Your Business Is Being Squeezed From Both Sides.
Attackers exploit your security gaps while inefficiency drains your budget — and AI is accelerating both sides: spend is climbing while ungoverned tools widen the attack surface.
Get your Total Business Drag in one dollar figure: the number your CFO has been asking for.
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The Squeeze, Quantified
Unpatched controls, unverified backups, ungoverned AI tools
Manual handoffs, rework loops, tool sprawl, waiting on approvals
Your Output
Total Business Drag
One annual dollar figure — risk exposure plus efficiency waste — with the specific control gaps and process bottlenecks behind it.
Performance Metrics
Avg Annual Business Drag Identified
Time to Get Your Score
of Assessed Companies Land in Danger Zone or Sitting Duck
Headcount ROI After Handvantage Deployment
01 — The Problem
Two Different Experts. Neither Sees the Full Picture.
Security Firms
"You will be hacked."
They lock everything down — at the cost of slowing the business to a crawl. Operations grind. Revenue stalls. You're safe but paralyzed.
Management Consultants
"You are wasting money."
They streamline and automate — while expanding the attack surface with every new tool and integration. Fast, but exposed.
These are not separate problems. They are a single, compound liability — and it has a dollar value.
02 — The Viability Matrix
Where Does Your Business Live?
Select a quadrant to read the verdict.
03 — The Deliverable
5 Minutes. Full Exposure.
Here's exactly what you'll walk away with.
Your Exact Quadrant
Where you sit in the Viability Matrix — and what it means for survival.
Total Business Drag ($/yr)
The combined annual cost of risk exposure and operational waste.
Fortress Score
Your security maturity rating across 10 critical controls.
Factory Score
Your operational efficiency rating across 10 bottleneck indicators.
Strategic Roadmap
Prioritized steps to reach the Handvantage Standard.
Pentest Offer (If Warranted)
If your score warrants it, a scoped pentest proposal to validate findings.
Client Testimonials
120+
assessment runs completed
$500K–$2M+
typical Business Drag range
Consultant-reviewed
methodology
2 dimensions
scored: security + efficiency
“The Total Business Drag number did what three security decks couldn’t — it got our CFO to fund the remediation roadmap in one meeting.”
Chief Operating Officer
Professional services firm, 200+ staff
“We thought we were "secure but slow." The matrix showed exactly where the waste was and what it cost us per year. Brutal, but exactly what we needed.”
VP of Engineering
FinTech scale-up
Quotes shared with permission; roles and industries stated, names withheld on request.
04 — Who We Are
We Don't Fix Computers. We Fix the Business.
Handvantage is a security consultancy for organisations building with AI — a retained team that replaces $150K–$250K in cybersecurity headcount, secures your infrastructure, and automates your operations with governed AI, including Vantage Workspace, our sovereign self-hosted AI platform. Security that survives the audit; automation that pays for itself. Not a vendor. A partner.
MDR Coverage
Replaces $250K headcount
Average time to ROI
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