Abuse Surface Mapping
- Identify where fraud, abuse, or misuse can emerge in your product
- Review core workflows, automation, thresholds, and assumptions
- Model how real users or automated actors could exploit “valid” behaviour
- Prioritise surfaces by likelihood and potential impact
- Provide a clear recommendation on what actually needs hardening
This is typically the entry point when something feels unsafe,
but it’s not yet clear where the real risk lies.
Trust Hardening Sprint
- Focus on a single, high-risk surface identified during mapping
- Simulate real-world abuse paths against live product flows
- Trace how harm propagates end-to-end through the system
- Implement guardrails, friction, rate limits, detection, and escalation
- Re-test until the abuse path is measurably closed
This is a fixed-scope, hands-on engineering sprint designed to
remove a specific class of abuse without breaking legitimate use.
Embedded Trust Engineer
- Ongoing, part-time involvement focused on trust-critical changes
- Review new features before launch for abuse and misuse risk
- Stress-test automation and AI behaviour as it evolves
- Adjust guardrails and thresholds as real-world behaviour changes
- Act as an adversarial counterpart inside the product team
This is used when teams are shipping frequently and want
continued protection without hiring internally.
Incident & Abuse Intervention
- Hands-on involvement during or immediately after an incident
- Reconstruct what actually happened and how abuse occurred
- Identify the real abuse path rather than surface symptoms
- Implement product-layer fixes that prevent a repeat
- Re-test to confirm the issue is genuinely closed
This is reserved for high-stakes situations where the cost of
getting it wrong is already material.