Compliance Readiness
Gap assessments and audit prep for SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HIPAA — control design, evidence, and audit-liaison support so your examination goes smoothly. The SOC 2 examination itself is issued by a licensed CPA firm.
SOC 2 Readiness · Security Compliance · AI Governance & Testing
Turning risk into forward momentum.
Kinesis Risk Advisors helps technology companies build security programs that actually hold — assessing true capability across people, process, technology, and data, then charting the path forward. From 10-person startups to enterprise.
Founder's career track record
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Technology companies served
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SOC 2 engagements supported
CISSP · ISO 42001
Security & AI-management credentials
What we do
Advisory built around how risk actually moves.
Being compliant tells you a box was checked. We go further — assessing whether your security program will actually hold, then building the target operating model to move it forward.
Core engagement
Target Operating Model Development
We assess your true capability — not just your controls — then design the operating model to close the distance between where you are and where you need to be: current-state assessment, gap analysis, maturity assessment, and a phased roadmap.
Roadmaps that match reality. Risk and technology don't move in three-year plans, so ours run in 6, 12, and 18 month horizons.
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Assessed through four lenses
- PeopleSkills, ownership, and accountability
- ProcessHow the work actually gets done
- TechnologyThe tools and controls in place
- DataWhat you hold, and how it flows
People, process, and technology are a three-legged stool — with data running through all three. Let one leg run short and the whole thing eventually tips over.
AI Governance Readiness
Assess and stand up an AI management system aligned to ISO 42001 and the NIST AI RMF — governance, policy, and risk controls. Grounded in hands-on work with frontier models.
Security Program & CISO Advisory
Build and mature a right-sized security program — policies, controls, and governance — with a senior advisor in your corner. A trusted sounding board to founders and CISOs on strategy and priorities, rather than a full-time seat. Includes the technology-facing side of privacy — privacy impact assessments, data discovery and classification, and tooling rationalization (not legal interpretation).
Our approach
A disciplined method, in motion.
Kinesis — the science of movement — is how we think about risk. We meet it where it is, then build the systems that let your team move faster because of it.
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Current-State Assessment
We assess your program as it stands today — across people, process, technology, and data — for an honest read on capability, not just controls.
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Gap & Maturity Analysis
We measure the distance to where you need to be and benchmark your maturity against the standards and peers that matter.
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Target Operating Model
We design the operating model — roles, processes, controls, and tooling — that closes the gap and keeps the stool balanced.
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Roadmap & Execution
We sequence the work into 6, 12, and 18 month horizons — practical, prioritized, and built to drive.
About Kinesis
Advisors who stay in the room.
Kinesis Risk Advisors, LLC was founded on a simple conviction: security and compliance should create momentum, not friction. Too many teams treat an audit as a fire drill. We treat it as a program you build once and improve every cycle.
Kinesis is built on real reps accumulated across our founder's career — 100+ SOC 2 engagements and 50+ technology companies, from 10-person startups to Big Tech. You work directly with that senior, hands-on expertise, and leave with capability that outlasts the engagement.
- Senior-led — you work directly with the expertise
- CISSP & ISO 42001 certified leadership
- Hands-on work training & evaluating frontier AI models
- Practical guidance mapped to global frameworks
- Knowledge transfer built into every engagement
Founder's track record
- 50+ technology companies served
- 100+ SOC 2 engagements supported
- CISSP certified security professional
- CIPP/US certified privacy professional
- ISO 42001 certified lead implementer
Career experience — from 10-person startups to Big Tech.
Frontier AI
Grounded at the frontier of AI
Beyond advising, we work hands-on with frontier AI models — helping train and evaluate how they reason through complex cyber risk and compliance problems. It keeps our guidance honest about where the technology is actually headed, and sharpens how we help you govern AI safely.
Thomas Jackson
Managing Principal
- CISSP
- CIPP/US
- ISO 42001
The founder
Senior expertise, in the room with you.
Thomas founded Kinesis to do this work the way he believes it should be done — senior-led, hands-on, and built around how a business actually runs rather than a checklist. Across his career he has guided more than 50 technology companies through 100+ SOC 2 engagements, from 10-person startups to Big Tech.
A CISSP, CIPP/US, and ISO 42001 Lead Implementer, he pairs deep security and privacy fluency with hands-on work at the frontier of AI — which keeps his guidance grounded in where the technology is actually headed. Engage Kinesis and you work directly with him, start to finish.
Work with ThomasCompliance tells you a box was checked. I care whether your program will actually hold — and I stay in the room until it does.
Thomas Jackson
Who we serve
Technology companies, at every stage.
Across our founder's career, 50+ technology companies have trusted this work — from first-time startups to some of the largest names in tech.
Early-stage startups
Get your first SOC 2 done right and unblock enterprise deals — without over-building.
Growth-stage & scale-ups
Mature your program as customers, frameworks, and scrutiny grow.
Enterprise & Big Tech
Specialized support for complex, high-stakes compliance environments.
Let's talk
Ready to put your risk in motion?
Reach out for a no-obligation conversation. We'll spend a few minutes on where you are today and what a clear path to audit-ready looks like.
- Emailthomas@kinesisrisk.com
- Phone(512) 996-4244
- OfficeAustin, TX · Serving clients nationwide