework mapping where the package includes compliance
- Executive translation — board, program-office, or IC language
- Handoff and a defensible next-step recommendation
What it does not cover
- Platform units consumed by the work (shown as their own lines)
- WINS simulation compute (estimated, then billed on actuals)
Frequently asked questions
No. It is advisory retainer on top of CYBAIR posture: counsel, cadence, and tracking. Your team operates; we keep the picture defensible.
Ready to brief us on the Cyber Readiness Advisory Retainer?
We choose who we work with and confirm scope, capacity, and final pricing in the briefing.