Matador Strategies LLC · Stafford, Virginia
Matador Strategies is an advisory and research firm built on operational counterintelligence experience and doctoral scholarship. We help leaders adopt artificial intelligence responsibly, position technology for federal and public sector markets, and understand the security problems that sit underneath both.
Every engagement starts with the same question: what decision are you actually trying to make, and what would you need to know to make it well. The frameworks, memoranda, policies, and training that come out of an engagement are instruments of that decision, not deliverables produced for their own sake.
Organizations are adopting artificial intelligence faster than they are governing it. We close that gap with policy, training, and honest assessment of what is already in use.
Product and engineering leaders need a translator between what their software does and what a government or regulated buyer requires. That translation is the work.
Two decades of counterintelligence practice applied to commercial and institutional problems, from insider risk to strategic competition.
Matador develops a small number of software and methodology products, each built because a consulting problem demanded it. Development status is stated plainly on every one.
Secure, resilient mesh communications for teams operating off grid, with an on-device language model assistant that never sends a query anywhere.
A counterintelligence research assistant that verifies its sources against live search rather than reciting them from training data.
Custom reasoning architectures built for a client's own workflow, delivered as an engagement. The underlying methodology is published as ConsiglAI.
The line under which Matador's analytical software tools are organized as they mature toward release.
Matador Publishing produces long-form work at the intersection of statecraft, counterintelligence, and political philosophy. The imprint is part of why the firm's analytical claims carry weight.
Twenty-six essays arguing that counterintelligence is the stewardship of a free civilization rather than a bureaucratic function. Written under the pen name Praesidius.
A history of war told through twelve cocktails. Co-authored with Logan Rogue and Andrew Rolander. Hardcover and paperback releasing together.
Commissioned and independent research, including a proposal for an intelligence and counterintelligence technology research laboratory at Texas Tech University.
Engagements range from a single policy document to a multi-month advisory relationship. The first conversation costs nothing and usually clarifies whether the problem is the one you thought it was.