Sph3r3 - Secure AI Advisory & Cybersecurity Strategy Consulting
Where AI Meets Your Best People
Secure by Design • Strategic Advisory • Built to Unlock
The Approach
Security Isn't a Feature.
It's the Foundation.
3 companies built • 9,000+ professionals trained • 25 years in critical infrastructure
Every engagement starts with listening—understanding your environment, your people, and the pressures you're actually facing. Only then does strategy take shape. Twenty years defending critical infrastructure taught me that intelligence without security isn't intelligence—it's liability. That principle holds whether it's AI for your operations team or power grids. But the right answer always starts with the right questions.
Track Record
Built. Scaled. Proven.
Encari
Co-Founded 2008
NERC CIP cybersecurity consulting for the North American bulk electric system. Acquired by PowerSecure / Southern Company.
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Of U.S. bulk power generation capacity represented by clients
Dragos Security
Co-Founded 2013
Co-developed CyberLens—the first passive OT protocol analyzer with a visual dashboard and asset discovery for industrial control systems.
CyberLens
First Passive OT Protocol Analyzer • Visual Dashboard
Cybati
Co-Founded 2011
CybatiWorks hands-on ICS/SCADA/IoT cybersecurity education platform. Used by universities, government, and enterprise worldwide.
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Professionals trained • 30+ institutions
Same founder. Same rigor. Now applied to your AI strategy.
The Founder
Matthew Luallen
Founder & Principal Advisor
Three-time co-founder with 25 years defending the systems civilization depends on. Built Encari (acquired by Southern Company), co-developed CyberLens at Dragos Security, and trained 9,000+ professionals through Cybati.
Now building the next generation of secure AI—and the people who use it.
Connect on LinkedInThree companies. The common thread: making the complex usable and the usable secure. Now every lesson applies wherever AI is moving fastest.
Everyone in your organization has something to teach AI—and something to learn from it.
Advisory Services
Secure AI. Every Domain.
Strategic guidance that builds your team's capacity to innovate with AI—not just deploy it. The same rigor that protects power grids now protects your growth.
Operations & Automation
Strategic guidance to automate workflows, optimize decisions, and scale operations with AI. Equip your teams to build secure, reliable systems from the ground up.
New Product Generation & Research
Turn research into revenue. I help teams identify where AI creates new product opportunities, validate concepts against real market conditions, and build secure prototypes fast.
Cyber-Physical Systems
Two decades defending the systems civilization depends on. Securing the convergence of operational technology and artificial intelligence — from assessment to architecture.
Product & Engineering
Strategic guidance for AI-powered products that are secure by design. Architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security frameworks that equip your engineers to ship fast and stay safe.
Education & Workforce
Your technology is only as strong as the people behind it. Training programs, capability assessments, and hands-on expertise that build real AI and security skills.
Inventors & Entrepreneurs
Whether you're pre-seed or preparing to pitch, I work directly with founders to turn bold ideas into buildable, fundable products. AI strategy, secure architecture, and the operational clarity to get from concept to prototype—fast. No team required to start.
Board & Investor Advisory
AI governance guidance for boards, audit committees, and investors. Due diligence on AI capabilities and risk posture, and portfolio AI risk assessment. The same rigor that secures critical infrastructure, applied to fiduciary oversight.
Aligned With
Direct engagement with the founder
What's Next
From Guidance to Groundwork
What happens when everyone becomes an inventor?
Every person carries something brilliant. Every business sits on untapped genius—buried in its people, its processes, its hard-won instincts. Most of it never gets out. We're building a way to change that.
An environment where anyone—technical or not—discovers the richness of what they already know, then uses AI to augment it in ways previously unimaginable. Ideas that once took years, built in weeks. Capabilities that once required entire teams, unlocked by one person with the right tools. Secured from the first line of code.
Powered by cyber-physical digital twins. Not a course. Not a toolkit. A new way to invent.
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Advisory clients get priority. Everyone else joins the line.
Your teams already have what it takes. Let's make sure AI keeps up.